Method and apparatus for sending sounding reference signal SRS

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11233609-B2
Application number	US-202016875755-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2020
Priority date	Nov 17, 2017
Publication date	Jan 25, 2022
Grant date	Jan 25, 2022

Abstract

This application provides a method including: receiving first configuration information of a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource from a network device, where the first configuration information includes a repetition factor of the SRS resource, and the repetition factor of the SRS resource is a quantity N of positions at which the SRS resource is mapped to a same subcarrier and mapped to at least one continuous symbol in one time unit, where N≥1 and is an integer; determining at least one first frequency domain resource to which the SRS resource is mapped in a first time unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for sending a sounding reference signal (SRS), comprising:
receiving, by a terminal device, a first configuration information of an SRS resource of a first slot from a network device, wherein the first configuration information comprises a repetition factor L r of the SRS resource, and the first configuration information indicates the SRS resource consists of four OFDM symbols;
determining, by the terminal device based on n SRS , two frequency domain resources to which the SRS resource is mapped in the first slot; and
determining different values of n SRS are associated with different frequency domain resources of the four OFDM symbols, wherein the n SRS is a count of frequency positions within the SRS resource that satisfies:
n SRS =└l′/L r ┘,

where l′ represents a difference between a symbol number of the four OFDM symbols in the first slot and a starting symbol number of the SRS resource in the first slot, l′=0, 1, 2, or 3, and L r =2; and
sending, by the terminal device, an SRS to the network device on the determined two frequency domain resources.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first configuration information further comprises the starting symbol number of the SRS resource in the first slot.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the SRS resource is configured as aperiodic.

4. A communication device, comprising:
a transceiver, configured to receive first configuration information of a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource of a first slot from a network device, wherein the first configuration information comprises a repetition factor L r of the SRS resource, and the first configuration information indicates the SRS resource consists of four OFDM symbols; and
a processor, configured to determine, based on n SRS , two frequency domain resources to which the SRS resource is mapped in the first slot; and
determining different values of n SRS are associated with different frequency domain resources of the four OFDM symbols, wherein the n SRS is a count of frequency positions within the SRS resource that satisfies:
n SRS =└l′/L r ┘,

where l′ represents a difference between a symbol number of the four OFDM symbols in the first slot and a starting symbol number of the SRS resource in the first slot, l′=0, 1, 2, or 3, and L r =2;
wherein the transceiver is further configured to send, by the terminal device, an SRS to the network device on the determined two frequency domain resources.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the first configuration information further comprises the starting symbol number of the SRS resource in the first slot.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the SRS resource is configured as aperiodic.

7. A communication device, comprising:
a storage medium including executable instructions; and
a processor;
wherein the executable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the communication device to:
receive first configuration information of a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource of a first slot from a network device, wherein the first configuration information comprises a repetition factor L r of the SRS resource, and the first configuration information indicates the SRS resource consists of four OFDM symbols;
determine, based on n SRS , two frequency domain resources to which the SRS resource is mapped in the first slot; and
determine different values of n SRS are associated with different frequency domain resources of the four OFDM symbols, wherein the n SRS is a count of frequency positions within the SRS resource that satisfies:
n SRS =└l′/L r ┘,

where l′ represent a difference between a symbol number of the four OFDM symbols in the first slot and a starting symbol number of the SRS resource in the first slot, l′=0, 1, 2, or 3, and L r =2; and
send an SRS to the network device on the determined two frequency domain resources.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the first configuration information further comprises the starting symbol number of the SRS resource in the first slot.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the SRS resource is configured as aperiodic.

10. A computer-readable storage medium, configured to store a computer program, wherein the computer program is used to execute an instruction of the method according to claim 1 .

11. A communication system, comprising a user equipment and a base station, wherein the user equipment is configured to:
receive, by a terminal device, a first configuration information of a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource of a first slot from a network device, wherein the first configuration information comprises a repetition factor L r of the SRS resource, and the first configuration information indicates the SRS resource consists of four OFDM symbols;
determine, by the terminal device based on n SRS , two frequency domain resources to which the SRS resource is mapped in the first slot; and
determine different values of n SRS are associated with different frequency domain resources of the four OFDM symbols, wherein the n SRS is a count of frequency positions within the SRS resource that satisfies:
n SRS =└l′/L r ┘,

where l′ represent a difference between a symbol number of the four OFDM symbols in the first slot and a starting symbol number of the SRS resource in the first slot, l′=0, 1, 2, or 3, and L r =2; and
sending, by the terminal device, an SRS to the network device on the determined two frequency domain resources.

12. The system according to claim 11 , wherein the first configuration information further comprises the starting symbol number of the SRS resource in the first slot.

13. The system according to claim 11 , wherein the SRS resource is configured as aperiodic.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Qin Yi
• Dou Shengyue
• Gao Xiang
• Liu Jianqin
• Zhang Min

Classifications

• H04L27/2613 Primary

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• H04L27/26136

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• H04L5/0048

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title

• H04L5/0012 Primary

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• H04L5/0057

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