Patent ID: 11968041
Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) comprising a processor and a memory configured to:
receive a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission, the PBCH transmission comprising a plurality of rate matched polar encoded bits, each of the plurality of rate matched polar encoded bits being associated with respective bit channels, and each of the respective bit channels being associated with a respective reliability, wherein bits are provided to the respective bit channels based on the respective reliability; and
decode the plurality of polar encoded bits to obtain decoded bits, wherein the decoded bits comprise a master information block (MIB), cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits, one or more bits indicating timing information, and one or more bits indicating a system frame number (SFN).