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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Zte Wistron Telecom Ab, Stockholm, SE;
Thorsten Schier, Stockholm, SE;
Patrick Svedman, Stockholm, SE;
Aijun Cao, Stockholm, SE;
Yonghong Gao, Stockholm, SE;
Jan Johansson, Norrfjärden, SE;
Bojidar Hadjiski, Stockholm, SE;
ZTE Wistron Telecom AB, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
In a heterogeneous network deployment that includes a macro base station and one or more low power nodes, a discovery signal is transmitted to facilitate the identification of low power nodes. The discovery signal is transmitted on a selected subset of resource elements, previously unused, to maintain backward compatibility with legacy user equipment. The transmission sequence and/or the locations of resource elements used for transmitting the discovery signal can identify the low power node to a user equipment.