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Granted Patent B2
US 11,589,381 · App. 17/176,175 · Granted Feb 21, 2023

Method and apparatus for transmitting sounding reference signal in wireless communication system of unlicensed band and method and apparatus for triggering sounding reference signal transmission

Inventors: Jung Sun Um (Daejeon, KR); Hoiyoon Jung (Daejeon, KR); Seung Keun Park (Daejeon, KR); Sungjin Yoo (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
H04W72/14H04L5/005H04L5/0048H04L5/0051H04L5/0053H04L27/0006H04L27/261H04W16/14H04W72/042H04W72/0446H04W72/1294H04L5/0035H04L25/0224H04W72/1289H04W74/0808H04W84/12
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Patent No.
US 11,589,381
App. No.
17/176,175
Granted
Feb 21, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting, by a terminal, a sounding reference signal (SRS). The terminal receives a grant for uplink multiple subframes from a base station. The terminal determines a first subframe for an SRS transmission of the terminal among the uplink multiple subframes on the basis of SRS transmission position information received from the base station. Further, the terminal transmits the SRS in the first subframe.

Claims (24)

1. A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) to a base station, the method comprising:

performing a channel access procedure to transmit the SRS in an unlicensed band according to a channel access scheme; and

transmitting the SRS to the base station when a channel in the unlicensed band is determined to be idle by the channel access procedure,

wherein the channel access scheme is determined to be a first channel access scheme when the SRS belongs to a remaining channel occupancy time or to be a second channel access scheme when the SRS does not belong to the remaining channel occupancy time and the remaining channel occupancy time is determined by the base station in the unlicensed band.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the remaining channel occupancy time is indicated by information about the channel occupancy time which is transmitted from the base station to the user equipment.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the information about the channel occupancy time is transmitted to the user equipment through common downlink control information (DCI).

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the DCI is included in a subframe in which the SRS is determined to be transmitted.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the information about the channel occupancy time indicates remaining channel occupancy.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing the channel access procedure comprises performing the channel access procedure according to the second channel access scheme use in which a random backoff is used.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing the channel access procedure comprises performing the channel access procedure according to the first channel access scheme in which a minimum sensing interval is used.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein a time length of the minimum sensing interval is 25 μs.

9. An apparatus for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) to a base station, the apparatus comprising:

a processor; a memory; and a communication device,

wherein the processor executes a program stored in the memory to perform:

performing a channel access procedure to transmit the SRS in an unlicensed band according to a channel access scheme; and

transmitting the SRS to the base station when a channel in the unlicensed band is determined to be idle by the channel access procedure, and

the channel access scheme is determined to be a first channel access scheme when the SRS belongs to a remaining channel occupancy time or to be a second channel access scheme when the SRS does not belong to the remaining channel occupancy time and the remaining channel occupancy time is determined by the base station in the unlicensed band.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the remaining channel occupancy time is indicated by information about the channel occupancy time which is transmitted from the base station to the user equipment.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the information about the channel occupancy time is transmitted to the user equipment through common downlink control information (DCI).

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the DCI is included in a subframe in which the SRS is determined to be transmitted.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the information about the channel occupancy time indicates remaining channel occupancy.

14. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the performing the channel access procedure comprises performing the channel access procedure according to the second channel access scheme in which a random backoff is used.

15. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the performing the channel access procedure comprises performing the channel access procedure according to the first channel access scheme in which a minimum sensing interval is used.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein a time length of the minimum sensing interval is 25 μs.

Priority Claims (7)
KR 10-2015-0188802 · Dec 29, 2015 · national
KR 10-2016-0011803 · Jan 29, 2016 · national
KR 10-2016-0040443 · Apr 1, 2016 · national
KR 10-2016-0054764 · May 3, 2016 · national
KR 10-2016-0059061 · May 13, 2016 · national
KR 10-2016-0103160 · Aug 12, 2016 · national
KR 10-2016-0179245 · Dec 26, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15769897
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