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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2018
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, San Diego, CA (US);
Chirag Sureshbhai Patel, San Diego, CA (US);
Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US);
Tamer Kadous, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may configure bursts of synchronization signal (SS) blocks for discovery reference signal (DRS) transmission. The base station may transmit an SS block set in an SS burst according to a beam sweep pattern, which may be repeated for a subsequent SS block set. The base station may configure a number of SS block sets in each SS burst and transmit each SS block in an SS block set using a different beam. Each SS burst may be transmitted according to a different beam sweep pattern and the base station may repeat transmission of SS bursts according to a DRS repetition periodicity. A user equipment (UE) may sweep through antenna sub-arrays during reception of an SS burst to determine a suitable sub-array for communication.