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Apparatus and method for signaling system information

  • US 10,455,621 B2
  • Filed: 02/27/2017
  • Issued: 10/22/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for receiving system information (SI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

  • receiving, from a base station (BS), minimum SI which is broadcasted periodically, the minimum SI including information indicating whether a SI message for other SI is broadcast periodically or provisioned on demand, and configuration information on a physical random access channel (PRACH), wherein the configuration information includes information on PRACH resource for the other SI and information on a PRACH preamble corresponding to each SI message for the other SI;

    in a case that the information indicates that the SI message for the other SI is provisioned on demand, transmitting, to the BS, a PRACH preamble corresponding to the SI message based on the configuration information; and

    receiving, from the BS, the SI message for the other SI in response to the PRACH preamble.

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