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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Yung-Soo Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and a device for cell searching by a terminal and a base station in a beamforming cellular communication system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for performing cell discovery by a base station of a serving cell in a cellular communication system comprises the steps of receiving information about a beamforming capability of each of all of terminals in a cell, determining whether a cell discovery time needs to be expanded based on the received information about the beamforming capability per terminal, and transmitting group information about the cell discovery to a terminal needing the cell discovery time to be expanded.