NARROWBAND SERVICE DEPLOYMENT IN WIDEBAND CARRIER GUARD-BAND

    公开(公告)号:US20190141705A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US16074329

    申请日:2017-02-06

    摘要: A wideband carrier (e.g., LTE carrier) is shifted up or down in frequency, within an allocated frequency band, by an integer multiple of the channel raster spacing (e.g., 100 KHz). This reduces the size of the guard band on one side of the carrier, and expands the guard band on the other side. A narrowband carrier (e.g., NB-IoT carrier) is then deployed within the expanded guard band, at or near a frequency such that the transmission is orthogonal to the wideband carrier transmissions, such as by using a shared N frequency grid spacing (e.g. at 100 KHz spacing, and using 15 KHz subcarriers). The narrowband carrier thus maintains orthogonality with the wideband carrier, but has “room” within the expanded guard band to both transmit on a frequency close to the frequency grid spacing, and to boost transmit power (e.g., by 6 dB), while remaining within the spectral mask. The shifted wideband carrier is transparent to wideband UEs, as the frequency shift is an integer multiple of the channel raster spacing.

    TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROL RESOURCE SET CONTROL CHANNEL ELEMENT TO RESOURCE ELEMENT GROUP MAPPING

    公开(公告)号:US20210410117A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-30

    申请号:US16333988

    申请日:2019-01-09

    IPC分类号: H04W72/04 H04L1/00 H04L5/00

    摘要: A scheme for control resource set (CORESET) control channel element (CCE) to resource element group (REG) mapping. The terminal device determines a set of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates based on one or more CORESET CCE to REG mapping related parameters. The one or more CORESET CCE to REG mapping related parameters are fixed. In one scheme, the terminal device obtains information by detecting a synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block. The terminal device determines one or more CORESET CCE to REG mapping related parameters, based on the information obtained during the detection of the SS/PBCH block. A correspondence between the one or more CORESET CCE to REG mapping related parameters and the obtained information is predefined between the terminal device and a BS. The terminal device determines a set of PDCCH candidates based on the one or more CORESET CCE to REG mapping related parameters.