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US 12,250,649 · App. 17/791,098 · Granted Mar 11, 2025

Terminal and base station for synchronization signal block transmission based on an odd/even system frame number (SFN) configuration

Inventors: Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W56/001H04L5/0051H04W36/0007H04W72/30H04L67/1076H04W36/22H04W72/04
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Patent No.
US 12,250,649
App. No.
17/791,098
Granted
Mar 11, 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, based on the received synchronization signal block, an index of a candidate position for a transmission corresponding to the received synchronization signal block, from among candidate positions for transmitting a synchronization signal block, the number of the candidate positions being greater than a predetermined number.

Claims (14)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver 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 processor that identifies, based on the received synchronization signal block, an index of a candidate position for a transmission corresponding to the received synchronization signal block, from among candidate positions for transmitting a synchronization signal block, the number of the candidate positions being greater than a predetermined number,

wherein the processor determines that a radio frame in which the synchronization signal block is to be transmitted is only a radio frame with an even system frame number or only a radio frame with an odd system frame number, and identifies a portion of information indicating the index of the candidate position for the transmission based on a value corresponding to the portion of the information indicating the index of the candidate position for the transmission, the value being set in a field assumed to be used for notifying a system frame number of a radio frame in which the synchronization signal block is to be received.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor

determines that a half frame in which the synchronization signal block is to be transmitted is only a first half frame or only a latter half frame, and

identifies a portion of information indicating the index of the candidate position for the transmission based on a value corresponding to the portion of the information indicating the index of the candidate position for the transmission,

the value being set in a field assumed to be used for notifying an index of a half frame in which the synchronization signal block is to be received.

3. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor identifies a portion of information indicating the index of the candidate position for the transmission based on a frequency resource used for a demodulation reference signal for a broadcast channel,

the broadcast channel being included in the received synchronization signal block.

4. A base station comprising:

a processor that configures a synchronization signal block, the synchronization signal block including information for identifying an index of a candidate position for a transmission from among candidate positions for transmitting a synchronization signal block, the number of the candidate positions being greater than a predetermined number, wherein the synchronization signal block is to be transmitted 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 transmitter that transmits the configured synchronization signal block,

wherein the processor determines that a radio frame in which the synchronization signal block is to be transmitted is only a radio frame with an even system frame number or only a radio frame with an odd system frame number, and the transmitter transmits a portion of information indicating the index of the candidate position for the transmission based on a value corresponding to the portion of the information indicating the index of the candidate position for the transmission, the value being set in a field assumed to be used for notifying a system frame number of a radio frame in which the synchronization signal block is to be transmitted.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2022
From: HARADA, HIROKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, JING
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230029702A1 · Feb 2, 2023
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