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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2018
Applicant:
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 11/00 (2006.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 11/0073 (2013.01); H04J 11/0076 (2013.01); H04J 11/0079 (2013.01); H04J 11/0089 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 88/085 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one aspect of the present invention, a base station includes an index generation unit configured to generate an index indicating a time-domain location of a synchronization signal block where a synchronization signal or a physical broadcast channel is placed; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a portion of the index using one or more synchronization signal of a primary synchronization signal, a secondary synchronization signal, and a tertiary synchronization signal and transmit a remaining portion of the index using the physical broadcast channel.