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US 11,265,830 · App. 16/321,604 · Granted Mar 1, 2022

Strong and reliable 5G new radio communication method and device therefor

Inventors: Seunghoon Park (Seoul, KR); Jungmin Moon (Suwon-si, KR); Byounghoon Jung (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H04W56/001H04W48/08
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Patent No.
US 11,265,830
App. No.
16/321,604
Granted
Mar 1, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. Provided are a terminal operation method in a wireless communication system and a device for performing the same, the method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: monitoring a synchronization signal transmitted by a base station, on the basis of a synchronization resource section; receiving the synchronization signal on the basis of the synchronization signal monitoring; and accessing the base station on the basis of the synchronization acquired from the synchronization signal, wherein the synchronization resource section of the synchronization signal transmission cycle comprises a plurality of synchronization signal transmission time points.

Claims (47)

1. A method performed by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

monitoring a synchronization signal transmitted by a base station based on a synchronization resource interval;

receiving the synchronization signal based on the monitoring of the synchronization signal; and

accessing the base station based on synchronization obtained from the synchronization signal,

wherein the synchronization resource interval of synchronization signal transmission periodicity comprises a plurality of symbols for synchronization signal transmission,

wherein, in case that, the synchronization resource interval and a BCH resource interval have been configured together, BCH resource transmission timing is determined based on success timing of the synchronization signal transmission, and

wherein, in case that the synchronization resource interval and the BCH resource interval have not been configured together, the BCH resource transmission timing is determined based on listen before talk (LBT) success timing in the BCH resource interval after the success of the synchronization signal transmission.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user equipment identifies reference synchronization timing of the plurality of symbols for synchronization signal transmission based on synchronization signal ID information included in the received synchronization signal or transmission timing information included in the BCH signal.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the synchronization resource interval comprises at least two non-contiguous sub-intervals.

4. A user equipment, comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals; and

a controller configured to:

receive, from a base station, a broadcast channel (BCH) signal comprising system information,

monitor a synchronization signal transmitted by the base station based on a synchronization resource interval,

receive the synchronization signal based on the monitoring of the synchronization signal, and

access the base station based on synchronization obtained from the synchronization signal,

wherein the synchronization resource interval of synchronization signal transmission periodicity comprises a plurality of symbols for synchronization signal transmission,

wherein, in case that, the synchronization resource interval and a BCH resource interval have been configured together, BCH resource transmission timing is determined based on success timing of the synchronization signal transmission, and

wherein, in case that the synchronization resource interval and the BCH resource interval have not been configured together, the BCH resource transmission timing is determined based on listen before talk (LBT) success timing in the BCH resource interval after the success of the synchronization signal transmission.

5. The user equipment of claim 4 , wherein the controller is configured to identify reference synchronization timing of the plurality of symbols for synchronization signal transmission based on synchronization signal ID information included in the received synchronization signal or transmission timing information included in a broadcast channel (BCH) signal.

6. The user equipment of claim 4 , wherein the synchronization resource interval comprises at least two non-contiguous sub-intervals.

7. A method performed by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring a synchronization resource interval for transmitting a synchronization signal;

performing listen before talk (LBT) based on the synchronization resource interval;

transmitting the synchronization signal in the synchronization resource interval based on a result of the execution of the LBT; and

transmitting a broadcast channel (BCH) signal comprising system information,

wherein the synchronization resource interval of synchronization signal transmission periodicity comprises a plurality of symbols for synchronization signal transmission,

wherein, in case that, the synchronization resource interval and a BCH resource interval have been configured together, BCH resource transmission timing is determined based on success timing of the synchronization signal transmission, and

wherein, in case that the synchronization resource interval and the BCH resource interval have not been configured together, the BCH resource transmission timing is determined based on LBT success timing in the BCH resource interval after the success of the synchronization signal transmission.

8. The method of claim 7 ,

wherein the synchronization signal comprises synchronization signal ID information, and

wherein the synchronization signal ID information is used to identify reference synchronization timing of the plurality of symbols for synchronization signal transmission.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the synchronization resource interval comprises at least two non-contiguous sub-intervals.

10. A base station, comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals; and

a controller configured to:

configure a synchronization resource interval for transmitting a synchronization signal,

perform listen before talk (LBT) based on the synchronization resource interval, and

transmit the synchronization signal in the synchronization resource interval based on a result of the execution of the LBT, and

transmit a broadcast channel (BCH) signal comprising system information,

wherein the synchronization resource interval of synchronization signal transmission periodicity comprises a plurality of symbols for synchronization signal transmission,

wherein, in case that, the synchronization resource interval and a BCH resource interval have been configured together, BCH resource transmission timing is determined based on success timing of the synchronization signal transmission, and

wherein, in case that the synchronization resource interval and the BCH resource interval have not been configured together, the BCH resource transmission timing is determined based on LBT success timing in the BCH resource interval after the success of the synchronization signal transmission.

11. The base station of claim 10 ,

wherein the synchronization signal comprises synchronization signal ID information, and

wherein the synchronization signal ID information is used to identify reference synchronization timing of the plurality of symbols for synchronization signal transmission timings.

12. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the synchronization resource interval comprises at least two non-contiguous sub-intervals.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2019
From: PARK, SEUNGHOON; MOON, JUNGMIN; JUNG, BYOUNGHOON
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 048167/0471 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62373620 · Aug 11, 2016
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