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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Wolfgang Zirwas, Munich, DE;

Rakash Sivasivaganesan, Unterhaching, DE;

Berthold Panzner, Holzkirchen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01); H04B 7/0417 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04B 7/0417 (2013.01); H04B 7/0619 (2013.01); H04L 25/0226 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); Y02D 70/10 (2018.01); Y02D 70/12 (2018.01); Y02D 70/1262 (2018.01); Y02D 70/444 (2018.01);
Abstract

A radio network sub-tiles reference signals (RSs) within a set of resource elements (REs) such that each sub-tiled RS occupies less than a time and/or frequency and/or power extent of its respective RE. The set of REs are dispersed across both frequency bins and time slots according to a pre-defined grid; and transmitted. The user equipment (UE) uses that pre-defined grid to locate within that transmission the set of dispersed REs. The UE accumulates and combines at least one subset of the sub-tiled RSs and estimates therefrom a quality; then reports uplink an indication of that estimated quality. Examples of the RSs include channel state information RSs, beam RSs and beam refinement RSs. Advantages are particularly relevant for 5G new radio systems.


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