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Granted Patent B2
US 12,317,098 · App. 17/311,292 · Granted May 27, 2025

Terminal, method, base station, and system for controlling SRS transmission

Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima (Tokyo, JP); Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo, JP); Takayuki Furuta (Tokyo, JP); Yuta Oguma (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W16/28H04B7/0617H04B7/086H04B7/088H04L5/0051H04W56/001
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Patent No.
US 12,317,098
App. No.
17/311,292
Granted
May 27, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that transmits information that indicates which beam correspondence that uses which downlink reference signal is supported; a receiving section that receives spatial relation information that indicates a downlink reference signal having a spatial relation with a sounding reference signal; and a control section that determines a spatial domain filter used to transmit an uplink signal, based on a spatial domain filter used to receive the downlink reference signal.

Claims (25)

1. A terminal comprising:

a transmitter that transmits, independently, first Radio Resource Control (RRC) information element indicating whether or not to support beam correspondence using a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and second RRC information element indicating whether or not to support beam correspondence using a synchronization signal block (SSB);

a processor; and

a receiver that:

when the receiver receives spatial relation information generated based on the second RRC information element and indicating a spatial relation between sounding reference signal (SRS) and the SSB, the processor controls transmission of the SRS by using a same spatial domain transmission filter as a spatial domain transmission filter used for reception of the SSB, and

when the receiver receives spatial relation information generated based on the first RRC information element and indicating a spatial relation between the SRS and the CSI-RS, the processor controls transmission of the SRS by using a same spatial domain transmission filter as a spatial domain transmission filter used for reception of the CSI-RS.

2. A radio communication method for a terminal, comprising:

transmitting, independently, first Radio Resource Control (RRC) information element indicating whether or not to support beam correspondence using a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and second RRC information element indicating whether or not to support beam correspondence using a synchronization signal block (SSB);

when receiving spatial relation information generated based on the second RRC information element and indicating a spatial relation between a sounding reference signal (SRS) and the SSB, controlling transmission of the SRS by using a same spatial domain transmission filter as a spatial domain transmission filter used for reception of the SSB; and

when receiving spatial relation information generated based on the first RRC information element and indicating a spatial relation between the SRS and the CSI-RS, controlling transmission of the SRS by using a same spatial domain transmission filter as a spatial domain transmission filter used for reception of the CSI-RS.

3. A base station comprising:

a receiver that receives, independently, first Radio Resource Control (RRC) information element indicating whether or not to support beam correspondence using a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and second RRC information element indicating whether or not to support beam correspondence using a synchronization signal block (SSB);

a processor; and

a transmitter that:

when the transmitter transmits spatial relation information generated based on the second RRC information element and indicating a spatial relation between a sounding reference signal (SRS) and the SSB, the processor controls reception of the SRS transmitted, from a terminal, by using a same spatial domain transmission filter as a spatial domain transmission filter used for reception of the SSB, and

when the transmitter transmits spatial relation information generated based on the first RRC information element and indicating a spatial relation between the SRS and the CSI-RS, the processor controls reception of the SRS transmitted, from the terminal, by using a same spatial domain transmission filter as a spatial domain transmission filter used for reception of the CSI-RS.

4. A system comprising a terminal and a base station, wherein the terminal comprises:

a transmitter that transmits, independently, first Radio Resource Control (RRC) information element indicating whether or not to support beam correspondence using a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and second RRC information element indicating whether or not to support beam correspondence using a synchronization signal block (SSB);

a processor; and

a receiver that:

when the receiver receives spatial relation information generated based on the second RRC information element and indicating a spatial relation between sounding reference signal (SRS) and the SSB, the processor of the terminal controls transmission of the SRS by using a same spatial domain transmission filter as a spatial domain transmission filter used for reception of the SSB, and

when the receiver receives spatial relation information generated based on the first RRC information element and indicating a spatial relation between the SRS and the CSI-RS, the processor of the terminal controls transmission of the SRS by using a same spatial domain transmission filter as a spatial domain transmission filter used for reception of the CSI-RS, and

the base station comprises:

a transmitter that transmits the spatial relation information; and

a processor that controls reception of the first RRC information element, the second RRC information element, and the SRS.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2021
From: KAKISHIMA, YUICHI; MATSUMURA, YUKI; FURUTA, TAKAYUKI; OGUMA, YUTA
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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