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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2023
Dish Wireless L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
Mehdi Alasti, Reston, VA (US);
Siddhartha Chenumolu, Broadlands, VA (US);
Mariam Sorond, Reston, VA (US);
DISH Wireless L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for non-terrestrial network beam switching is provided. A non-terrestrial network base station includes a transmitter configured to transmit downlink data to user equipment and a receiver configured to receive uplink data from the user equipment. A channel bandwidth of the non-terrestrial network base station is divided into a plurality of bandwidth parts respectively corresponding to a plurality of geographic areas, and each bandwidth part is respectively associated with a satellite beam. When the user equipment is located in a first geographic area, the transmitter transmits the downlink data to the user equipment over a corresponding first bandwidth part. After the user equipment transitions from the first geographic area to a second geographic area, the transmitter transmits the downlink data to the user equipment over a corresponding second bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts.