IP Library Granted Patent US 10,932,185
Granted Patent B2
US 10,932,185 · App. 16/060,401 · Granted Feb 23, 2021

Transmitter and receiver for master information block over physical broadcast channel

Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye (Fremont, CA); Hwan-Joon Kwon (Santa Clara, CA); Abhijeet Bhorkar (Fremont, CA); Jeongho Jeon (San Jose, CA); Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W48/16H03M13/09H04L1/0061H04L1/0068H04L5/0048H04L5/0053H04L27/0006H04W16/14H04J11/00
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Patent No.
US 10,932,185
App. No.
16/060,401
Granted
Feb 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a circuitry operable to generate a Master Information Block (MIB) for transmission on one or more Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs). The apparatus may also comprise a circuitry operable to map the MIB onto at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the PRBs outside of symbols 7, 8, 9 , and 10 . Transmission of the PRBs may be subject to an LBT procedure.

Claims (41)

1. An apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

one or more processors to:

generate a Master Information Block (MIB) for transmission on one or more Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) spanning a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols, the MIB carrying subframe index information and a set of most significant bits of system frame number (SFN) information, wherein a set of least significant bits of the SFN information is indicated via selection of a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) and a scrambling sequence associated with the MIB; and

map the MIB onto at least one OFDM symbol of the PRBs outside of symbols 7 , 8 , 9 , and 10 , wherein transmission of the PRBs is subject to a Listen Before Talk (LBT) procedure.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the subframe index information comprises a subframe offset from a start of a half radio frame.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the subframe index information comprises four bits.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the MIB comprises 28 bits plus a number of bits X, wherein X is an integer other than 12.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are to:

map the MIB onto OFDM symbols 4 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , and 11 of the PRBs.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a transceiver circuitry for at least one of:

generating transmissions, encoding transmissions, processing transmissions, or decoding transmissions.

7. Machine readable storage media having machine executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network to perform operations comprising:

generating a Master Information Block (MIB) for transmission on one or more Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) spanning a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols, the MIB carrying subframe index information and a set of most significant bits of system frame number (SFN) information, wherein a set of least significant bits of the SFN information is indicated via selection of a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) and a scrambling sequence associated with the MIB; and

mapping the MIB onto at least one OFDM symbol of the PRBs outside of symbols 7 , 8 , 9 , and 10 , wherein transmission of the PRBs is subject to a Listen Before Talk (LBT) procedure.

8. The machine readable storage media of claim 7 , wherein the subframe index information comprises a subframe offset from a start of a half radio frame.

9. The machine readable storage media of claim 7 , wherein the subframe index information comprises four bits.

10. The machine readable storage media of claim 7 , wherein the MIB comprises 28 bits plus a number of bits X, wherein X is an integer other than 12.

11. The machine readable storage media of claim 7 , the operations further comprising:

mapping the MIB onto OFDM symbols 4 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , and 11 of the PRBs.

12. The machine readable storage media of claim 7 , wherein the MIB carries a bandwidth indicator comprising one bit, the set of most significant bits of SFN information comprising eight bits, and a CRC field comprising 16 bits.

13. An apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with an Evolved Node-B (eNB) on a wireless network, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

one or more processors to:

process a Master Information Block (MIB) received on one or more Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) spanning a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols, the MIB carrying subframe index information and a set of most significant bits of system frame number (SFN) information, wherein a set of least significant bits of the SFN information is indicated via selection of a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) and a scrambling sequence associated with the MIB; and

de-map the MIB from at least one OFDM symbol of the PRBs outside of symbols 7 , 8 , 9 , and 10 , wherein the PRBs are received over an unlicensed spectrum.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the subframe index information comprises a subframe offset from a start of a half radio frame.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the subframe index information comprises four bits.

16. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the MIB comprises 28 bits plus a number of bits X, wherein X is an integer other than 12.

17. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are to:

de-map the MIB from OFDM symbols 4 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , and 11 of the PRBs.

18. The apparatus of claim 13 , further comprising a transceiver circuitry for at least one of:

generating transmissions, encoding transmissions, processing transmissions, or decoding transmissions.

19. Machine readable storage media having machine executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with an Evolved Node-B (eNB) on a wireless network to perform operations comprising:

processing a Master Information Block (MIB) received on Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) spanning a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols, the MIB carrying subframe index information and a set of most significant bits of system frame number (SFN) information, wherein a set of least significant bits of the SFN information is indicated via selection of a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) and a scrambling sequence associated with the MIB; and

de-mapping the MIB from at least one OFDM symbol of the PRBs outside of symbols 7 , 8 , 9 , and 10 , wherein the PRBs are received over an unlicensed spectrum.

20. The machine readable storage media of claim 19 , wherein the subframe index information comprises a subframe offset from a start of a half radio frame.

21. The machine readable storage media of claim 19 , wherein the subframe index information comprises four bits.

22. The machine readable storage media of claim 19 , wherein the MIB comprises 28 bits plus a number of bits X, wherein X is an integer other than 12.

23. The machine readable storage media of claim 19 , the operations further comprising: de-mapping the MIB from OFDM symbols 4 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , and 11 of the PRBs.

24. The machine readable storage media of claim 19 , wherein the MIB carries a bandwidth indicator comprising one bit, the set of most significant bits of SFN information comprising eight bits, and a CRC field comprising 16 bits.

Assignments (4)
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Aug 11, 2020
From: INTEL IP CORPORATION
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053455/0489 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 25, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 053065/0418 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 9, 2020
From: INTEL IP CORPORATION
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052883/0880 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 9, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 052883/0915 →