Method and apparatus for mapping beam pattern to paging resources
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsBasuki PRIYANTO, Anders BERGGREN
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Abstract
Paging for a base station (12) operating in a wireless communication system and using multiple transmit beams includes transmitting a synchronization signal burst set by a beam sweep according to a first beam pattern. The base station determines an allocation of paging resources for a second beam pattern for a paging operation according to a predetermined mapping based on the first beam pattern. The base station transmits a paging message according to the second beam pattern using paging resources determined with the predetermined mapping.
Claims21
A method of paging for a base station in a wireless communication system, the base station operating multiple beams, the method comprising:
- transmitting a synchronization signal burst set by a beam sweep according to a first beam pattern;
- determining an allocation of paging resources for a second beam pattern for a paging operation according to a predetermined mapping based on the first beam pattern, wherein the predetermined mapping maps more than one beam of the first beam pattern to a single paging timeslot of the paging resources;
- and
- transmitting a paging message according to the second beam pattern using paging resources selected with the predetermined mapping.
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A base station that operates multiple beams, comprising:
- a wireless interface over which wireless communications with electronic devices are carried out over multiple beams;
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- a control circuit configured to control paging by the base station, wherein the control circuit causes the base station to:
- transmit a synchronization signal burst set by a beam sweep according to a first beam pattern, wherein the first beam pattern specifies respective transmissions of respective synchronization signal blocks by respective beams in respective synchronization timeslots;
- determine an allocation of paging resources for a second beam pattern for a paging message based on the first beam pattern and according to a predetermined mapping that maps at least two beams of the first beam pattern to a single paging timeslot of the paging resources;
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- transmit the paging message according to the second beam pattern using paging resources determined with the predetermined mapping.
A method of receiving a paging message in an electronic device operating in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system comprising a base station operating multiple beams, comprising:
- receiving a synchronization signal transmitted by a base station using a beam sweep of a plurality of beams according to a first beam pattern;
- identifying a preferred beam from the plurality of beams;
- determining paging resources corresponding to a paging message transmitted via the preferred beam based on a predetermined mapping;
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- receiving the paging message on the preferred beam at the paging resources determined according to the predetermined mapping.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.