IP Library Granted Patent US 12707292
Granted Patent B2
US 12707292 · App. 18/626,292 · Granted Aug 11, 2026

On demand system information block 1 configurations

Inventors: Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego, CA); Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego, CA); Changhwan Park (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W24/02H04W56/0015H04W72/0453H04W72/232H04W74/0833H04W76/20
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12707292
App. No.
18/626,292
Filed
Apr 3, 2024
Granted
Aug 11, 2026
Kind
B2
Examiner
DUONG, DUC T
Art Unit
2467
USPC
370/329
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for on demand system information block 1 (OD-SIB1) transmission in non-anchor cells. A method includes receiving, in a first anchor cell of a first network entity, a first configuration for an OD-SIB1 procedure in a non-anchor cell, wherein the first configuration is common to a first plurality of non-anchor cells supporting OD-SIB1 transmission; sending, in a first non-anchor cell of the first plurality of non-anchor cells, a request to send an OD-SIB1 based at least in part on the first configuration; and receiving, in the first non-anchor cell, the OD-SIB1 based at least in part on the first configuration.

Claims (75)

1 . An apparatus configured for wireless communications, comprising:

one or more memories; and

one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors being configured to cause the apparatus to:

receive, in a first anchor cell of a first network entity, a first configuration for an on demand system information block 1 (OD-SIB1) procedure in a non-anchor cell, wherein the first configuration is common to a first plurality of non-anchor cells supporting OD-SIB1 transmission;

send, in a first non-anchor cell of the first plurality of non-anchor cells, a request to send an OD-SIB1 based at least in part on the first configuration; and

receive, in the first non-anchor cell, the OD-SIB1 based at least in part on the first configuration.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of non-anchor cells, including the first non-anchor cell, correspond to a same frequency.

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

a first coverage area associated with each of the first plurality of non-anchor cells overlaps a second coverage area associated with the first anchor cell, and

the second coverage area covers a geographic location of the apparatus.

4 . The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein:

the one or more processors are configured to cause the apparatus to receive, in a second anchor cell, a second configuration for the OD-SIB1 procedure in the non-anchor cell based at least in part on a relocation of the apparatus from within the second coverage area to within a third coverage area associated with the second anchor cell,

the second configuration is common to a second plurality of non-anchor cells supporting OD-SIB1 transmission, and

a fourth coverage area associated with each of the second plurality of non-anchor cells overlaps the third coverage area associated with the second anchor cell.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein first coverage areas associated with the first plurality of non-anchor cells overlap second coverage areas associated with a first plurality of anchor cells, including the first anchor cell.

6 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein each of the first plurality of anchor cells is associated with a same first cell group, comprising:

an OD-SIB1 anchor cell group;

a paging cell group; or

a cell group associated with a first tracking area.

7 . The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the apparatus to:

receive, in a second anchor cell associated with a second cell group, a second configuration for the OD-SIB1 procedure in the non-anchor cell based at least in part on a relocation of the apparatus from within one of the second coverage areas to within a third coverage area associated with the second anchor cell.

8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first configuration comprises at least one of:

a second configuration associated with synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) reception in the first plurality of non-anchor cells;

a third configuration for sending one or more OD-SIB1 requests, including the request to send the OD-SIB1;

a fourth configuration for receiving one or more OD-SIB1s, including the OD-SIB1; or

a fifth configuration for sending hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) or negative ACK (NACK) feedback in response to the one or more OD-SIB1s.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the OD-SIB1 comprises a unicast transmission, and

the first configuration comprises:

an indication of a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) to use for performing an OD-SIB1 reception; and

one or more occasions configured for receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling one or more OD-SIB1s during the OD-SIB1 reception, including the OD-SIB1.

10 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first configuration comprises one or more parameters associated with SSBs received in the first plurality of non-anchor cells.

11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the OD-SIB1 comprises a unicast transmission or a broadcast transmission, and

the one or more processors are configured to cause the apparatus to receive, in the first non-anchor cell, an SSB comprising an indication of at least one of:

a downlink BWP to use for performing an OD-SIB1 reception; or

one or more occasions configured for receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling one or more OD-SIB1s during the OD-SIB1 reception, including the OD-SIB1.

12 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first configuration comprises:

an indication of an uplink bandwidth part (BWP) to use for performing a RACH procedure for sending OD-SIB1 requests;

a plurality of RACH occasions (ROs) configured for sending the OD-SIB1 requests during the RACH procedure, including the request to send the OD-SIB1; and

one or more parameters for the RACH procedure.

13 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the first configuration further comprises:

a plurality of SSB occasions configured for receiving a set of SSBs in one or more SSB bursts in the first plurality of non-anchor cells; and

a mapping between the plurality of SSB occasions and the plurality of ROs.

14 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein to send, in the first non-anchor cell, the request to send the OD-SIB1, the one or more processors are configured to cause the apparatus to send the request via a random access preamble used to initiate the RACH procedure.

15 . The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein:

the one or more parameters for the RACH procedure comprise a configured physical RACH (PRACH) root sequence index, and

a root sequence index of the random access preamble is based at least in part on the configured PRACH root sequence index parameter and a cell identifier of the first non-anchor cell; or

the one or more parameters for the RACH procedure comprise a configured random access preamble index parameter, and

a preamble index of the random access preamble is based at least in part on the configured random access preamble index parameter and a cell identifier of the first non-anchor cell; or

the one or more parameters for the RACH procedure comprise one or more configured frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) parameters, and

a starting frequency of a resource used for sending the random access preamble is based at least in part on the one or more configured FDRA parameters and a cell identifier of the first non-anchor cell.

16 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the one or more processors are configured to cause the apparatus to:

receive, in the first non-anchor cell, an SSB comprising a master information block (MIB) with a cell barred field set to barred; and

ignore the cell barred field set to barred, and

the one or more processors are configured to cause the apparatus to send the request to send the OD-SIB1 based at least in part on ignoring the cell barred field.

17 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the OD-SIB1 comprises a cell barred field set to not barred, and

the one or more processors are configured to cause the apparatus to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the first network entity in the first non-anchor cell.

18 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:

the OD-SIB1 comprises a cell barred field set to barred, and

the one or more processors are configured to cause the apparatus to:

receive an indication to establish an RRC connection with the first network entity; and

refrain from establishing the RRC connection with the first network entity in the first non-anchor cell based at least in part on the OD-SIB1 comprising the cell barred field set to barred.

19 . An apparatus configured for wireless communications, comprising:

one or more memories; and

one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors being configured to cause the apparatus to:

send, in a first anchor cell of the apparatus, a first configuration for an on demand system information block 1 (OD-SIB1) procedure in a non-anchor cell, wherein the first configuration is common to a first plurality of non-anchor cells supporting OD-SIB1 transmission;

receive, in a first non-anchor cell of the first plurality of non-anchor cells and associated with the apparatus, a request to send an OD-SIB1 based at least in part on the first configuration; and

send, in the first non-anchor cell, the OD-SIB1 based at least in part on the first configuration.

20 . A method for wireless communications by an apparatus comprising:

receiving, in a first anchor cell of a first network entity, a first configuration for an on demand system information block 1 (OD-SIB1) procedure in a non-anchor cell, wherein the first configuration is common to a first plurality of non-anchor cells supporting OD-SIB1 transmission;

sending, in a first non-anchor cell of the first plurality of non-anchor cells, a request to send an OD-SIB1 based at least in part on the first configuration; and

receiving, in the first non-anchor cell, the OD-SIB1 based at least in part on the first configuration.