Method for accessing millimeter wave cell in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor

1. A method for a user equipment to access a millimeter wave cell in a wireless communication system supporting millimeter wave (mmWave), the method comprising:

receiving a mmWave connection configuration message repeatedly including first information about a waveform of a discovery signal for each of mmWave cells, second information about transmission timing of the discovery signal for each of the mmWave cells, and third information about a length of the discovery signal for each of the mmWave cells, from a legacy cell which is different from the mmWave cells and is radio resource control (RRC) connected to the user equipment;

performing autocorrelation a total of N×M times based on the waveform of the discovery signal specific to each of the mmWave cells;

detecting a value of a peak that is maximized among the N×M autocorrelations;

selecting a beamforming direction and a mmWave cell corresponding to the maximized value of the peak; and

transmitting a first type random access preamble to the selected mmWave cell,

wherein the waveform of the discovery signal and the length of the discovery signal are configured to be specific to each of the mmWave cells,

wherein a frame of the selected mmWave cell starts at a second point that is offset from a first point in which the value of the peak is maximized,

wherein a size of the offset is (N−m)×τ,

wherein ‘N’ indicates a number of the mmWave cells, ‘M’ indicates beamforming resolution of the discovery signals, ‘m’ indicates a number of times the discovery signal is repeatedly transmitted until the value of the peak is maximized, and ‘τ’ indicates the length of the discovery signal in the mmWave connection configuration message.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the mmWave cell to which the first type random access preamble is transmitted comprises the mmWave cell corresponding to the maximized value of the peak.

3. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the mmWave cells belong to a timing advance group (TAG) of the user equipment and

wherein the mmWave cells in the TAG transmit the discovery signals through different waveforms and different frequency resources.

4. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the mmWave connection configuration message includes a mmWave discovery measurement timing configuration (DMTC) indicating a measurement periodicity and a measurement duration of the discovery signals and

wherein the measurement periodicity and the measurement duration indicated by the mmWave DMTC are configured to be smaller than a measurement periodicity and a measurement duration indicated by a legacy DMTC, respectively.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

performing a primary timing advance (TA) correction based on a response to the first type random access preamble; and

transmitting a second type random access preamble to the mmWave cell based on an uplink synchronization timing which is corrected by the primary TA correction.

6. A user equipment supporting millimeter wave (mmWave), the user equipment comprising:

a receiver to receive a mmWave connection configuration message repeatedly including first information about a waveform of a discovery signal for each of mmWave cells, second information about transmission timing of the discovery signal for each of the mmWave cells, and third information about a length of the discovery signal for each of the mmWave cells, from a legacy cell which is different from the mmWave cells and is radio resource control (RRC) connected to the user equipment;

a processor to perform autocorrelation a total of N×M times based on the waveform of the discovery signal specific to each of the mmWave cells, detect a value of a peak that is maximized among the N×M autocorrelations, and select a beamforming direction and a mmWave cell corresponding to the maximized value of the peak; and

a transmitter to transmit a first type random access preamble to the selected mmWave cell,

wherein the waveform of the discovery signal and the length of the discovery signal are configured to be specific to each of the mmWave cells,

wherein a frame of the selected mmWave cell starts at a second point that is offset from a first point in which the value of the peak is maximized,

wherein a size of the offset is (N−m) 33 τ,

wherein ‘N’ indicates a number of the mmWave cells, ‘M’ indicates beamforming resolution of the discovery signals, ‘m’ indicates a number of times the discovery signal is repeatedly transmitted until the value of the peak is maximized, and ‘τ’ indicates the length of the discovery signal in the mmWave connection configuration message.

7. The user equipment of claim 6 , wherein the mmWave cell to which the first type random access preamble is transmitted comprises the mmWave cell corresponding to the maximized value of the peak.

8. The user equipment of claim 6 ,

wherein the mmWave cells belong to a timing advance group (TAG) of the user equipment and

wherein the mmWave cells in the TAG transmit the discovery signals through different waveforms and different frequency resources.

9. The user equipment of claim 6 , wherein the mmWave connection configuration message includes a mmWave discovery measurement timing configuration (DMTC) indicating a measurement periodicity and a measurement duration of the discovery signals and

wherein the measurement periodicity and the measurement duration indicated by the mmWave DMTC are configured to be smaller than a measurement periodicity and a measurement duration indicated by a legacy DMTC, respectively.

10. The user equipment of claim 6 ,

wherein the processor performs a primary timing advance (TA) correction based on a response to the first type random access preamble and

wherein the transmitter transmits a second type random access preamble to the mmWave cell based on an uplink synchronization timing which is corrected by the primary TA correction.