Transmission of phase tracking reference signals (PT-RS) for bandwidth parts

1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) operable to decode a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) configuration received from a base station for a PT-RS, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

decode, at the UE, the PT-RS configuration received from the base station for the PT-RS, wherein the PT-RS configuration includes a time density for the PT-RS and a frequency density for the PT-RS; and

encode, at the UE, the PT-RS for transmission in an uplink to the base station in accordance with the PT-RS configuration received from the base station; and

a memory interface configured to send to a memory the PT-RS configuration.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a transceiver configured to:

receive the PT-RS configuration from the base station; and

transmit the PT-RS to the base station.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the PT-RS is configured based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) utilized at the UE and an allocated bandwidth for the UE.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the PT-RS configuration is received at the UE via higher layer signaling.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the time density for the PT-RS is 2 or 4, and the frequency density for the PT-RS is 2 or 4.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the PT-RS configuration for the UE is selected from multiple PT-RS configurations with different time densities and frequency densities.

7. An apparatus of a base station operable to encode a resource mapping pattern of a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) for transmission to a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

determine, at the base station, the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS;

encode, at the base station, control signaling for transmission to the UE, wherein the control signaling indicates the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS; and

decode, at the base station, one or more PT-RS received from the UE in an uplink in accordance with the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS indicated by the base station; and

a memory interface configured to send to a memory the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

compensate for a phase rotation based on the one or more PT-RS received from the UE in the uplink in accordance with the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS; and

estimate a channel quality of a channel between the base station and the UE after the phase rotation is compensated based on the one or more PT-RS received from the UE.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to encode the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS for transmission to the UE via higher layer signaling or a radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to encode the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS for transmission to the UE via an enhanced master information block (xMIB) or an enhanced system information block (xSIB).

11. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to encode the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS for transmission to the UE via downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI includes one or more values to indicate different resource mapping patterns for the PT-RS.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) utilized by the base station.

13. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS with a subcarrier offset that is based on a cell identity (ID) or a virtual cell ID.

14. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS based on a presence of a phase noise limited scenario in the wireless network or a noise and carrier frequency offset (CFO) limited scenario in the wireless network.

15. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the resource mapping pattern for the PT-RS indicates that there is no PT-RS transmission from the UE.

16. At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon for decoding a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) configuration received at a user equipment (UE) from a base station for a PT-RS, the instructions when executed by one or more processors of the UE perform the following:

decoding, at the UE, the PT-RS configuration received from the base station for the PT-RS, wherein the PT-RS configuration includes a time density for the PT-RS and a frequency density for the PT-RS; and

encoding, at the UE, the PT-RS for transmission in an uplink to the base station in accordance with the PT-RS configuration received from the base station.

17. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the PT-RS is configured based on a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) utilized at the UE and an allocated bandwidth for the UE.

18. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the PT-RS configuration is received at the UE via higher layer signaling.

19. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the time density for the PT-RS is 2 or 4, and the frequency density for the PT-RS is 2 or 4.

20. The at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the PT-RS configuration for the UE is selected from multiple PT-RS configurations with different time densities and frequency densities.