Improving physical random-access channel (PRACH) robustness against interference

    公开(公告)号:US11930538B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US17276308

    申请日:2019-09-02

    IPC分类号: H04W74/08 H04L5/14

    摘要: Embodiments include methods, performed by a network node, for configuring a physical random-access channel (PRACH) of a cell in a time-division-duplexed (TDD) radio access network (RAN). The methods include determining an increase in a level of remote interference in the cell and, in response to determining the increase, selecting a first PRACH configuration from a first subset of available PRACH configurations. The first subset of available PRACH configurations can be more robust against remote interference than a second subset of the available PRACH configurations, and the first subset can be exclusive of the second subset. The methods also include transmitting, to one or more user equipment (UEs) first information indicating that the first PRACH configuration should be used for accessing the cell via the PRACH. Embodiments also include complementary methods performed by UEs, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform such methods.

    Method and device for two-step random accessing

    公开(公告)号:US11632805B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-18

    申请号:US17231399

    申请日:2021-04-15

    摘要: A method and device for two-step random accessing. The method includes transmitting a random access preamble and a data block on a time-frequency resource to a network device; and receiving a response message for the random accessing from the network device. The data block is encoded with an orthogonal cover code and/or a cyclic shift, and the data block comprises data information and a reference signal associated with the data information. Therefore, resource efficiency is improved significantly for an associated data message following a random access preamble with endurable minor performance degradation.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING BEAMFORMING OPERATIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20230098741A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17881671

    申请日:2022-08-05

    IPC分类号: H04W16/28 H04B7/06 H04W8/24

    摘要: A wireless communication device transmits beam sweeping information that indicates a beam sweeping property of the device, and a network node in an associated wireless communication network configures transmission or reception beamforming with respect to the device at one or more Transmission/Reception (TRPs) in the network, based on the beamforming property. Among the various advantages flowing from configuring network-side beamforming for the device in view of the beamforming property, the network need not configure its beamforming operations according to worst-case or minimum-capability assumptions for the device, and, instead tailors its transmission or reception beamforming in dependence on the beamforming property of the device.