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US 2014/0177562 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for implementing new carrier type (nct) in a wireless communication system
AssigneeInnovative Sonic Limited
InventorMing-Che Li
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for implementing New Carrier Type (NCT) are disclosed. The method includes including a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) for a standalone NCT in part of DL (Downlink) bandwidth, wherein bandwidth for the PDCCH is indicated in a MIB (Master Information Block) field. In one embodiment, the method includes demodulating the PDCCH using the reduced CRS within the indicated bandwidth for the PDCCH.
Claims20
A method for implementing New Carrier Type (NCT), comprising:
- including a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) for a standalone NCT located in part of DL (Downlink) bandwidth, wherein bandwidth for the PDCCH is indicated in a MIB (Master Information Block) field.
A method for implementing New Carrier Type (NCT), comprising:
- decoding the transmitted scrambled sequence of bits to derive a cell type information.
A method for implementing New Carrier Type (NCT), comprising:
- detecting a physical layer cell identity based on the defined mapping between NID(1) and the indices (m1,m0), wherein the mapping is defined such that for a given physical layer identity group the mapping for a standalone NCT would be different than a mapping for backward-compatible carrier;
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- determining a cell type information based on the mapping between NID(1) and the indices (m1,m0).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.