Patent ID: 9526085
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A communication station, comprising: a modulation circuit, configured to operably modulate one or more master information blocks (MIBs); a mapping circuit, configured to operably map the modulated MIBs to a new carrier type physical broadcast channel (PBCH) wherein the PBCH is configured in a plurality of radio frames; and a transmitting circuit, configured to operably transmit the radio frames; wherein each of the radio frames comprises a plurality of subframes; each of the subframes comprises a plurality of slots; each of the slots comprises a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; each of the OFDM symbols comprises a plurality of subcarriers; each of the slots comprises a plurality of radio blocks (RBs); each of the RBs comprises a predetermined number of OFDM symbols located on a predetermined number of subcarriers; the mapping circuit maps the modulated MIBs to a plurality of central RBs of a first predetermined subframes of the radio frames; the central RBs are configured to be around a DC subcarrier of the subcarriers; and the mapping circuit maps the modulated MIBs to only part of the central RBs; wherein the mapping circuit maps the modulated MIBs to a first RB and a second RB of the central RBs of a first slot of the first predetermined subframe and to a third RB and a fourth RB of the central RBs of a second slot of the second predetermined subframe, the first RB and the third RB respectively comprise a first RB number and a third RB number which are different and the second RB and the fourth RB respectively comprise a second RB number and a fourth RB number which are different.