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

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus of a drone, the apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry arranged to:
determine a position of the drone from reference signals received from a base station via beamforming;
generate a measurement report to the base station, the measurement report indicating height information of the drone;
decode higher layer signaling, from the base station, that contains a synchronization signal block (SSB) restriction pattern, the SSB restriction pattern dependent on a height of the drone such that the SSB restriction pattern when the height of the drone is above a predetermined threshold is different from the SSB restriction pattern when the height of the drone 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

a memory configured to store the SSB restriction pattern.