Granted Patent B2

US 12,335,188 · App. 17/782,004 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, CA); Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, CA); Yi Huang (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04L5/0051H04L5/0007

Abstract

Claims (66)

1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:

determining, by a user equipment (UE), whether to time-domain bundle two sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions of at least one of a same SRS resource or of two different SRS resources based at least on one or more bundling factors, wherein an SRS resource corresponding to the same SRS resource or the two different SRS resources is a collection of SRS transmissions over one or more slots, and wherein each SRS transmission of the collection of SRS transmissions occupies one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and wherein the one or more bundling factors correspond to time-domain bundling any of the SRS transmissions repeatedly across a time period, and wherein the at least one of the same SRS resource corresponds to an aperiodic SRS; and

transmitting, by the UE to a network entity, the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions of the at least one of same SRS resource or of two different SRS resources based at least on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions and based on at least one slot offset.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource or of the two different SRS resources based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions are associated with a same use-case; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination that each of the two SRS transmissions are associated with the same use-case.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource or of the two different SRS resources based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions are configured within a same bandwidth part (BWP); and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination that each of the two SRS transmissions are configured within the same BWP.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource or of the two different SRS resources based at least on the one bundling factors further comprises determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions have a same time-domain behavior; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions based on a determination that each of the two SRS transmissions have the same time-domain behavior.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the time-domain behavior corresponds to at least one of periodic, semi-persistent, and aperiodic.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource or of the two different SRS resources based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions are configured without frequency domain hopping; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions further comprises transmitting the bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination that each of the two SRS transmissions are configured without frequency domain hopping.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource or of the two different SRS resources based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions are configured to be transmitted on a same bandwidth; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination that each of the two SRS transmissions are configured to be transmitted on a same bandwidth.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource or of the two different SRS resources based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions are configured with a same power control parameters; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS resources based on a determination that each of the two SRS transmissions are configured the same power control parameters.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the same power control parameters include at least one of higher layer parameters, alpha, p0, pathlossReferenceRS, and SRS-PowerControlAdjustmentStates, or a combination.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions are configured with the same power control parameters further comprises determining whether a path-loss measurement fails to satisfy a threshold.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions are configured with the same power control parameters further comprises determining whether the UE transmits the two SRS transmissions with a power level satisfying a threshold power.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource or of the two different SRS resources based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions are transmitted on slots with indices smaller than a threshold reported by the UE through capability signaling; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions based on a determination that each of the two SRS transmissions are transmitted on slots with indices smaller than the threshold reported by the UE through capability signaling.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether each of the two SRS transmissions share at least one use-case, wherein a first one of the two SRS transmissions is associated with at least two use-cases and a second one of the two SRS transmissions is associated with a at least one use-case being the same as one of the at least two use-cases; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination that each of the two SRS transmissions share at least one use-case.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether a first SRS resource is associated with an antenna switching use-case; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination to time-domain bundle the SRS transmissions further comprises:

repeatedly performing SRS transmissions of the first SRS resource for a configured number of repetitions upon completing transmission of all repetitions of the one SRS resource, before performing SRS transmissions of a second SRS resource, different than the first, associated with an antenna switching use-case.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to time-domain bundle the SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource repeatedly across the time period further comprises determining whether the same SRS resource is not configured for frequency hopping and no change of active bandwidth portion occurs between one or more transmissions of the same SRS resource; and

wherein transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions of the same SRS resource based on a determination to time-domain bundle the SRS transmissions further comprises repeatedly transmitting the SRS transmissions with time-domain bundling.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the same SRS resource corresponds to an aperiodic SRS; and

wherein repeatedly transmitting the same SRS resource with time-domain bundling across the one or more transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on multiple slot offsets.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the same SRS resource corresponds to an aperiodic SRS; and

wherein repeatedly transmitting the same SRS resource with time-domain bundling across the one or more transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a number of repetitions to be transmitted.

18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that at least one of the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions is dropped due to a collision with another UL channel; and

halting the time-domain bundling of the SRS transmissions based on a determination that at least one time-domain bundled SRS transmissions is dropped due to the collision with the UL channel.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to bundle two or more SRS transmissions of the at least one of the same SRS resource based at least on the one or more bundling factors further comprises determining whether a path-loss measurement satisfies a measurement threshold or whether the UE transmits the SRS transmissions with a power level greater than a power threshold;

wherein repeatedly transmitting the SRS resource with time-domain bundling across the one or more transmissions further comprises transmitting the time-domain bundled SRS transmissions based on a determination that the path-loss measurement satisfies the measurement threshold or that the UE transmits an SRS transmission with the power level greater than the power threshold.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the same SRS resource corresponds to an aperiodic SRS; and

further comprising time-domain bundling only the one or more SRS transmissions of the SRS resource triggered by the same downlink control information (DCI).

21. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a command to change a spatial relation information during repeatedly transmissions of the SRS resource; and

restarting time-domain bundling of the SRS resource upon application of the updated spatial relation information.

22. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the same SRS resource corresponds to an activated Semi-Persistent (SP) SRS resource; and further comprising:

receiving a deactivation command;

halting time-domain bundling of the SRS transmissions of the SRS resource in response to receiving the deactivation command;

receiving an activation command; and

resuming time-domain bundling of the SRS transmissions of the SRS resource in response to receiving the activation command.

23. The method of claim 1 , wherein the SRS resource is associated with a bundling flag which is configured to indicate whether SRS transmissions of the SRS resource are time-domain bundled, wherein the bundling flag is configured for more than one SRS resources belonging on a SRS resource set corresponding to a collection of SRS resources.

24. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining whether a first SRS transmission is within a threshold number of OFDM symbols to a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and

preventing an update of a precoder for any transmission of the SRS resource based on a determination that the first transmission is within the threshold number of OFDM symbols to the CSI-RS resource.

25. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining whether a first SRS transmission is within a threshold number of OFDM symbols to a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and

performing time-domain bundling between SRS transmissions that occur before the threshold number of OFDM symbols separately than SRS transmissions that occur after the threshold number of OFDM symbols.

26. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

a transceiver;

a memory configured to store instructions; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to:

determine, by a user equipment (UE), whether to time-domain bundle two sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions of at least one of a same SRS resource or of two different SRS resources based at least on one or more bundling factors, wherein an SRS resource corresponding to the same SRS resource or the two different SRS resources is a collection of SRS transmissions over one or more slots, and wherein each SRS transmission of the collection of SRS transmissions occupies one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and wherein the one or more bundling factors correspond to time-domain bundling any of the SRS transmissions repeatedly across a time period, and wherein the at least one of the same SRS resource corresponds to an aperiodic SRS; and

transmit, by the UE to a network entity, the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions of the at least one of same SRS resource or of two different SRS resources based at least on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions and based on at least one slot offset.

27. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

means for determining, by a user equipment (UE), whether to time-domain bundle two sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions of at least one of a same SRS resource or of two different SRS resources based at least on one or more bundling factors, wherein an SRS resource corresponding to the same SRS resource or the two different SRS resources is a collection of SRS transmissions over one or more slots, and wherein each SRS transmission of the collection of SRS transmissions occupies one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and wherein the one or more bundling factors correspond to time-domain bundling any of the SRS transmissions repeatedly across a time period, and wherein the at least one of the same SRS resource corresponds to an aperiodic SRS; and

means for transmitting, by the UE to a network entity, the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions of the at least one of same SRS resource or of two different SRS resources based at least on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions and based on at least one slot offset.

28. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising code executable by one or more processors to:

determine, by a user equipment (UE), whether to time-domain bundle two sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions of at least one of a same SRS resource or of two different SRS resources based at least on one or more bundling factors, wherein an SRS resource corresponding to the same SRS resource or the two different SRS resources is a collection of SRS transmissions over one or more slots, and wherein each SRS transmission of the collection of SRS transmissions occupies one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and wherein the one or more bundling factors correspond to time-domain bundling any of the SRS transmissions repeatedly across a time period, and wherein the at least one of the same SRS resource corresponds to an aperiodic SRS; and

transmit, by the UE to a network entity, the time-domain bundled two SRS transmissions of the at least one of same SRS resource or of two different SRS resources based at least on a determination to time-domain bundle the two SRS transmissions and based on at least one slot offset.

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