US 12,388,511 B2
Detection of a cell and an antenna beam
Johannes Harrebek, Aalborg (DK); Benny Vejlgaard, Gistrup (DK); Rafhael Amorim, Aalborg (DK); and Simon Svendsen, Aalborg (DK)
Assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/796,302
Filed by NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Jan. 27, 2021, PCT No. PCT/FI2021/050049
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/152211, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20205107 (FI), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0142743 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04B 7/0408 (2017.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/20 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0408 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A method comprising:
performing, in parallel or semi-parallel, a first beam sweep and a second beam sweep, wherein the first beam sweep is performed by a first antenna panel and the second beam sweep is performed by a second antenna panel;
obtaining results from the first and the second beam sweeps, wherein the results comprise one or both of (i) a power measurement associated with one or more beam indexes and (ii) an access node identifier for respective ones of a plurality of identified access nodes;
responsive to the results comprising an access node identifier, identifying an access node based on the results;
responsive to the results not comprising an access node identifier, attempting to decode on identified beam indexes having a power measurement that satisfies a threshold and identifying the access node based on a successful decoding; and
initiating a connection to the access node.