IP Library Granted Patent US 10,959,210
Granted Patent B2
US 10,959,210 · App. 16/401,882 · Granted Mar 23, 2021

Downlink reference resource selection for uplink transmissions

Inventors: Zhibin Yu (Unterhaching, DE); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Intel Corporation
H04W72/02H04L5/00H04L5/0048H04W24/08H04W56/001H04W72/042H04W76/27H04W48/12
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,959,210
App. No.
16/401,882
Filed
May 2, 2019
Granted
Mar 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Examiner
PEZZLO, JOHN
Art Unit
2465
USPC
370/252
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe configuration of spatial and power control parameters for uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Claims (32)

1. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a user equipment (UE) to:

determine that the UE is not configured with a pathloss reference reference signal (RS) parameter;

select, based on said determination that the UE is not configured with the pathloss reference RS parameter, a synchronization signal block (SSB) resource in which the UE has successfully decoded master information block (MIB) information as a pathloss reference resource; and

calculate a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission power based on the SSB resource.

2. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein to determine that the UE is not configured with the pathloss reference RS parameter, the UE is to check an availability of the pathloss reference RS parameter within an SRS resource set from radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

3. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 2 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to:

transmit an SRS on an SRS resource from the SRS resource set.

4. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to:

transmit an SRS with the SRS transmission power.

5. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further comprise:

determine a downlink pathloss estimate using the pathloss reference resource; and

calculate the SRS transmission power based on the downlink pathloss estimate.

6. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 5 , wherein the UE is to determine the downlink pathloss estimate using a synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) index that corresponds to the SSB resource.

7. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 5 , wherein to determine the downlink pathloss estimate, the UE is to:

measure a reference signal receive power (RSRP) of the SSB resource;

determine a configured transmit power for an SSB transmitted on the SSB resource based on radio resource control (RRC) signaling; and

compare the measured RSRP to the configured transmit power.

8. An apparatus comprising:

memory to store parameters configured by radio resource control (RRC) signaling; and

processing circuitry coupled with the memory, the processing circuitry to:

determine the stored parameters do not include a pathloss reference reference signal (RS) parameter;

select, based on said determination that the stored parameters do not include a pathloss reference RS parameter, a synchronization signal block (SSB) resource in which the UE has successfully decoded master information block (MIB) information as a pathloss reference resource; and

calculate a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission power based on the SSB resource.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to generate an SRS for transmission with the SRS transmission power.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the pathloss reference RS parameter comprises an RS index.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:

determine a downlink pathloss estimate using the pathloss reference resource; and

calculate the SRS transmission power based on the downlink pathloss estimate.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein to determine the downlink pathloss estimate, the processing circuitry is to:

measure a reference signal receive power (RSRP) of the SSB resource;

determine a configured transmit power for an SSB transmitted on the SSB resource based on radio resource control (RRC) signaling; and

compare the measured RSRP to the configured transmit power.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 2, 2019
From: YU, ZHIBIN; ZHANG, YUSHU
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049066/0583 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62677988 · May 30, 2018
Related Publication 20190261320A1 · Aug 22, 2019