Reporting a synchronization signal block configuration to a control unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12323931-B2
Application number	US-202117360811-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2021
Priority date	Aug 19, 2020
Publication date	Jun 3, 2025
Grant date	Jun 3, 2025

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station distributed unit (DU) may configure a report that identifies a transmission timing within a radio frame for transmission of one or more cell-defining synchronization signal blocks (CD-SSBs) in a serving cell of the base station DU. The base station DU may transmit the report to a base station control unit. Numerous other aspects are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a base station distributed unit (DU), comprising:
configuring a report for transmission to a base station control unit (CU) that identifies a transmission timing within a radio frame for transmission of one or more cell-defining synchronization signal blocks (CD-SSBs) in a serving cell of the base station DU;
receiving, from the base station CU and in response to the report, an indication that radio resources for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs in a serving cell of the base station DU are allocated as available for use by the base station DU; and
receiving, from the base station CU, a timing configuration that is based at least in part on the transmission timing within the radio frame for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs of the report.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the report identifies a half radio frame, within the radio frame, in which the base station DU is to transmit the one or more CD-SSBs.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the report identifies a half radio frame, within a period of one or more half radio frames, in which the base station DU is to transmit the one or more CD-SSBs.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the timing configuration comprises:
receiving the timing configuration from the base station CU on a backhaul link via an F1 application protocol (F1-AP) signaling interface or another type of backhaul signaling interface.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting the report to the base station CU in served-cell information associated with the serving cell.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting the report to the base station CU in system information associated with the serving cell.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the report includes a plurality of bits identifying a system frame number associated with the radio frame; and
wherein the transmission timing is indicated by another bit in the report.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the timing configuration indicates time-domain resources that at least partially overlap with the transmission timing for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs.

9. A method of wireless communication performed by a base station control unit (CU), comprising:
receiving a report from a base station distributed unit (DU) on a backhaul link;
identifying, based at least in part on the report, a transmission timing within a radio frame for transmission of one or more cell-defining synchronization signal blocks (CD-SSBs) in a serving cell of the base station DU;
transmitting, in response to the report, an indication to the base station DU that radio resources for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs in a serving cell of the base station DU are allocated as available for use by the base station DU; and
transmitting, to the base station DU, a timing configuration that is based at least in part on the transmission timing within the radio frame for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs of the report, wherein the timing configuration indicates time-domain resources that at least partially overlap with the transmission timing for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs in a serving cell of the base station DU.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the report identifies a half radio frame, within the radio frame, in which the base station DU is to transmit the one or more CD-SSBs.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the report identifies a half radio frame, within a period of one or more half radio frames, in which the base station DU is to transmit the one or more CD-SSBs.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein receiving the report comprises:
receiving the report from the base station DU on an F1 application protocol (F1-AP) signaling interface.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein receiving the report comprises:
receiving the report from the base station DU in served-cell information associated with the serving cell.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein receiving the report comprises:
receiving the report from the base station DU in system information associated with the serving cell.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the report includes a plurality of bits identifying a system frame number associated with the radio frame; and
wherein the transmission timing is indicated by another bit in the report.

16. The method of claim 9 , wherein the report includes a first subset of bits identifying a system frame number associated with the radio frame;
wherein a second subset of bits identifying the system frame number are included in a master information block (MIB) associated with the serving cell; and
wherein the transmission timing is indicated by another bit in the report.

17. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
configuring at least one of a radio resource management (RRM) configuration or an interference measurement configuration for at least one of a user equipment (UE), a base station mobile terminal (MT), or another base station DU based at least in part on the transmission timing.

18. A base station distributed unit (DU) for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to:
configure a report for transmission to a base station control unit (CU) that identifies a transmission timing within a radio frame for transmission of one or more cell-defining synchronization signal blocks (CD-SSBs) in a serving cell of the base station DU;
receive, from the base station CU and in response to the report, an indication that radio resources for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs in a serving cell of the base station DU are allocated as available for use by the base station DU; and
receiving, from the base station CU, a timing configuration that is based at least in part on the transmission timing within the radio frame for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs of the report.

19. The base station DU of claim 18 , wherein the report includes a first subset of bits identifying a system frame number associated with the radio frame;
wherein a second subset of bits identifying the system frame number are included in a master information block (MIB) associated with the serving cell; and
wherein the transmission timing is indicated by another bit in the report.

20. The base station DU of claim 18 , wherein the transmission timing is indicated in the report by one or more bits; and
wherein a quantity of the one or more bits is based at least in part on a transmission periodicity of the one or more CD-SSBs.

21. The base station DU of claim 20 , wherein the transmission periodicity comprises one half radio frame that occurs every radio frame; and
wherein the half radio frame is identified by a single bit in the report.

22. The base station DU of claim 18 , wherein the timing configuration comprises a synchronization signal block timing configuration (STC) that is based at least in part on the report, the STC indicating time-domain resources that at least partially overlap with the transmission timing for transmission of the one or more CD-SSBs.

23. A base station control unit (CU) for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to:
receive a report from a base station distributed unit (DU) on a backhaul link;
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Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Akl Naeem
• Abedini Navid
• Luo Jianghong
• Hampel Karl Georg
• Blessent Luca
• Li Junyi
• Luo Tao

Classifications

• H04W72/541

  using the level of interference · CPC title

• H04W24/10

  Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title

• H04W88/085

  Access point devices with remote components · CPC title

• H04W56/001 Primary

  Synchronization between nodes · CPC title