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Granted Patent B2
US 12,526,119 · App. 17/759,144 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Terminal and base station

Inventors: Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP); Tomoya Ohara (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L5/0094H04W16/14H04W74/0833
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Patent No.
US 12,526,119
App. No.
17/759,144
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal including a reception unit that receives configuration information in 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 configures at least one of a format of a random access preamble, a sequence of the random access preamble, a subcarrier spacing applied to a channel on which the random access preamble is to be transmitted, or a subcarrier spacing applied to an uplink shared channel, based on the configuration information.

Claims (33)

1 . A terminal comprising:

a controller configured to generate a random access preamble for a frequency band higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency in a radio communication system; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the random access preamble by using a preamble format,

wherein the frequency band is a frequency range from 52.5 GHz to 71 GHZ,

wherein the transmitter transmits capability information of the terminal, the capability information indicating a subcarrier spacing and a sequence length applicable to the random access preamble in the frequency range from 52.5 GHz to 71 GHZ,

wherein the subcarrier spacing is applied to the preamble format, and

wherein the controller is configured to generate the random access preamble based on the sequence length.

2 . The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the subcarrier spacing is a subcarrier spacing that is greater than or equal to 120 kHz.

3 . The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the subcarrier spacing includes a subcarrier spacing of 480 kHz.

4 . The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein an index of the sequence length is 139, 571, or 1151.

5 . A base station comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a terminal, information indicating a preamble format used for a transmission of a random access preamble in a frequency band higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency in a radio communication system; and

a receiver configured to receive the random access preamble that is transmitted from the terminal by using the preamble format in the frequency band higher than or equal to the predetermined frequency,

wherein the frequency band is a frequency range from 52.5 GHz to 71 GHz,

wherein the receiver receives capability information of the terminal, the capability information indicating a subcarrier spacing and a sequence length applicable to the random access preamble in the frequency range from 52.5 GHz to 71 GHZ,

wherein the subcarrier spacing is applied to the preamble format, and

wherein the random access preamble is generated based on the sequence length.

6 . A communication method executed by a terminal, the method comprising:

generating a random access preamble for a frequency band higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency in a radio communication system; and

transmitting the random access preamble by using a preamble format,

wherein the frequency band is a frequency range from 52.5 GHz to 71 GHZ,

wherein the terminal transmits capability information of the terminal, the capability information indicating a subcarrier spacing and a sequence length applicable to the random access preamble in the frequency range from 52.5 GHz to 71 GHZ,

wherein the subcarrier spacing is applied to the preamble format, and

wherein the generating generates the random access preamble based on the sequence length.

7 . A radio communication system comprising:

a base station configured to transmit information indicating a preamble format used for transmitting a random access preamble; and

a terminal configured to

generate a random access preamble for a frequency band higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency in a radio communication system; and

transmit the random access preamble by using a preamble format,

wherein the frequency band is a frequency range from 52.5 GHz to 71 GHz,

wherein the terminal is configured to transmit capability information of the terminal, the capability information indicating a subcarrier spacing and a sequence length applicable to the random access preamble in the frequency range from 52.5 GHz to 71 GHz,

wherein the subcarrier spacing is applied to the preamble format, and

wherein the terminal is configured to generate the random access preamble based on the sequence length.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 25, 2022
From: HARADA, HIROKI; OHARA, TOMOYA; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, JING
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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