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Granted Patent B2
US 11,191,043 · App. 16/609,707 · Granted Nov 30, 2021

User terminal and radio communication method

Inventors: Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP); Daiki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W56/0005H04W24/10H04W48/10H04W56/0015H04W56/005
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Patent No.
US 11,191,043
App. No.
16/609,707
Granted
Nov 30, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives a synchronization signal block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel, and a processor that, if specified information is notified to the terminal, derives, based on a timing of a serving cell, a synchronization signal block index for another cell. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is also disclosed.

Claims (21)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives a synchronization signal block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel; and

a processor that, when information that indicates whether a neighbor cell is synchronized with a serving cell is notified from a base station to the terminal, derives, based on a timing of the serving cell, a synchronization signal block index of a synchronization signal block transmitted by the neighbor cell.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein, when the information is notified to the terminal, the processor does not decode the broadcast channel that is included in the synchronization signal block of the neighbor cell for a purpose of obtaining timing information of the synchronization signal block of the neighbor cell.

3. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein, when the processor does not decode the broadcast channel that is included in the synchronization signal block of the neighbor cell, the processor applies a radio resource measurement (RRM) requirement that is different to a RRM requirement for when the processor decodes the broadcast channel that is included in the synchronization signal block of the neighbor cell.

4. The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein when the processor decodes the broadcast channel that is included in the synchronization signal block of the neighbor cell, the processor applies an RRM requirement that is more relaxed than the RRM requirement for when the processor does not decode the broadcast channel that is included in the synchronization signal block of the neighbor cell.

5. The terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the RRM requirement applied by the processor is a requirement for a measurement.

6. A radio communication method for a terminal comprising:

receiving a synchronization signal block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel; and

when information that indicates whether a neighbor cell is synchronized with a serving cell is notified from a base station to the terminal, deriving, based on a timing of the serving cell, a synchronization signal block index of a synchronization signal block transmitted by the neighbor cell.

7. The terminal according to claim 4 , wherein the RRM requirement applied by the processor is a requirement for a measurement.

8. A base station comprising:

a transmitter that transmits a synchronization signal block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel; and

a processor that performs a control to transmit, to a terminal, information that indicates whether a neighbor cell is synchronized with a serving cell to make the terminal derive a synchronization signal block index of a synchronization signal block transmitted by the neighbor cell based on a timing of the serving cell.

9. A system comprising:

a terminal that comprises:

a receiver that receives a synchronization signal block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel; and

a first processor that, when information that indicates whether a neighbor cell is synchronized with a serving cell is notified from a base station to the terminal, derives, based on a timing of the serving cell, a synchronization signal block index of a synchronization signal block transmitted by the neighbor cell; and

a base station that comprises:

a transmitter that transmits the synchronization signal block; and

a second processor that performs a control to transmit, to the terminal, the information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 13, 2020
From: HARADA, HIROKI; TAKEDA, DAIKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, JING
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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