IP Library Granted Patent US 11,510,239
Granted Patent B2
US 11,510,239 · App. 16/993,769 · Granted Nov 22, 2022

Random access procedures

Inventors: Ali Cirik (Herndon, VA); Esmael Dinan (McLean, VA); Yunjung Yi (Vienna, VA); Hua Zhou (Herndon, VA); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Kyungmin Park (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
H04W74/008H04B7/0608H04L5/0023H04L5/0053H04W74/0833
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Patent No.
US 11,510,239
App. No.
16/993,769
Granted
Nov 22, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A base station and/or a wireless device may perform a random access procedure. A downlink transmission for initiating a random access procedure may indicate an antenna panel for transmission of a random access preamble. A slot for transmission of the random access panel, from the wireless device, may be determined based on an antenna panel activation delay.

Claims (55)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device:

an indication to initiate a random access procedure; and

an indication of an antenna panel for the random access procedure;

activating the antenna panel for the random access procedure;

determining, based on an antenna panel activation delay, a slot for transmission of a random access preamble associated with the random access procedure; and

transmitting, in the slot and via the activated antenna panel, the random access preamble.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving one or more configuration parameters, wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate associations between one or more random access preamble indexes and a plurality of antenna panels at the wireless device,

wherein the receiving the indication of the antenna panel comprises receiving a random access preamble index associated with the antenna panel.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

based on the receiving the indication to initiate the random access procedure, switching from a first active uplink bandwidth part (BWP) to a second active uplink BWP.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the slot for the transmission of the random access preamble is further based on a bandwidth part (BWP) switching delay.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving the indication to initiate the random access procedure comprises receiving, via a second antenna panel different from the antenna panel, the indication to initiate the random access procedure.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving one or more configuration parameters, wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate associations between one or more reference signal indexes and a plurality of antenna panels at the wireless device,

wherein the receiving the indication of the antenna panel comprises receiving a reference signal index associated with the antenna panel.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving the indication to initiate the random access procedure and the indication of the antenna panel comprises receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order comprising the indication to initiate the random access procedure and the indication of the antenna panel.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the slot is based on determining a time duration between the receiving the indication to initiate the random access procedure and the transmitting the random access preamble, wherein the time duration is based on at least one of a sum or a maximum of:

the antenna panel activation delay; and

a bandwidth part (BWP) switching delay.

9. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device via a first antenna panel, one or more indications to initiate a random access procedure via a second antenna panel, wherein the second antenna panel is in a deactivated state;

determining, based on an antenna panel activation delay, a slot for transmission of a random access preamble associated with the random access procedure;

activating the second antenna panel for the random access procedure; and

transmitting, in the slot and via the second antenna panel, the random access preamble.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the receiving the one or more indications comprises receiving the one or more indications via a control resource set (CORESET) associated with an uplink reference signal.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

based on the receiving the one or more indications, switching from a first active uplink bandwidth part (BWP) to a second active uplink BWP.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determining the slot for the transmission of the random access preamble is further based on a bandwidth part (BWP) switching delay.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

receiving one or more configuration parameters, wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate associations between one or more random access preamble indexes and a plurality of antenna panels at the wireless device,

wherein the one or more indications comprise a random access preamble index associated with the second antenna panel.

14. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

receiving one or more configuration parameters, wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate associations between one or more reference signal indexes and a plurality of antenna panels at the wireless device,

wherein the one or more indications comprise a reference signal index associated with the second antenna panel.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the receiving the one or more indications comprises receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order comprising the one or more indications.

16. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, one or more configuration parameters, wherein the configuration parameters indicate an association between a random access preamble index and an antenna panel;

receiving one or more indications to initiate a random access procedure, wherein the one or more indications comprise the random access preamble index;

based on the one or more indications:

switching from a first active uplink bandwidth part (BWP) to a second active uplink BWP; and

determining the antenna panel associated with the random access preamble index;

determining, based on an antenna panel activation delay and a BWP switching delay, a time duration between the receiving the one or more indications and transmission of a random access preamble; and

transmitting, in a slot based on the time duration, the random access preamble.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the one or more indications comprise at least one of:

a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set index;

a reference signal index; or

a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) index.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the random access preamble is indicated by the random access preamble index.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the time duration is based on at least one of a sum or a maximum of:

the antenna panel activation delay; and

the BWP switching delay.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising:

determining the slot by determining an available slot that is after the time duration.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2021
From: CIRIK, ALI; DINAN, ESMAEL; YI, YUNJUNG; ZHOU, HUA; BABAEI, ALIREZA; PARK, KYUNGMIN
To: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 058334/0449 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2021
From: CIRIK, ALI; DINAN, ESMAEL; YI, YUNJUNG; ZHOU, HUA; BABAEI, ALIREZA; PARK, KYUNGMIN
To: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 058334/0486 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62886465 · Aug 14, 2019
Related Publication 20210051710A1 · Feb 18, 2021
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