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Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 17, 2019
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Ki-young Kim, Hwaseong-si, KR;

Kyung-hwan Lee, Hwaseong-si, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01);
Abstract

A method of operating a terminal is provided. The method includes: selecting a first pattern as a pattern of a reception beam; searching for cells in the wireless communication system using the reception beam of the first pattern; determining a first candidate group including at least one candidate for a beam pattern pair with the first pattern of the reception beam, wherein each of the at least one candidate corresponds to a transmission beam pattern and a cell; determining whether to decode a physical broadcast channel received from a first candidate of the first candidate group; decoding the PBCH based on the determining; and selecting one of the transmission beam patterns for the beam pattern pair with the first pattern of the reception beam from the first candidate group based on the decoding.


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