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`l00331 FIG 6 is a swim lane diagram illustrating transmissions of a sync signal, an rvlSlB,
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`communication, in of a UE for use in \Vireless 5 10035] FIG. 8 shO\vs a block diagrnm
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`[00371 FIG. 10 shmvs a block diagram of a UE for use in \.1,-ireless communication. in
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`[00421 FIG. 15 sho\vs a block diagram of a base station for use in wireless communication,
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`100431 FIG, 16 shm-vs a block diagram of a base station fr:ir use in w1re!ess comrnumcation,
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`[00531 FIG. 25 is a fio-w chart illustrating nn example of u method for ,virdcss
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`105, one or more UEs 115, and a core one or more base stations 10 system 100 may include
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`etc, The terms ''carrier," "con1ponent carrier,'' ''cell," and "channel" may be used
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`[00821 In some embodiments of the wireless communication system 100, the •;-vireless
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`communication system 100 may have a UE-centric network. On the nen-vork side, the base
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`25 stations 105 may broadcast a periodic synchronization (sync) signal. The UEs 115 may
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`and in response receive the sync signal, acquire a timing of the nenvork from the sync si6>nal,
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`a OE l 15 may be concurrently receivable by a plurality of cells (e.g., base stations 105)
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`signaL a strength of the pilot may measure ,vi thin the netv�1ork. Each of the plurality of cells
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`UE l l 5 via one or more centrally-located transceivers and/or RR.1-b., am.I/or a central node
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`\.Vi thin the core net\.vork 130) may determine a serving cell for the UE 115. As the UE 115
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`continue� to transmit a pilot signal, the network may handover the UE 115 from one serving
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`cell to another, '>Vilh or without informing the UE 115. System information (SI) may be
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`transmitted to the UEs 115 in a broadcast mode (e,g, where a base station 105 transmits SI
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`5 regardless of whether the Sl is requested
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`area or needed by any OE .I 15 ,.vithin the coverage
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`110 of the base station 105) or in an on-demand mode (e.g., \vhere a base station 105
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`transmits SI in response to receiving a request for SI from one or more UEs ! ! 5, which
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`request may be included in, or be, the pilot signal of a UE 115). When transmitting SI in an
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`system comrnunication shcwi:'s an example of UE mobility ,vithin a wireless
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`shO\vs a UE 115-a as it moves to various points ( e.g,, point A, point B, and point C) within
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`the coverage areas 110-a and 110-b of respective first and second base stations I 05-a and
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`15 "l 0 5-b. In some exam pl es, the UE 115-a may be an example of one or more aspects of the
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`UEs 115 described ,.vith reference to FIG. I, and the first and second base stations 105-a and
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`[0084] By ·way of example, the UE l 15-a may be pm:vered on within the coverage area
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`first base station l 05-a; determining, from the sync signal, where and when to listen for a
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`25 broadcast by the first base station I 05-a. In other examples, the UE 115-a may perfbnn an
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`l00851 \Vhile still at point A, the UE 115-a may determine to reacquire Sl based on the
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`may also reacquire Sr, at point A,.