TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING RANDOM ACCESS TRANSMISSIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20200252967A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-06

    申请号:US16752484

    申请日:2020-01-24

    摘要: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Examples may include receiving, at a user equipment (UE) a random access channel (RACH) configuration message from a base station, where the message indicates a channel metric (e.g., received signal strength indicator (RSSI), reference signal received power (RSRP), reference signal received quality (RSRQ), a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), or the like) and a threshold associated with the channel metric. The, UE may measure a reference signal (e.g., synchronization signal block (SSB), channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), or the like) and select a RACH procedure based on comparing the measured channel metric to the threshold. For example, the UE may select a two-step RACH procedure if the measured channel metric satisfies the threshold specified in the configuration. In some cases, the UE may select a RACH procedure or a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure based on a QoS parameter.

    Random access retransmission procedure

    公开(公告)号:US10708953B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US15391425

    申请日:2016-12-27

    IPC分类号: H04W74/08 H04W72/12 H04L1/08

    摘要: Aspects of the disclosure relate to improvements in random access procedures within a wireless communication network. To increase the likelihood that a user equipment (UE) will properly decode a random access response message from a base station, the base station may retransmit the random access response message one or more times. The number of retransmissions may be fixed or may be variable depending on whether the base station is able to receive or successfully decode a subsequently transmitted uplink message.

    Communication of uplink control information

    公开(公告)号:US10708111B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US16301423

    申请日:2017-02-14

    摘要: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to communicating random access information and uplink control information. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) or other suitable apparatus transmits physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) information concurrently with random access channel (RACH) information transmitted by another UE or other apparatus. For example, the RACH access information and the PUCCH information may be frequency division multiplexed orthogonal tones. The disclosure relates in some aspects to using downlink-uplink (DL-UL) channel reciprocity to determine symbol and/or tone locations. For example, a base station or other suitable apparatus may initially sweep across different directions in different time slots to transmit signals during a synchronization sub-frame. A UE or other suitable apparatus can then find an appropriate RACH symbol from its best synchronization beam index and transmit PUCCH information in those symbols.

    RACH transmission using multiple ports

    公开(公告)号:US10693605B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-23

    申请号:US15690820

    申请日:2017-08-30

    摘要: A RACH preamble is transmitted from a UE using multiple antenna ports. A UE splits a data stream containing a RACH preamble into multiple streams corresponding to a same number of antenna ports of the UE. The UE multiplexes the copies of the RACH preamble according to a multiplexing scheme that enables a receiving eNB to discern the different channels used to transmit the signal from the different antenna ports. A RACH procedure is further accomplished in two steps instead of four by the UE then splitting a RACH payload to the same number of streams and multiplexing the RACH payload for transmission to the eNB. The eNB receives both transmissions, and may use the RACH preamble as a reference signal, and responds with a combined message with control information, random access response, and contention resolution information.

    Multiple timers for request to send and clear to send communications

    公开(公告)号:US10674540B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-02

    申请号:US16184825

    申请日:2018-11-08

    IPC分类号: H04W74/08 H04W76/10 H04W24/08

    摘要: Techniques for procedures using request to send/clear to send (RTS/CTS) procedures and multiple timers are described. A RTS/CTS procedure using multiple timers may use a first timer and a second timer. The first timer may be associated with a duration to transmit and receive a request to send (RTS) message and a clear to send (CTS) message. The second timer may be associated with a duration to transmit a data message. A network device may transmit a RTS message to request communication resources to transmit data. If the CTS message is not received prior to the expiration of the first timer, neighboring network devices may determine that the communication resources were not allocated and may attempt to request the newly available resources. If a CTS message is received, the network device may communicate the second timer data to the neighboring network devices in a variety of ways.

    Synchronization signal for a broadcast channel

    公开(公告)号:US10560910B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-11

    申请号:US15926884

    申请日:2018-03-20

    摘要: An apparatus is provided for wireless communication at a base station with improved PBCH construction and decoding. The base station apparatus constructs a PBCH payload, wherein a bit location is selected for encoding a plurality of bits of the PBCH based on an estimated reliability for the corresponding bits location wherein the plurality of bits comprises frozen bits, unknown bits that are unknown to a user equipment, and potentially known bits that are potentially known by the user equipment. The apparatus transmits the PBCH payload in at least one of a plurality of SS blocks. A UE receiving the PBCH decodes the PBCH based on a successive decoding order. The successive decoding order may be based on an estimated reliability for the corresponding bits, e.g., in which potentially known bits are decoded prior to unknown bits.

    Non-uniform transmission of synchronization signals

    公开(公告)号:US10548100B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-28

    申请号:US15462629

    申请日:2017-03-17

    摘要: The base station that is configured to transmit in a beamformed manner may set different transmission rates for different directions of the beams. During an initial access stage, the base station may set different transmission rates for different transmission directions, and may transmit initial access signals based on the transmission rates in the different transmission directions The apparatus may be a base station. The base station determines transmission rates for a plurality of transmission directions, where each transmission rate is determined for a respective transmission direction of the plurality of transmission directions. The base station transmits at least one initial access signal in each of one or more of the plurality of transmission directions based on a corresponding transmission rate of the transmission rates.