US 11,817,897 B2
Synchronization beacon
Gerd Kilian, Erlangen (DE); Josef Bernhard, Erlangen (DE); Frank Obernosterer, Nuremberg (DE); Raimund Meyer, Fürth (DE); Johannes Wechsler, Erlangen (DE); Jakob Kneißl, Erlangen (DE); Dominik Soller, Erlangen (DE); and Jörg Robert, Uttenreuth (DE)
Assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., Munich (DE); and FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich (DE); and Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/189,444.
Application 17/189,444 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/073168, filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 215 193.8 (DE), filed on Sep. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0194538 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
Int. Cl. H04B 1/7156 (2011.01); H04B 1/7143 (2011.01)
CPC H04B 1/7156 (2013.01) [H04B 1/7143 (2013.01); H04B 2001/71563 (2013.01); H04B 2001/71566 (2013.01)] 67 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
65. A method for operating a base station of a communication system, the method comprising:
transmitting a control signal for coordinating the participants of the communication system, wherein the control signal is transferred distributed in correspondence with a frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of a frequency band, indicated by a control signal hopping pattern, and
transmitting a reference signal in a predetermined frequency range of the frequency band, wherein the reference signal comprises information on the control signal,
wherein the predetermined frequency range is smaller by at least a factor 3 than a frequency range of the frequency band in which the control signal is transferred distributed in correspondence with the control signal hopping pattern,
wherein the information on the control signal, which comprise the reference signal, comprise information on the control signal hopping pattern or information on the resources of the frequency band usable by the communication system for transferring the control signal,
wherein the reference signal is provided with a plurality of partial reference data packets which comprises the information on the control signal, and
wherein the reference signal is transferred in correspondence with a reference signal hopping pattern, wherein the reference signal hopping pattern indicates a frequency hop and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the predetermined frequency range.