Uplink transmission for multi-panel operation

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a user equipment (UE), communication resources associated with Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) in a communications network, the communication resources comprising a plurality of antenna ports of the UE that are configured to transmit a number of beams associated with the SRS;

generating, by the UE, a configuration message that includes capability information of the UE, the capability information associated with the communication resources and comprising information indicating a maximum number of antenna ports of the UE associated with the SRS; and

transmitting the configuration message to a base station in the communications network.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the capability information comprises a panel index specifying the plurality of antenna ports of the UE.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the capability information further comprises information indicating a power control parameter for each respective panel.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of antenna ports are associated with a plurality of panels of the UE, the method further comprising:

transmitting, to the base station, an indication of a first uplink control information (UCI) type and a second UCI type via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) message using a first panel of the plurality of panels; and

transmitting an indication of the second UCI type via PUCCH using a second panel of the plurality of panels.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first UCI type is a hybrid automatic request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK), and the second UCI type is a channel state information (CSI) report or scheduling request (SR).

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the capability information comprises information indicating a maximum number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE.

7. A processing circuitry for a user equipment (UE), the processing circuitry comprising:

one or more processors that are configured to execute instructions stored in memory to perform operations comprising:

determining communication resources associated with Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) in a communications network, the communication resources comprising a plurality of antenna ports of the UE that are configured to transmit a number of beams associated with the SRS;

generating, by the UE, a configuration message that includes capability information of the UE, the capability information associated with the communication resources and comprising information indicating a maximum number of the antenna ports of the UE associated with the SRS; and

transmitting the configuration message to a base station in the communications network.

8. The processing circuitry of claim 7 , wherein the capability information comprises a panel index specifying the plurality of antenna ports of the UE.

9. The processing circuitry of claim 8 , wherein the capability information further comprises information indicating a power control parameter for each respective panel.

10. The processing circuitry of claim 7 , wherein are associated with a plurality of panels of the UE, the processing circuitry further comprising:

transmitting, to the base station, an indication of a first uplink control information (UCI) type and a second UCI type via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) message using a first panel of the plurality of panels; and

transmitting an indication of the second UCI type via PUCCH using a second panel of the plurality of panels.

11. The processing circuitry of claim 10 , wherein the first UCI type is a hybrid automatic request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK), and the second UCI type is a channel state information (CSI) report or scheduling request (SR).

12. The processing circuitry of claim 7 , wherein the capability information comprises information indicating a maximum number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE.

13. A method comprising:

determining, by a base station, a maximum number of antenna ports of a user equipment (UE) that can be used to transmit a number of beams associated with a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) in a communications network;

generating, by the base station, a configuration message that includes capability information associated with communication resources of the UE corresponding to transmission of SRS in the communications network, the capability information indicating a plurality of the antenna ports of the UE associated with the SRS; and

transmitting the configuration message to the UE in the communications network.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the capability information comprises a panel index specifying the plurality of antenna ports of the UE.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the capability information further comprises information indicating a power control parameter for each respective panel.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the plurality of antenna ports are associated with a plurality of panels of the UE, the method further comprising:

transmitting, by the UE to the base station, an indication of a first uplink control information (UCI) type and a second UCI type via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) message using a first panel of the plurality of panels; and

transmitting, by the UE to the base station, an indication of the second UCI type via PUCCH using a second panel of the plurality of panels.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first UCI type is a hybrid automatic request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK), and the second UCI type is a channel state information (CSI) report or scheduling request (SR).

18. The method of claim 13 , wherein the capability information comprises information indicating a maximum number of beams that can be simultaneously transmitted by the UE.