Patent ID: 11889548
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for of operating a user equipment (UE) in a millimeter wave shared spectrum, the method comprising:
receiving, by the UE, higher layer information, the higher layer information allowing the UE to operate with shared spectrum access in a serving cell within the millimeter wave shared spectrum, wherein the higher layer information includes an indicator that indicates a channel access mode; and
transmitting, subsequent to determining that the channel is idle using channel sensing on the channel, by the UE, an uplink (UL) transmission burst on a channel in the serving cell to, thereby, initiate channel occupancy on the channel;
wherein,
the channel sensing is performed, by the UE, in accordance with a channel sensing type determined in accordance with the channel access mode, the channel sensing type comprising a directional channel sensing type.