System detection in a high frequency band radio access technology architecture

A cell device of a wireless telecommunications network, the cell device comprising:

• a radio component to communicate with a user equipment (“UE”);
• a memory device storing a set of processor-executable instructions;
• and
• processing circuitry to execute the set of processor-executable instructions, wherein executing the set of processor-executable instructions causes the cell device to:
• output, to the UE, assistance information that includes at least one of:
• a carrier frequency associated with the wireless telecommunications network,
• a polling channel configuration, or
• a polling response channel configuration;
• receive, from the UE, a polling signal that was generated by the UE based on the assistance information;
• generate a synchronization signal for the UE, the generating including:
• determining one or more beamforming weights based on the received polling signal;
• determine one or more transmission points from which to output the synchronization signal via a polling response channel, the determining being based on at least one of:
• a signal strength of the received polling signal,
• a signal power at which the received polling signal was transmitted by the UE,
• a receive timing offset of the received polling signal, or
• a load condition of the wireless telecommunications network;
• and
• output the generated synchronization signal via the polling response channel, via the one determined one or more transmission points, to the UE, in response to the polling signal, the polling response channel corresponding to the polling response channel configuration.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a wireless telecommunications network, a polling signal from a user equipment (“UE”);
• and
• outputting, from a plurality of transmission points of the wireless telecommunications network, a plurality of synchronization signals to a plurality of UEs,
• wherein a first synchronization signal for a first UE, from a first transmission point, is associated with a first set of beamforming weights,
• wherein a second synchronization signal for the first UE, from a second transmission point, is associated with a second set of beamforming weights that is different from the first set of beamforming weights,
• wherein the first and second synchronization signals for the first UE are transmitted on a same time-frequency resource,
• wherein outputting the plurality of synchronization signals includes:
• multiplexing the plurality of synchronization signals associated with different analog beamforming weights on a frequency domain,
• the synchronization signals for the first UE, associated with a first set of analog beamforming weights, being outputted from a particular transmission point on a first frequency sub-domain, and
• the synchronization signals for a second UE, associated with a second set of analog beamforming weights, being outputted from another transmission point on a second frequency sub-domain, the first and second frequency sub-domains being different.