Patent ID: 9491755
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04B,H04J,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A base station, comprising: an antenna array configured to transmit beam-steered signals in each of a plurality of slices with a sector; and a transmitter configured to cause the antenna array to transmit a sequence of primary synchronization symbols within predetermined symbol positions in at least one slot of a subframe, wherein the sequence of primary synchronization symbols includes primary synchronization symbols transmitted on different slices of the plurality of slices, and wherein a first primary synchronization symbol is transmitted in a first symbol position on a first slice of the plurality of slices, and the first primary synchronization symbol is re-transmitted in an (S+n)th symbol position on the first slice, where S is the number of the plurality of slices within the sector and n is an integer value.