ENHANCED BROADCAST CHANNEL FOR LOW COST MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION WITH COVERAGE ENHANCEMENT

摘要

A process, apparatus, and computer program product for enhancing coverage enhancement for network node signals targeted to machine type communication (MTC) devices such as automated wireless meters for water, electric and gas usage measurement. Two enhanced master information block (MIB) formats are defined. A first format contains all critical system information for common user equipment (UE) while the second format contains the critical system information plus the system information specific to MTC users. The second format provides sufficient system information necessary for MTC user equipment to initialize random access channel procedure. UE determines the eMIB format based on the detected primary synchronization signal/secondary synchronization signal (PSS/SSS) scheme and decodes the eMIB accordingly.