SRS power control method, configuration method for SRS power control, and related device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12170967-B2
Application number	US-202117552212-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2021
Priority date	Jun 18, 2019
Publication date	Dec 17, 2024
Grant date	Dec 17, 2024

Abstract

An SRS power control method includes: receiving configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information is used to configure N power control parameter sets, a power control parameter set includes a path loss estimation reference signal (path loss RS), the path loss RS is associated with a neighboring cell and/or a serving cell, and N is a positive integer; and performing power control on at least one SRS unit according to the N power control parameter sets, where the at least one SRS unit is used for positioning, and an SRS unit is an SRS resource set or an SRS resource.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sounding reference signal (SRS) power control method, applied to a terminal, comprising:
receiving configuration information from a network device, wherein the configuration information is used to configure N power control parameter sets, wherein
the configuration information is further used to indicate transmission power of a synchronization signal block of a neighboring cell associated with a power control parameter set or transmission power of a path loss estimation reference signal (path loss RS);
the power control parameter set comprises the path loss RS, the path loss RS is associated with a neighboring cell and/or a serving cell, and N is a positive integer; and

performing power control on at least one SRS unit according to the N power control parameter sets, wherein the at least one SRS unit is used for positioning, and an SRS unit is an SRS resource set or an SRS resource.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the path loss RS comprises at least one of a positioning reference signal (PRS), a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), or a synchronization signal block (SSB), and identifier information of the path loss RS is configured by the network device for the terminal.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the path loss RS is the SSB or the PRS; wherein
when the path loss RS is the SSB, identifier information of the SSB comprises a synchronization signal block index; or
when the path loss RS is the PRS, identifier information of the PRS comprises a positioning reference signal resource identifier.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the SRS unit is the SRS resource set, the configuration information is used to configure N SRS resource sets, and the SRS resource set comprises one power control parameter set.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein in a case that N is greater than 1, transmission power of the N SRS resource sets is transmission power calculated according to a second path loss measurement result;
wherein the second path loss measurement result is an average or any one of path loss measurement results corresponding to M power control parameter sets, and M is a positive integer less than N.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein a cell associated with the path loss RS is same as a receiving cell of a corresponding SRS resource set; or
a cell associated with the path loss RS is same as a cell where a downlink reference signal spatially correlated to the SRS resource set is located, or the path loss RS is same as a downlink reference signal spatially correlated to a corresponding SRS resource set.

7. The method according to claim 4 , wherein in a case that a number of SRS resources in the SRS resource set is greater than 1, a plurality of SRS resources in the SRS resource set have a same sending beam direction, or a plurality of SRS resources in the SRS resource set have a same spatially correlated reference signal; or
in a case that a number of SRS resources in the SRS resource set is greater than 1, transmission power of a plurality of SRS resources in the SRS resource set is same.

8. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the performing power control on at least one SRS unit according to the N power control parameter sets comprises:
determining transmission power of the at least one SRS unit according to path loss measurement results of path loss RSs of the N power control parameter sets.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the determining transmission power of the at least one SRS unit according to path loss measurement results of path loss RSs of the N power control parameter sets comprises:
determining, according to the path loss measurement results of the path loss RSs of the N power control parameter sets, transmission power corresponding to the N power control parameter sets; and
determining the transmission power of the at least one SRS unit according to the transmission power corresponding to the N power control parameter sets.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein in a case that N is greater than 1, the determining, according to the path loss measurement results of the path loss RSs of the N power control parameter sets, transmission power corresponding to the N power control parameter sets comprises:
determining, in a preset manner, transmission power corresponding to a third power control parameter set;
wherein the third power control parameter set is any one of the N power control parameter sets, and the third power control parameter set satisfies any one of:
a path loss RS of the third power control parameter set is different from a monitored path loss RS;
received quality of a path loss RS of the third power control parameter set is less than a preset value; or
transmission power of a path loss RS of the third power control parameter set could not be obtained.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the preset manner comprises any one of:
using an average or any one of transmission power corresponding to L fourth power control parameter sets as the transmission power corresponding to the third power control parameter set; wherein the L fourth power control parameter sets are power control parameter sets for obtaining path loss measurement results and determining transmission power by the terminal;
using transmission power corresponding to a power control parameter set corresponding to a serving cell as the transmission power corresponding to the third power control parameter set;
determining, according to a third path loss measurement result and a third power control parameter, the transmission power corresponding to the third power control parameter set; wherein the third path loss measurement result is an average or any one of L path loss measurement results, the L path loss measurement results are path loss measurement results corresponding to the L fourth power control parameter sets, and the third power control parameter is a power control parameter in the third power control parameter set other than the path loss RS; or
determining, according to the third power control parameter and a path loss measurement result that corresponds to the serving cell, the transmission power corresponding to the third power control parameter set.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein in a case that the SRS unit is the SRS resource, transmission power of the SRS resource is any one of:
transmission power calculated according to a power control parameter set where a path loss RS associated with target identifier information is located, wherein the target identifier information is cell identifier information spatially correlated to the SRS resource;
transmission power corresponding to a fifth power control parameter set indicated by the network device, wherein the fifth power control parameter set is a power control parameter set associated with a target cell in the N power control parameter sets;
a maximum value, a minimum value, or an average of transmission power corresponding to the N power control parameter sets;
transmission power corresponding to a sixth power control parameter set, wherein a path loss measurement result corresponding to the sixth power control parameter set is the largest or smallest; or
transmission power calculated according to a fourth path loss measurement result in a case that the N power control parameter sets share same P0 and same alpha, wherein the fourth path loss measurement result is an average of path loss measurement results corresponding to the N power control parameter sets.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the SRS un

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Si Ye
• Sun Xiaodong
• Sun Peng
• Wu Huaming

Classifications

• H04W56/001

  Synchronization between nodes · CPC title

• H04W52/367

  Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range · CPC title

• H04W52/242 Primary

  taking into account path loss · CPC title

• H04L5/0051

  of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal · CPC title

• H04W52/42

  in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity · CPC title