Patent ID: 11895634
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method of wireless communication performed by a base station (BS), the method comprising:
determining, based on a channel bandwidth, a first portion of a control resource set (CORESET), wherein the first portion is within a channel bandwidth, and wherein the CORESET includes a second portion outside the channel bandwidth;
transmitting system information block (SIB) scheduling information in the first portion of the CORESET including a reference signal, wherein the transmitting the reference signal comprises:
puncturing a portion of the reference signal in the second portion of the CORESET; and
increasing a transmit power for the reference signal from a reference transmit power based on the puncturing;

transmitting a synchronization signal block (SSB) including an indication of a starting RB offset associated with the CORESET, wherein the starting RB offset comprises a number of RBs relative to the SSB; and
transmitting a SIB based on the SIB scheduling information.