Electronic device, user equipment, method and computer readable storage medium

1. A user equipment comprising:

a wireless transceiver; and

processing circuitry configured to:

receive a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) within a Resource Block (RB) on each of a plurality of different beams, each PRS received from a respective one of a plurality of transmit and receive ports (TRPs);

based on the received PRSs, determine beam information of each TRP of the plurality of TRPs;

send the beam information of each TRP to a positioning server to enable the positioning server to determine a position of the user equipment,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to receive a time frequency position of each PRS,

wherein a frequency domain position of the time frequency position of each PRS is determined according to each of:

a subcarrier interval of a respective RB;

a physical layer cell identification of a cell where the user equipment is located; and

a bandwidth for transmitting the PRS, and

wherein a time domain position of the time frequency position is configured according to the subcarrier interval.

2. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the positioning server is one of the TRPs.

3. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the time frequency position of the PRS is determined based also on at least one of the following parameters:

a number of the plurality of network side devices;

a link quality between the one network device and the user equipment; or

an identification of the user equipment.

4. The user equipment of claim 3 , wherein the frequency domain position of the time frequency position of each PRS is further determined according to a number of resource elements (REs) occupied by a respective PRS on each Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the RB being no more than two.

5. A method performed by a user equipment in a wireless network, the method comprising:

receiving a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) within a Resource Block (RB) on each of a plurality of different beams, each PRS received from a respective one of a plurality of transmit and receive ports (TRPs);

based on the received PRSs, determining beam information of each TRP of the plurality of TRPs;

sending the beam information of each TRP to a positioning server to enable the positioning server to determine a position of the user equipment,

wherein the method further comprises receiving a time frequency position of each PRS,

wherein a frequency domain position of the time frequency position of each PRS is determined according to each of:

a subcarrier interval of a respective RB;

a physical layer cell identification of a cell where the user equipment is located; and

a bandwidth for transmitting the PRS, and

wherein a time domain position of the time frequency position is configured according to the subcarrier interval.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the positioning server is one of the TRPS.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the time frequency position of the PRS is determined based also on at least one of the following parameters:

a number of the plurality of network side devices;

a link quality between the one network device and the user equipment; or

identification of the user equipment.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the frequency domain position of the time frequency position of each PRS is further determined according to a number of resource elements (REs) occupied by a respective PRS on each Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the RB being no more than two.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions to cause a user equipment in a wireless network to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) within a Resource Block (RB) on each of a plurality of different beams, each PRS received from a respective one of a plurality of transmit and receive ports (TRPs);

based on the received PRSs, determining beam information of each TRP of the plurality of TRPs;

sending the beam information of each TRP to a positioning server to enable the positioning server to determine a position of the user equipment,

wherein the method further comprises receiving a time frequency position of each PRS,

wherein a frequency domain position of the time frequency position of each PRS is determined according to each of:

a subcarrier interval of a respective RB;

a physical layer cell identification of a cell where the user equipment is located; and

a bandwidth for transmitting the PRS, and

wherein a time domain position of the time frequency position is configured according to the subcarrier interval.

10. An electronic device used as one of a plurality of network side devices configured to provide location services to a user equipment (UE), comprising:

a wireless transceiver; and

processing circuitry configured to:

transmit a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) within a Resource Block (RB) on each of a plurality of different beams to the UE, each PRS transmitted from a respective one of the plurality of network side devices

wherein, based on the transmitted PRSs, the UE:

determines beam information of each of the plurality of network side devices; and

sends the beam information of each of the plurality of network side devices to a positioning server to enable the positioning server to determine a position of the UE,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to transmit a time frequency position of the PRS to the UE,

wherein a frequency domain position of the time frequency position of the PRS is determined by the electronic device according to each of:

a subcarrier interval of a respective RB;

a physical layer cell identification of a cell where the UE is located; and

a bandwidth for transmitting the PRS, and wherein a time domain position of the time frequency position is configured by the electronic device according to the subcarrier interval.