Patent ID: 11943022
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 21:
22. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), the one or more processors to configure the UE to, when the instructions are executed:
determine a position of the UE from reference signals received base station via beamforming;
transmit a measurement report to the base station, the measurement report indicating height information of the UE;
receive, from the base station, higher layer signaling that contains a synchronization signal block (SSB) restriction pattern, the SSB restriction pattern dependent on a height of the UE such that the SSB restriction pattern when the height of the UE is above a predetermined threshold is different from the SSB restriction pattern when the height of the UE is below the predetermined threshold; and
for communications below 6 GHz, restrict search for and measurement of primary synchronization signals (PSSs) and secondary synchronization signals (SSSs) to restricted synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) indicated by the SSB restriction pattern; and
receive Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) signaling to change SSB restriction patterns,
wherein a number of available SSBs in a vertical dimension is larger than 4 when the communications are below 3 GHz and larger than 8 when the communications are between 3 GHz and 6 GHz.