Aaron T Thomas

US Patent:

20190268084, Aug 29, 2019

Filed:

Dec 27, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/233148

Inventors:

- Baltimore MD, US
Brian W. Stevens - Elkridge MD, US
Aaron T. Thomas - Middletown DE, US

International Classification:

H04J 11/00
H04W 76/11
H04W 72/04
H04W 56/00
H04L 5/00
H04L 27/26

Abstract:

An example method for determining a physical cell identifier is provided. The example method may include receiving a first and second signal captures from wireless, cellular communication signals transmitted by a base station. The first signal capture being a portion of a first radio frame and the second signal capture being a portion of a second, subsequent radio frame. The method may further include aligning the first and second signal captures to determine a location of a start of a first symbol in each and decoding data within signal captures to generate a first capture grid and a second capture grid. The method may further include combining the capture grids into a resultant grid and determining a subset of possible physical cell identifiers based on a position of a selected reference symbol within the resultant grid to assist with determining a current cell identifier.