Primary synchronization signal design

A network entity, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors being configured to, individually or collectively, based at least in part on information stored in the one or more memories:
• configure a synchronization signal block (SSB) using SSB resources that convey a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) within an SSB resource area of a time-frequency resource grid bounded in time by a first configured integer number of time units and bounded in frequency by a second configured integer number of physical channels, wherein:
• a product of the first configured integer number and the second configured integer number is a predetermined constant value,
• each symbol of the SSB has an equal number of resource elements (REs), and
• all REs in the each symbol of the SSB, except REs within a first frequency guard band between any two of the PSS, the SSS, and the PBCH in the each symbol of the SSB, have non-zero values;
• and
• transmit the SSB in the SSB resources as a beamformed SSB.

A method, at a user equipment, comprising:

• receiving, from a network entity, a synchronization signal block (SSB) conveying a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) within an SSB resource area of a time-frequency resource grid bounded in time by a first configured integer number of time units and bounded in frequency by a second configured integer number of physical channels, wherein:
• a product of the first configured integer number and the second configured integer number is a predetermined constant value,
• each symbol of the SSB has an equal number of resource elements (REs), and
• all REs in the each symbol of the SSB, except REs within a first frequency guard band between any two of the PSS, the SSS, and the PBCH in the each symbol of the SSB, have non-zero values;
• and
• transmitting, to the network entity, at least one of:
• a layer 1 (L1) measurement report, or a layer 3 (L3) measurement report based on measurements of SSB reference signals (SSB-RSs) within the SSB resource area.

A user equipment, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors being configured to, individually or collectively, based at least in part on information stored in the one or memories:
• receive from a network entity, a synchronization signal block (SSB) conveying a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) within an SSB resource area of a time-frequency resource grid bounded in time by a first configured integer number of time units and bounded in frequency by a second configured integer number of physical channels, wherein:
• a product of the first configured integer number and the second configured integer number is a predetermined constant value,
• each symbol of the SSB has an equal number of resource elements (REs), and
• all REs in the each symbol of the SSB, except REs within a first frequency guard band between any two of the PSS, the SSS, and the PBCH in the each symbol of the SSB, have non-zero values;
• and
• transmit, to the network entity, at least one of:
• a layer 1 (L1) measurement report, or a layer 3 (L3) measurement report based on measurements of SSB reference signals (SSB-RSs) within the SSB resource area.