Frequency domain beam sweeping for synchronization signals

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12082134-B2
Application number	US-202117450404-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2021
Priority date	Oct 8, 2021
Publication date	Sep 3, 2024
Grant date	Sep 3, 2024

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit at least a first synchronization signal block (SSB) over a first sub-band in a first spatial direction and a second SSB over a second sub-band in a second spatial direction, wherein the at least the first SSB and the second SSB are transmitted at a same time and wherein the at least the first SSB and the second SSB comprise a set of SSBs, the at least first sub-band and the second sub-band comprise a first set of sub-bands, and the at least first spatial direction and the second spatial direction comprise a first set of spatial directions. Numerous other aspects are described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A base station for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors, coupled to the memory, configured to:
generate a signal using a frequency domain beam sweeping technique that is based at least in part on a set of beamforming weights and a set of time delays; and
transmit, via a transceiver, a first portion of the signal over a first sub-band in a first spatial direction and a second portion of the signal over a second sub-band in a second spatial direction, wherein:
the first portion of the signal and the second portion of the signal are transmitted at a same time,
the first portion of the signal comprises a first synchronization signal block (SSB),
the second portion of the signal comprises a second SSB,
the first SSB is associated with a first sub-band index of the first sub-band,
the second SSB is associated with a second sub-band index of the second sub-band,
the first SSB and the second SSB comprise a set of SSBs,
the first sub-band and the second sub-band comprise a first set of sub-bands, and
the first spatial direction and the second spatial direction comprise a first set of spatial directions.

2. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
receive, from one or more user equipments (UEs), a set of random access channel (RACH) messages at a same time, wherein at least two RACH messages of the set of RACH messages are received in different spatial directions.

3. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors, to transmit the set of SSBs, are configured to:
transmit, to a repeater device, a subset of SSBs of the set of SSBs in a spatial direction, included in the first set of spatial directions, associated with the repeater device and in a subset of sub-bands of the first set of sub-bands, wherein the subset of SSBs is to be forwarded by the repeater device over a second set of spatial directions.

4. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors, to transmit the set of SSBs, are configured to:
transmit, to a repeater device, an SSB of the set of SSBs in a spatial direction, included in the first set of spatial directions, associated with the repeater device, wherein a set of copies of the SSB are to be forwarded by the repeater device over a second set of spatial directions and a second set of sub-bands.

5. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors, to transmit the set of SSBs, are configured to:
transmit the set of SSBs in a first time domain resource allocation, wherein the set of SSBs is mapped to the first set of sub-bands in a first pattern; and
transmit the set of SSBs in a second time domain resource allocation, wherein the first set of SSBs is mapped to the first set of sub-bands in a second pattern.

6. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors, to transmit the set of SSBs, are configured to:
transmit a first subset of SSBs of the set of SSBs in a first time domain resource allocation, wherein the first subset of SSBs is associated with the first set of sub-bands and is directed in a first subset of spatial directions of the first set of spatial directions; and
transmit a second subset of SSBs of the set of SSBs in a second time domain resource allocation, wherein the second subset of SSBs is associated with the first set of sub-bands and is directed in a second subset of spatial directions of the first set of spatial directions.

7. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
transmit an indication of:
a time domain mapping for the set of SSBs,
a frequency domain mapping for the set of SSBs, or
a combination thereof.

8. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
transmit an indication of quasi co-location relationship information for SSBs included in the set of SSBs that are transmitted in a same spatial direction of the first set of spatial directions.

9. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
transmit, to a repeater device, an indication of a time domain resource allocation and a frequency domain resource allocation of an SSB, of the set of SSBs, associated with a spatial direction, included in the first set of spatial directions, towards the repeater device, wherein the indication of the time domain resource allocation and the frequency domain resource allocation includes an indication of at least one of:
a sub-band index of a sub-band associated with the SSB,
a time domain index associated with the SSB,
an SSB index associated with the SSB, or
any combination thereof.

10. A repeater device for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory;
a transceiver; and
one or more processors, coupled to the memory and the transceiver, configured to:
receive, via the transceiver, one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), associated with a frequency domain beam sweeping technique that is based at least in part on a set of beamforming weights and a set of time delays, to be forwarded by the repeater device; and
transmit, via the transceiver, a first portion of a signal associated with the one or more received SSBs over a first sub-band in a first spatial direction and a second portion of the signal over a second sub-band in a second spatial direction, wherein:
the first portion of the signal comprises a first SSB,
the second portion of the signal comprises a second SSB,
the first SSB is associated with a first sub-band index of the first sub-band,
the second SSB is associated with a second sub-band index of the second sub-band,
the first SSB and the second SSB comprise a set of SSBs,
the first sub-band and the second sub-band comprise a first set of sub-bands, and
the first spatial direction and the second spatial direction comprise a first set of spatial directions.

11. The repeater device of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors, to receive the one or more SSBs, are configured to:
receive the set of SSBs, to be forwarded by the repeater device, wherein SSBs included in the set of SSBs are received at a same time and using different frequency domain resources.

12. The repeater device of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors, to transmit the set of SSBs, are configured to:
transmit the set of SSBs using a frequency domain beam sweeping technique over the first set of spatial directions, wherein SSBs included in the set of SSBs are transmitted using different frequency domain resources and in different spatial directions.

13. The repeater device of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors, to transmit the set of SSBs, are configured to:
transmit the set of SSBs at a same time.

14. The repeater device of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
process a second signal associated with an SSB, of the one or more SSBs, to convert the second signal from a radio frequency (RF) signal to a baseband signal;
filter the baseband signal to isolate a baseband SSB;
generate a set of copies of the SSB associated with a set of frequency domain resources; and
process the set of copies of the baseband SSB to obtain the signal for the set of copies of the SSB.

15. The repeater device of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
receive an indication of a time domain resource allocation and a frequency domain resource allocation of an SSB, of the one or more SSBs, associated with a spatial direction, included in a second set of spatia

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Abedini Navid
• Li Junyi
• Cezanne Juergen
• Raghavan Vasanthan

Classifications

• H04W16/28

  using beam steering · CPC title

• H04W74/0841

  with collision treatment · CPC title

• H04W72/0453

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title

• H04W56/001 Primary

  Synchronization between nodes · CPC title

• H04W48/12 Primary

  using downlink control channel · CPC title