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

Claim 13:
14. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving, from a base station (BS), a downlink control information (DCI) format in physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs);
determining a number of beam directions to sense;
determining a number of channel access request (CARQs) in a burst, wherein the number of CARQs is greater than one; and
determining, based on at least one field in the DCI format:
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.