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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
May. 11, 2021
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
This disclosure presents solutions for allowing a transmitter of multicast broadcast services (MBS) to select a mapping algorithm for mapping synchronization signal block (SSB) beams to slots with PDCCH monitoring occasions (MOs) of a multicast control channel (MCCH) window duration. The transmitter can be a communication node. In some example embodiments, the transmitter can receive assistance information from one or more UEs and utilize that assistance information to determining the mapping algorithm to utilize. The transmitter can determine whether across MCCH window duration mapping is enabled or disabled. The transmitter can determine the pattern of repetition of SSB beams when there are more slots with PDCCH MOs in the MCCH window duration than there are SSB beams in a set of SSB beams where each SSB beam has at least one UE interested at MBS. The SSB beam mapping can be communicated to MBS receivers, allowing them to optimize operations by listening to their respective appropriate monitoring occasions.