US 12,192,923 B2
Synchronization signal block transmission with 480 kHz or 960 kHz subcarrier spacing
Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, San Diego, CA (US); Sigen Ye, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); and Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/441,794
Filed by APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 14, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/071905
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/151251, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0096755 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 56/001 (2013.01) [H04L 27/26025 (2021.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media, having instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to:
generate, with a subcarrier spacing (SCS) of S kHz, a first plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) for transmission on a first set of consecutive symbols and a second plurality of SSBs for transmission on a second set of consecutive symbols, wherein S has a value of 480 or 960; and
processing an uplink data transmission using a 960 kHz SCS, wherein the uplink data transmission is received between a transmission of the first plurality of SSBs and a transmission of the second plurality of SSBs; and
wherein the transmission of the first plurality of SSBs and the transmission of the second plurality of SSBs occur within an ordered time sequence of R consecutive symbols, and wherein:
R has a value of (112×P), where P has a value of (S/480) and each symbol in the ordered time sequence is indexed from 0 to (R−1), and, for each SSB of the first plurality of SSBs, an index Y1 of a starting symbol of the SSB has a value of the following expression: Y1=(16×P)+ (4×m), and, for each SSB of the second plurality of SSBs, an index Y2 of a starting symbol of the SSB has a value of the following expression: Y2=(64×P)+ (4×m), where m is any integer from 0 to [(8×P)−1];
R has a value of (28×P), where P has a value of (S/480) and each symbol in the ordered time sequence is indexed from 0 to (R−1), and, for each SSB of the first plurality of SSBs, an index Y1 of a starting symbol of the SSB has a value of the following expression: Y1=(4×P)+ (4×m), and, for each SSB of the second plurality of SSBs, an index Y2 of a starting symbol of the SSB has a value of the following expression: Y2=(16×P)+ (4×m), where m is any integer from 0 to [(2×P)−1]; or
R has a value of (28×P), where P has a value of (S/480) and each symbol in the ordered time sequence is indexed from 0 to (R−1), and, for each SSB of the first plurality of SSBs, an index Y1 of a starting symbol of the SSB has a value of the following expression: Y1=[(2×P)+ (4×m)] or [(8×P)+ (4×m)], and, for each SSB of the second plurality of SSBs, an index Y2 of a starting symbol of the SSB has a value of the following expression: Y2=[(16×P)+ (4×m)] or [(22×P)+ (4×m)], where m is any integer from 0 to (P−1).