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Granted Patent B2
US 11,510,072 · App. 17/192,930 · Granted Nov 22, 2022

Base station that transmits system information based on beam information and user equipment

Inventors: Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, GB); Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, GB); Shinichiro Tsuda (Basingstoke, GB); Brian Alexander Martin (Basingstoke, GB)
Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
H04W16/28H04B7/0617H04W4/025H04W36/00835H04W64/003H04W72/005H04W72/046H04W72/1263H04W88/02H04B7/022
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Patent No.
US 11,510,072
App. No.
17/192,930
Granted
Nov 22, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system is described. The mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has a circuitry which is configured to transmit system information based on beam information.

Claims (22)

1. Circuitry for a base station configured to emit a plurality of beams, wherein the circuitry is configured to:

obtain geolocation information of a user equipment to receive data from the base station; and

transmit system information based on beam information including a type of beamforming configured in accordance with geolocation information of the user equipment or with a predetermined type of beamforming when geolocation information is not obtained.

2. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the system information includes the beam information.

3. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the beam information further includes coverage information of a beam of the plurality of beams.

4. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the beam information further includes line of sight information.

5. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the beam information identifies a beam of the plurality of beams.

6. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the geolocation of the user equipment is obtained by receiving the geolocation information from the user equipment.

7. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the geolocation information of the user equipment is obtained by measurement of a reference signal received from the user equipment.

8. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit the scheduling information based on the obtained geolocation information, the scheduling information indicating a broadcast schedule for a specific beam.

9. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit the system information for a specific beam to the user equipment, the user equipment being in a radio resource control connected state.

10. The circuitry of claim 9 , wherein the circuitry transmits the system information upon receipt of the geolocation information of the user equipment.

11. The circuitry of claim 9 , wherein the beam information includes information about the specific beam and other beams of the plurality of beams.

12. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit neighboring cell list information indicating neighboring cells.

13. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is for an anchor base station of a mobile telecommunications system including at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell associated with the anchor cell, wherein communication in the mobile telecommunications system is distributed at least over a control plane and a user plane, wherein signaling is communicated over the control plane and user data are communicated over the user plane, and wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit the system information over the control plane and the user plane.

14. The circuitry of claim 13 , wherein the at least one anchor cell is a control plane cell and the at least one slave cell is a user plane cell.

15. The circuitry of claim 13 , wherein the beam information identifies a beam of the anchor cell.

16. The circuitry of claim 15 , wherein the beam information includes information about beam coverage of the identified beam of the anchor cell.

17. The circuitry of claim 16 , wherein the beam information identifies a beam of the at least one slave cell.

18. The circuitry of claim 17 , wherein the beam information includes information about the beam coverage of the identified beam of the at least one slave cell.

19. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to communicate with the user equipment and at least one slave cell base station.

20. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein, on condition that the predetermined type of beamforming is random beamforming or sweeping beamforming.

Priority Claims (1)
EP 16177187 · Jun 30, 2016 · regional
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16313217
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