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Granted Patent B2
US 12,193,034 · App. 17/793,305 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Terminal and base station

Inventors: Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP); Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/30
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Patent No.
US 12,193,034
App. No.
17/793,305
Granted
Jan 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal includes a reception unit that receives a synchronization signal block in an unlicensed band of a high frequency band higher than or equal to a frequency band of a frequency range 2 (FR2), the FR2 being in a range including a frequency range 1 (FR1) that is a low frequency band and the FR2 that is a high frequency band in a new radio (NR) system; and a control unit that identifies an index of a candidate position for transmitting the synchronization signal block based on a sequence of a demodulation reference signal of a broadcast channel included in the synchronization signal block and a payload of the broadcast channel.

Claims (21)

1. A terminal of a radio communication system for performing communication in a first frequency band and a second frequency band, the second frequency band being higher than the first frequency band, the terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives first configuration information and second configuration information, wherein the first configuration information includes a Quasi co-location, QCL, parameter for a reception of a synchronization signal block in the second frequency band, the QCL parameter being selected from among a first number of candidates for the QCL parameter, the first number being less than a second number of candidates for another QCL parameter to be used in the first frequency band, and wherein the second configuration information allows to configure a second discovery burst transmission window for the reception of the synchronization signal block in the second frequency band such that a maximum value and a minimum value of a length of the second discovery burst transmission window are less than a maximum value and a minimum value of a length of a first discovery burst transmission window in the first frequency band, respectively, and that granularity to set the length of the second discovery burst transmission window is finer than granularity to set the length of the first discovery burst transmission window in the first frequency band; and

a controller that sets the QCL parameter based on the first configuration information and that sets the length of the second discovery burst transmission window based on the second configuration information,

wherein the receiver assumes that a number of the synchronization signal blocks to be received within the second discovery burst transmission window is less than a value of the QCL parameter set by the controller.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the receiver receives the QCL parameter transmitted in a subCarrierSpacingCommon in a Master Information Block, MIB.

3. A base station of a radio communication system for performing communication in a first frequency band and a second frequency band, the second frequency band being higher than the first frequency band, the base station comprising:

a transmitter that transmits first configuration information and second configuration information, wherein the first configuration information includes a Quasi co-location, QCL, parameter for a reception of a synchronization signal block in the second frequency band, the QCL parameter being selected from among a first number of candidates for the QCL parameter, the first number being less than a second number of candidates for another QCL parameter to be used in the first frequency band, and wherein the second configuration information allows to configure a second discovery burst transmission window for the reception of the synchronization signal block in the second frequency band such that a maximum value and a minimum value of a length of the second discovery burst transmission window are less than a maximum value and a minimum value of a length of a first discovery burst transmission window in the first frequency band, respectively, and that granularity to set the length of the second discovery burst transmission window is finer than granularity to set the length of the first discovery burst transmission window in the first frequency band; and

a controller that sets the QCL parameter based on the first configuration information and that sets the length of the second discovery burst transmission window based on the second configuration information,

wherein the transmitter transmits a number of the synchronization signal blocks within the second discovery burst transmission window, the number of the synchronization signal blocks transmitted within the second discovery burst transmission window being less than a value of the QCL parameter set by the controller.

4. A communication system for performing communication in a first frequency band and a second frequency band, the second frequency band being higher than the first frequency band, comprising:

a base station comprising:

a transmitter that transmits first configuration information and second configuration information, wherein the first configuration information includes a Quasi co-location, QCL, parameter for a reception of a synchronization signal block in the second frequency band, the QCL parameter being selected from among a first number of candidates for the QCL parameter, the first number being less than a second number of candidates for another QCL parameter to be used in the first frequency band, and wherein the second configuration information allows to configure a second discovery burst transmission window for the reception of the synchronization signal block in the second frequency band such that a maximum value and a minimum value of a length of the second discovery burst transmission window are less than a maximum value and a minimum value of a length of a first discovery burst transmission window in the first frequency band, respectively, and that granularity to set the length of the second discovery burst transmission window is finer than granularity to set the length of the first discovery burst transmission window in the first frequency band; and

a controller that sets the QCL parameter based on the first configuration information and that sets the length of the second discovery burst transmission window based on the second configuration information,

wherein the transmitter transmits a number of the synchronization signal blocks within the second discovery burst transmission window, the number of the synchronization signal blocks transmitted within the second discovery burst transmission window being less than a value of the QCL parameter set by the controller; and

a terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives the first configuration information and the second configuration information,

wherein the receiver assumes that the number of the synchronization signal blocks to be received within the second discovery burst transmission window is less than the value of the QCL parameter set by the controller.

5. A communication method executed by a terminal of a radio communication system for performing communication in a first frequency band and a second frequency band, the second frequency band being higher than the first frequency band, the terminal comprising:

receiving first configuration information and second configuration information, wherein the first configuration information includes a Quasi co-location, QCL, parameter for a reception of a synchronization signal block in the second frequency band, the QCL parameter being selected from among a first number of candidates for the QCL parameter, the first number being less than a second number of candidates for another QCL parameter to be used in the first frequency band, and wherein the second configuration information allows to configure a second discovery burst transmission window for the reception of the synchronization signal block in the second frequency band such that a maximum value and a minimum value of a length of the second discovery burst transmission window are less than a maximum value and a minimum value of a length of a first discovery burst transmission window in the first frequency band, respectively, and that granularity to set the length of the second discovery burst transmission window is finer than granularity to set the length of the first discovery burst transmission window in the first frequency band; and

setting the QCL parameter based on the first configuration information and setting the length of the second discovery burst transmission window based on the second configuration information,

wherein the receiving assumes that a number of the synchronization signal blocks to be received within the second discovery burst transmission window is less than a value of the QCL parameter set by the setting.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2022
From: HARADA, HIROKI; KURITA, DAISUKE; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, JING
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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