公开(公告)号：US20170181134A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-22

申请号：US14977412

申请日：2015-12-21

Applicant: INTEL IP CORPORATION

Inventor： HUANING NIU ,  QIAN LI ,  YANG TANG ,  SAMEER PAWAR ,  CHRISTIAN IBARS CASAS

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04L5/14

CPC classification number: H04W72/042 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04W48/00 ,  H04W56/001 ,  H04W74/0833

Abstract: Technology described herein relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media to enable a millimeter wave capable small cell (MCSC) devices to receive a handover of a user equipment from a universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access node B (eNB). In particular, systems and methods are described for user equipment (UE) association with a MCSC operating as a booster for an eNB in a time division duplexing (TDD) system, including identification of and communication on preferred cell sector between the UE and the MCSC. Protocols for concurrently performing a beam search and time and frequency synchronization for downlink communication are also described. Several sub-frame designs to facilitate these protocols are also described.