Beam refinement during RACH

• US 10,651,913 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2018
• Issued: 05/12/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
• Original Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
• Inventors: Jeon, Hyoungsuk, Dinan, Esmael, Park, Kyungmin, Zhou, Hua, Babaei, Alireza
• Primary Examiner(s): Liu, Shuwang
• Assistant Examiner(s): McKie, Gina M
• Application Number:
  US16/101,132
• Publication Number:
  US 20190052334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0626 Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0695 using beam selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/0073 Acquisition of primary synchronisation channel, e.g. detection of cell-ID within cell-ID group
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/0076 Acquisition of secondary synchronisation channel, e.g. detection of cell-ID group
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/0062 Zadoff-Chu
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0005 synchronizing of arrival of multiple uplinks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

A base station transmits to a wireless device, a first request to measure synchronization signal(s) of a first cell. The base station receives from the wireless device, measurement report(s) of at least one synchronization signal of the synchronization signal(s). The base station transmits to the wireless device, a second request to measure CSI-RS(s) of the first cell. The base station receives from the wireless device, second measurement report(s) of the CSI-RS(s). The second measurement report(s) are generated in response to the second request. The base station selects first CSI-RS(s) of the CSI-RS(s) based on the second measurement report(s). The base station transmits a downlink control information to the wireless device via one or more control channels. The downlink control information initiates a random access procedure of the first cell. The downlink control information comprises an indication of the first CSI-RS(s).

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a base station to a wireless device, a first request to measure one or more synchronization signals of a first cell;

receiving, by the base station from the wireless device, at least one first measurement report of at least one synchronization signal of the one or more synchronization signals;

selecting, by the base station, one or more channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) of the first cell based on;

the at least one first measurement report; and

a first antenna port of the one or more CSI-RSs being quasi-colocated with a second port of the at least one synchronization signal;

receiving, by the base station from the wireless device, at least one second measurement report of the one or more CSI-RSs;

selecting, for a random access procedure of the first cell and based on the at least one second measurement report, at least one first CSI-RS of the one or more CSI-RSs; and

transmitting, based on the at least one first CSI-RS, a downlink control information initiating the random access procedure of the first cell.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first cell is a secondary cell.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one first measurement report indicates at least one first index of the at least one synchronization signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one first measurement report indicates at least one first received signal strength of the at least one synchronization signal.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one second measurement report indicates at least one second index of a second CSI-RS selected by the wireless device among the one or more CSI-RSs.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one second measurement report indicates at least one second received signal strength of the second CSI-RS.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the base station transmits, to the wireless device via the first cell, the one or more synchronization signals.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more synchronization signals comprises a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the secondary synchronization signal indicates a cell identifier of the first cell.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein each of the one or more synchronization signals further comprises a tertiary synchronization signal.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the primary synchronization signal and the secondary synchronization signal, of each of the one or more synchronization signals, are time division multiplexed with a physical broadcast channel.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the primary synchronization signal of each of the one or more synchronization signals is a Zadoff-Chu sequence.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the downlink control information further comprises at least one random access preamble.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving, by the base station from the wireless device, the at least one random access preamble via one or more random access channels of the first cell.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising transmitting, by the base station to the wireless device, at least one random access response in response to the at least one random access preamble.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one random access response is scrambled by a random access radio network temporary identifier.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the at least one random access response comprises:

a timing advance command; and

an uplink grant.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the downlink control information is scrambled by a cell radio network temporary identifier.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more CSI-RSs are periodic CSI-RSs.