IP Library Granted Patent US 12,739,821
Granted Patent B2
US 12,739,821 · App. 17/759,184 · Granted Sep 15, 2026

UE sounding procedure between component carriers

Inventors: Yu Zhang (San Diego, CA); Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, CA); Peter Gaal (San Diego, CA); Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, CA); Yi Huang (San Diego, CA); Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego, CA); Wanshi Chen (San Diego, CA); Wei Yang (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorproated
H04W72/1268H04L5/001H04L5/0044H04L5/0048H04L5/0051H04L5/0053
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Patent No.
US 12,739,821
App. No.
17/759,184
Granted
Sep 15, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for handling collisions between PUCCH/PUSCH carrying certain reporting and sounding reference signals (SRS). The techniques provide rules that a user equipment (UE) may apply to decide if and when to drop SRS or PUCCH/PUSCH transmissions scheduled on overlapping time resources in different component carriers.

Claims (29)

1 . A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

determining a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission scheduled on a first component carrier (CC) overlaps with a report transmission scheduled on a second CC, wherein the report transmission comprises a synchronization signal block (SSB)-based beam report;

deciding to drop the SRS transmission based on the determination; and

transmitting the report transmission based on the decision.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the SRS transmission is scheduled on the first CC without a scheduled physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the SRS transmission comprises a periodic SRS; and

the SSB-based beam report comprises a periodic SSB-based beam report without acknowledgment feedback.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the SRS transmission comprises an aperiodic SRS; and

the SSB-based beam report comprises an aperiodic SSB-based beam report.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the decision to drop is based, at least in part, on a time-domain behavior of the SRS transmission.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the decision to drop is based, at least in part, on a usage of the SRS transmission.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the decision to drop is based, at least in part, on the SRS transmission being for a non-positioning use.

8 . A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a processing system configured to:

determine a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission scheduled on a first component carrier (CC) overlaps with a report transmission scheduled on a second CC, wherein the report transmission comprises a synchronization signal block (SSB)-based beam report scheduled for transmission,

decide to drop the SRS transmission based on the determination; and

transmit the report transmission based on the decision.

9 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein the SRS transmission is scheduled on the first CC without a scheduled physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission.

10 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein:

the SRS transmission comprises a periodic SRS; and

the SSB-based beam report comprises a periodic SSB-based beam report without acknowledgment feedback.

11 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein:

the SRS transmission comprises an aperiodic SRS; and

the SSB-based beam report comprises an aperiodic SSB-based beam report.

12 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein the decision to drop is based, at least in part, on a time-domain behavior of the SRS transmission.

13 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein the decision to drop is based, at least in part, on a usage of the SRS transmission.

14 . The UE of claim 13 , wherein the decision to drop is based, at least in part, on the SRS transmission being for a non-positioning use.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2022
From: ZHANG, YU; MANOLAKOS, ALEXANDROS; GAAL, PETER; ABDELGHAFFAR, MUHAMMAD SAYED KHAIRY; HUANG, YI; MUKKAVILLI, KRISHNA KIRAN; CHEN, WANSHI; YANG, WEI
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 061006/0391 →
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