SECONDARY POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNALS FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS IN 5G NEW RADIO

    公开(公告)号:WO2021155578A

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-12

    申请号:PCT/CN2020/074513

    申请日:2020-02-07

    Abstract: Satellites in a non-terrestrial network may provide positioning reference signals (PRS) to user equipment (UE), with which the UE may determine its position using propagation delay difference measurements, such as Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) measurement. Due to the large distances between satellites and the UE, the propagation delay differences in the PRS received from satellites may exceed half a radio frame, resulting in a frame level timing ambiguity in the differential measurements. The satellites transmit secondary PRS, along with primary PRS, that include timing information to resolve frame level timing ambiguity of the primary PRS. The positioning occasions in the secondary PRS, for example, may be aligned with corresponding positioning occasions primary PRS within each radio frame, and are transmitted with a periodicity that is an integer multiple (greater than 1) of that of the primary PRS to resolve the frame level timing ambiguity of the primary PRS.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING HYBRID SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS

    公开(公告)号:WO2018236981A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:PCT/US2018/038471

    申请日:2018-06-20

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a satellite system including different satellites that may belong to different types of satellite constellations. In some implementations, the satellite system may include a LEO satellite constellation and one or more non-LEO satellite constellations that can be used to increase the forward link capacity of the LEO satellite constellation, for example, by allowing an LEO satellite to offload at least some of its forward link traffic to one of the non-LEO satellites. The user terminals can dynamically switch forward link communications between a LEO satellite and a non-LEO satellite while maintaining a return link connection with the LEO satellite.

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