Patent ID: 11903020
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A base station (BS) in a wireless communication system including a carrier operating with shared spectrum channel access, the BS comprising:
a processor configured to:
determine a number of beam directions to sense;
determine a number of channel access requests (CARQs) in a burst, wherein the number of CARQs is greater than one; and
determine at least one field in a downlink control information (DCI) format, wherein the at least one field indicates:
a set of CARQs according to the number of CARQs in the burst; and
a set of beam directions according to the number of beam directions to sense; and

a transceiver operably coupled to the processor, the transceiver configured to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), the DCI format including the at least one field in physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs).