US Patent Application 17733963. TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING BANDWIDTH PARTS AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCKS simplified abstract
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TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING BANDWIDTH PARTS AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCKS
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Inventor(s)
Yongjun Kwak of San Diego CA (US)
Muhammad Nazmul Islam of Littleton MA (US)
Prashant Sharma of San Jose CA (US)
TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING BANDWIDTH PARTS AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCKS - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17733963 Titled 'TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING BANDWIDTH PARTS AND SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCKS'
Simplified Explanation
This abstract describes methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications. It introduces the concept of a synchronization signal block (SSB) that can be dynamically scheduled within the operating bandwidth of a user equipment (UE). The UE may operate in a reduced capability mode or an enhanced reduced capability mode, which means it operates in a narrower bandwidth than the serving cell bandwidth. Control signaling is used to configure an SSB for the UE within its operating bandwidth. The UE can then monitor for a non-cell defining SSB (NCD-SSB) and skip monitoring for the cell defining SSB (CD-SSB) based on the dynamically configured NCD-SSB. This allows a reduced capability UE or an enhanced reduced capability UE to monitor for the NCD-SSB without the need for RF retuning.
Original Abstract Submitted
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A synchronization signal block (SSB) may be dynamically scheduled within an operating bandwidth of a user equipment (UE), where the operating bandwidth of the UE is outside of a frequency resource in which a cell defining SSB (CD-SSB) is scheduled. For example, a UE may operate in a reduced capability mode or an enhanced reduced capability mode where the UE may operate in a narrower bandwidth than the serving cell bandwidth. Control signaling may dynamically configure an SSB for the UE within the operating bandwidth of the UE. The UE may monitor for the non-cell defining SSB (NCD-SSB) and skip monitoring for the CD-SSB based on the dynamically configured NCD-SSB. For example, a reduced capability UE or an enhanced reduced capability UE may monitor for the NCD-SSB without performing RF retuning between receiving the control signaling and monitoring for the NCD-SSB.
