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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US);
Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US);
Michael Mao Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Base stations (such as small cells) may support active and dormant states. To facilitate state transitions, these cells may transmit discovery signals. The transmission design of both discovery signals and network synchronization signals from small cells should provide for regular periodicity, while supporting the benefit of transitioning between active and dormant states. Disclosed is a method, a computer program product, and an apparatus that determine a first reference signal for at least one of discovery or measurement, and a second reference signal for synchronization, where both the first reference signal and the second reference signal are based on a same type of reference signal.