IP Library › Granted Patent US 10,631,341
Granted Patent B2
US 10,631,341 · App. 16/065,443 · Granted Apr 21, 2020

Method and user equipment for transmitting random access channel signal, and method and base station for receiving random access channel signal

Inventors: Eunsun Kim (Seoul, KR); Hyunsoo Ko (Seoul, KR); Kijun Kim (Seoul, KR); Sukhyon Yoon (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04W74/0833H04L27/2607H04L27/2692H04W74/002
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Patent No.
US 10,631,341
App. No.
16/065,443
Granted
Apr 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user equipment in a wireless communication system receives RACH configuration information including preamble format information indicating a first format and transmits a RACH preamble with the first format. The RACH preamble with the first format includes a cyclic prefix (CP) part and a sequence part in a time domain. The RACH preamble with the first format satisfies: a CP length of the RACH preamble of the first format is N times a CP length N CP of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, where N is the number of OFDM symbols used to transmit a RACH preamble and is greater than 1.

Claims (56)

1. A method of transmitting a random access channel (RACH) preamble by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving information on a configuration including preamble format information indicating a first format for the RACH preamble; and

transmitting the RACH preamble in N orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols based on the first format for the RACH preamble,

wherein the first format for the RACH preamble includes only a cyclic prefix (CP) part and a sequence part in a time domain, and

wherein the first format for the RACH preamble satisfies:

a length of the CP part is equal to N*N CP , where N is greater than 1 and N CP is a CP length of an OFDM symbol, and

the length of the CP part plus a length of the sequence part is equal to a total length of the N OFDM symbols.

2. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the length of the CP part is N*144*T s and the length of the sequence part is N*2048*T s , where T s is a sampling time.

3. The method according to claim 2 ,

wherein 144*T s is equal to N CP and 2048*T s is equal to a length of a data part per OFDM symbol.

4. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein N is 2, 4, or 6.

5. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sequence part includes a preamble sequence with a sequence length of 139 N times.

6. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the information on the configuration further includes information on a slot used for a RACH,

wherein when the preamble format information indicates a combination of the first format and a second format, the user equipment transmits the RACH preamble with the first format in a RACH resource associated with a synchronization signal (SS) block detected by the user equipment among RACH resources of the slot if the associated RACH resource is not a last RACH resource of the slot in the time domain and transmits a RACH preamble with the second format in the associated RACH resource if the associated RACH resource is the last RACH resource of the slot, and

wherein the second format includes a guard time with no signal after a sequence part of the second format.

7. A user equipment for transmitting a random access channel (RACH) preamble in a wireless communication system, the user equipment comprising,

a transceiver, and

a processor configured to control the transceiver, the processor configured to:

control the transceiver to receive information on a configuration including preamble format information indicating a first format for the RACH preamble; and

control the transceiver to transmit the RACH preamble in N orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols based on the first format for the RACH preamble,

wherein the first format for the RACH preamble includes only a cyclic prefix (CP) part and a sequence part in a time domain, and

wherein the first format for the RACH preamble satisfies:

a length of the CP part is equal to N*N CP , where N is greater than 1 and N CP is a CP length of an OFDM symbol, and

the length of the CP part plus a length of the sequence part is equal to a total length of the N OFDM symbols.

8. The user equipment according to claim 7 ,

wherein the length of the CP part is N*144*T s and the length of the sequence part is N*2048*T s , where T s is a sampling time.

9. The user equipment according to claim 7 ,

wherein the information on the configuration further includes information on a slot used for a RACH,

wherein when the preamble format information indicates a combination of the first format and a second format, the processor controls the transceiver to transmit the RACH preamble with the first format in a RACH resource associated with a synchronization signal (SS) block detected by the user equipment among RACH resources of the slot if the associated RACH resource is not a last RACH resource of the slot in the time domain and controls the transceiver to transmit a RACH preamble with the second format in the associated RACH resource if the associated RACH resource is the last RACH resource of the slot, and

the second format includes a guard time with no signal after a sequence part of the second format.

10. A method of receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting information on a configuration including preamble format information indicating a first format for the RACH preamble; and

detecting the RACH preamble in N orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols based on the first format for the RACH preamble,

wherein the first format for the RACH preamble includes only a cyclic prefix (CP) part and a sequence part in a time domain, and

wherein the first format for the RACH preamble satisfies:

a length of the CP part is equal to N*N CP , where N is greater than 1 and N CP is a CP length of an OFDM symbol, and

the length of the CP part plus a length of the sequence part is equal to a total length of the N OFDM symbols.

11. The method according to claim 10 ,

wherein the length of the CP part is N*144*T s and the length of the sequence part is N*2048*T s , where T s is a sampling time.

12. The method according to claim 10 ,

wherein the sequence part includes a preamble sequence with a sequence length of 139 N times.

13. A base station for receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising,

a transceiver, and

a processor configured to control the transceiver, the processor configured to:

control the transceiver to transmit information on a configuration including preamble format information indicating a first format for the RACH format; and

detect the RACH preamble in N orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols based on the first format for the RACH preamble,

wherein the first format for the RACH preamble includes only a cyclic prefix (CP) part and a sequence part in a time domain, and

wherein the first format for the RACH preamble satisfies:

a length of the CP part is equal to N*N CP , where N is greater than 1 and N CP is a CP length of an OFDM symbol, and

the length of the CP part plus a length of the sequence part is equal to a total length of the N OFDM symbols.

14. The base station according to claim 13 ,

wherein the length of the CP part is N*144*T s and the length of the sequence part is N*2048*T s , where T s is a sampling time.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2018
From: KIM, EUNSUN; KO, HYUNSOO; KIM, KIJUN; YOON, SUKHYON
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (5)
Provisional Application 62501086 · May 3, 2017
Provisional Application 62507752 · May 17, 2017
Provisional Application 62517198 · Jun 9, 2017
Provisional Application 62535941 · Jul 23, 2017
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