Granted Patent B2

US 12,634,971 · App. 17/853,350 · Granted May 19, 2026

Inventors: Guozeng Zheng (Shenzhen, CN); Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, CN); Huahua Xiao (Shenzhen, CN); Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION

H04W72/51H04L5/0051H04W72/0446H04W72/0453H04W72/23

Abstract

Claims (52)

1 . A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal, the wireless communication method comprising:

receiving, from a network entity, a terminal configuration associated with aperiodic positioning reference signals (PRSs), wherein the terminal configuration associated with each of the aperiodic PRSs comprises at least one of a trigger state identification, ID, frequency layer ID, or node ID information;

receiving, from a serving node of the wireless terminal, downlink control information (DCI) of triggering at least one of the aperiodic PRSs; and

receiving the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs based on the received DCI and the terminal configuration,

wherein the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs is received within at least one measurement gap in at least one measurement gap repetition period, and

wherein a time gap between a time of receiving the DCI and a time associated with the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is greater than or equal to a threshold, wherein the time associated with the earliest one of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is selected, based on a capability of the wireless terminal, from one of a starting time of a measurement gap in which the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is located or a time of receiving the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI.

2 . The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the terminal configuration is received via the serving node of the wireless terminal, or is transparent to the serving node.

3 . The wireless communication method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting, to the network entity or the serving node, a request command for the aperiodic PRS, wherein the request command comprises at least one of frequency information of the aperiodic PRS, node ID information, periodicity information indicating the aperiodic PRS or beam information of the aperiodic PRS.

4 . The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the DCI comprises a field of triggering the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs, wherein the field indicates at least one of trigger state ID information, frequency layer ID information, node ID information, resource set ID information, resource ID information, transmission offset information, path loss reference information or quasi-co-location information.

5 . The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein at least one time of receiving the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs is determined based on a time of receiving the DCI of triggering the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs and at least one PRS offset corresponding the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs,

wherein the time of receiving the PRS transmitted by the serving node out of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs is after the time of receiving the DCI of triggering the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs plus the PRS offset corresponding to the PRS transmitted by the serving node out of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs.

6 . The wireless communication method of claim 5 , wherein the time of receiving the PRS transmitted by a neighbor node out of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs is after a time of virtual DCI plus the PRS offset corresponding to the PRS transmitted by the neighbor node out of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs,

wherein the time of the virtual DCI is determined based on the time of receiving the DCI of triggering the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs and at least one of a subframe offset or a system frame number offset between the serving node and the neighbor node.

7 . A wireless communication method for use in a network entity, the wireless communication method comprising:

transmitting, to a wireless terminal, a terminal configuration associated with aperiodic positioning reference signals (PRSs); and

transmitting, to each of a serving node of the wireless terminal and at least one neighbor node, a node configuration associated with the aperiodic PRSs,

wherein at least one of the terminal configuration or the node configuration associated with each of the aperiodic PRSs comprises at least one of a trigger state identification, ID, frequency layer ID, or node ID information,

wherein the wireless terminal receives at least one of the aperiodic PRSs based on a downlink control information (DCI) of triggering the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs received from the serving node and the terminal configuration,

wherein the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs is received within at least one measurement gap in at least one measurement gap repetition period, and

wherein a time gap between a time of receiving the DCI and a time associated with the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is greater than or equal to a threshold, wherein the time associated with the earliest one of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is selected, based on a capability of the wireless terminal, from one of a starting time of a measurement gap in which the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is located or a time of receiving the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI.

8 . The wireless communication method of claim 7 ,

wherein the terminal configuration: is transmitted via the serving node of the wireless terminal, or is transparent to the serving node.

9 . The wireless communication method of claim 7 , further comprising:

receiving, from the wireless terminal, a request command for the aperiodic PRS;

transmitting, to the serving node of the wireless terminal, information associated with at least one of the aperiodic PRSs for the wireless terminal; or

transmitting, to the serving node, a request command for the aperiodic PRS;

wherein the request command comprises at least one of frequency information of the aperiodic PRS, node ID information, periodicity information indicating the aperiodic PRS or beam information of the aperiodic PRS.

10 . A wireless communication method for use in a serving node, the wireless communication method comprising:

receiving, from a network entity, a node configuration associated with aperiodic positioning reference signals (PRSs), wherein the node configuration associated with each of the aperiodic PRS comprises at least one of a trigger state identification, ID, frequency layer ID, or node ID information;

transmitting, to a wireless terminal, downlink control information (DCI) of triggering at least one of the aperiodic PRSs; and

transmitting the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs based on the DCI,

wherein the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs is received within at least one measurement gap in at least one measurement gap repetition period, and

wherein a time gap between a time of receiving the DCI and a time associated with the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is greater than or equal to a threshold, wherein the time associated with the earliest one of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is selected, based on a capability of the wireless terminal, from one of a starting time of a measurement gap in which the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI is located or a time of receiving the earliest PRS of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs triggered by the DCI.

11 . The wireless communication method of claim 10 ,

wherein the DCI comprises a field of triggering the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs, wherein the field indicates at least one of trigger state ID information, frequency layer ID information, node ID information, resource set ID information, resource ID information, transmission offset information, path loss reference information or quasi-co-location information.

12 . The wireless communication method of claim 10 , further comprising:

receiving, from the network entity, a terminal configuration of the aperiodic PRSs associated with the wireless terminal; and

transmitting, to the wireless terminal, the terminal configuration, wherein the terminal configuration is transparent to the serving node.

13 . The wireless communication method of claim 12 , further comprising:

receiving, from the wireless terminal or the network entity, a request command for the aperiodic PRS,

wherein the request command comprises at least one of frequency information of the aperiodic PRS, node ID information, periodicity information indicating the aperiodic PRS or beam information of the aperiodic PRS.

14 . The wireless communication method of claim 12 , further comprising:

receiving, from the network entity, information associated with the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs.

15 . The wireless communication method of claim 10 , further comprising:

transmitting, to at least one neighbor node, information associated with at least one PRS transmitted by the at least one neighbor node out of the at least one of the aperiodic PRSs.

16 . A wireless terminal, comprising:

a communication unit and a processor configured to perform a wireless communication method of claim 1 .

17 . A network entity, comprising:

a communication unit and a processor configured to perform a wireless communication method of claim 7 .

18 . A serving node, comprising:

a communication unit and a processor configured to perform a wireless communication method of claim 10 .

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