Allocating uplink power of user equipment between implementations of multiple radio access technologies in a fifth generation (5g) or other next generation network

Abstract

The technologies described herein are generally directed to modeling radio wave propagation in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, for a network application, identifying, by a system comprising a processor, a user equipment communicatively coupled to base station equipment via a first network connection implementing a first radio access technology and a second network connection implementing a second radio access technology. The method can further include identifying, by the system, performance characteristics of the first network connection and the second network connection. Further, the method can include, based on the first performance characteristic and the second performance characteristic, facilitating, by the system, allocating, to the user equipment, power for uplink transmission by the first network connection and the second network connection, resulting in an uplink power allocation.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method, comprising:
 facilitating, by a user equipment comprising a processor, establishing, with base station equipment,
 a first network connection using a first radio access technology, and 
 a second network connection using a second radio access technology different from the first radio access technology, wherein first power for the first network connection and second power for the second network connection are controlled by a first power allocation, wherein the first power and the second power are allocated from power to be provided for uplink transmission; and 
   receiving, by the user equipment, from the base station equipment, an indication to change control of the first power and the second power from the first power allocation to a second power allocation, wherein the indication was generated based on an analysis of a first performance characteristic of the first network connection and a second performance characteristic of the second network connection.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the first performance characteristic has been communicated by the user equipment for a determination of the second power allocation. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the first performance characteristic comprises a ratio of signal to noise associated with the first network connection. 
     
     
         4 . A system, comprising:
 a processor; and   a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 identifying a user equipment communicatively coupled to base station equipment via a first network connection implementing a first radio access technology and a second network connection implementing a second radio access technology different from the first radio access technology, 
 identifying a first performance characteristic of the first network connection and a second performance characteristic of the second network connection, and 
 based on an analysis of the first performance characteristic and the second performance characteristic, sending, to the user equipment, an indication to change a first power for first uplink transmission by the first network connection and a second power for second uplink transmission by the second network connection, resulting in an uplink power allocation, wherein an uplink power allocation allocates the first power and the second power from a power source for the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission. 
   
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the analysis comprises determining the uplink power allocation based on a value corresponding to a bandwidth of the first network connection. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the analysis comprises determining the uplink power allocation based on a value corresponding to a subcarrier spacing of the first network connection. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the first performance characteristic comprises a duration of a channel coherence cycle of the first network connection. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the analysis comprises determining a present allocation for an upcoming channel coherence cycle, and wherein the present allocation is allocated based on a past allocation of a previous channel coherence cycle prior to the upcoming channel coherence cycle. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 8 , wherein the analysis is a function of at least one variable of variables comprising a first variable representative of the past allocation, a second variable representative of the first performance characteristic, and a third variable representative of the second performance characteristic. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the first performance characteristic comprises a first ratio of signal to interference plus noise of the first network connection. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise, based on the first ratio, estimating a spectral efficiency of the first network connection, resulting in an estimated spectral efficiency, and wherein the first performance characteristic further comprises the estimated spectral efficiency. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the first performance characteristic comprises a cell uplink utilization of the first network connection. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the analysis comprises determining the uplink power allocation based on the uplink power allocation that was established at a time that the first performance characteristic was measured. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the sending comprises communicating the indication to the base station equipment. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the analysis is based on a selected aggregated data rate, for the first network connection and the second network connection, that has been estimated to result from the uplink power allocation. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein implementing the first radio access technology comprises implementing at least a fifth generation communication network protocol. 
     
     
         17 . A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a first network device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
 establishing, with a second network device,
 a first network connection using a first radio access technology, and 
 a second network connection using a second radio access technology different from the first radio access technology, wherein first power for the first network connection and second power for the second network connection are allocated according to a first power allocation, wherein the first power and the second power are allocated from a power source; and 
   receiving from the second network device, an indication to change the first power allocation to a second power allocation, wherein the indication was generated based on an analysis of a first performance characteristic of the first network connection and a second performance characteristic of the second network connection.   
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 17 , wherein the first performance characteristic has been communicated by the first network device for a determination of the second power allocation. 
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 17 , wherein the first performance characteristic comprises a ratio of signal to noise associated with the first network connection. 
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory machine-readable medium of  claim 17 , wherein the first performance characteristic comprises a cell uplink utilization of the first network connection.