Cell information transmission method and user apparatus in mobile communications system
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorsMikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Yasuhiro Kato
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Abstract
A method of transmitting cell information is disclosed. The method includes the steps of transmitting a primary broadcast channel at constant intervals in a cell of a mobile communications system; broadcasting, in the primary broadcast channel, scheduling information indicating a location of a first scheduling unit, including information to be broadcast in the cell; and broadcasting, in the first scheduling unit, information indicating whether the cell is a dominant cell or a subordinate cell.
Claims9
A method of transmitting cell information, comprising the steps of:
- transmitting a primary broadcast channel at constant intervals in a cell of a mobile communications system;
- broadcasting, in the primary broadcast channel, scheduling information indicating a location of a first scheduling unit, including information to be broadcast in the cell;
- and
- broadcasting, in the first scheduling unit, information indicating whether the cell is a dominant cell or a subordinate cell.
A user apparatus, comprising:
- a transmitter and receiver which receives a primary broadcast channel from a cell of a mobile communications system and which further receives a first scheduling unit specified in the primary broadcast channel;
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- a cell determining unit which analyzes the first scheduling unit and determines whether the cell is a dominant cell or a subordinate cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.