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US 12,368,552 · App. 18/173,265 · Granted Jul 22, 2025

Fast adaptation of transmission properties of SRS resource sets

Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, CA); Weimin Duan (San Diego, CA); Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, CA); Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni (San Diego, CA); Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04L5/0048H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,368,552
App. No.
18/173,265
Granted
Jul 22, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for fast adaptation of transmission properties of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information, configuring the UE with one or more SRS resource sets, wherein each of the one or more SRS resource sets comprises one or more SRS resources; receiving signaling comprising a field indicating which of the one or more SRS resources in the one or more SRS resource sets are active and which of the one or more SRS resources in the one or more SRS resources sets are inactive; and transmitting one or more SRSs using only the one or more SRS resources that are active.

Claims (59)

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

receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information, configuring the UE with one or more SRS resource sets, wherein each of the one or more SRS resource sets comprises a plurality of SRS resources;

receiving signaling comprising a media access control-control element (MAC-CE), wherein the signaling applies to semi-persistent SRS resources sets and wherein the signaling is received when a number of SRS resources within the one or more SRS resource sets, or across all the SRS resource sets, is above a threshold; and

the signaling includes:

a field that indicates activation information or inactivation information for the one or more SRS resource sets; and

an indication including updated identifier (ID) of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) associated with a specific SRS resource set of the one or more SRS resource sets, wherein the indication does not include updates for one or more other SRS resource set parameters; and

transmitting one or more SRSs in the one or more SRS resource sets based on the field that indicates the activation information or the inactivation information for the one or more SRS resource sets.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the field comprises an N-bit field in the MAC-CE, wherein N comprises a number of the SRS resources of the plurality of SRS resources in the one or more SRS resource sets.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more SRS resource sets comprise one or more aperiodic SRS resource sets.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the signaling provides the indication of which of the SRS resources of the plurality of SRS resources in the one or more SRS resource sets are active and which of the SRS resources of the plurality of SRS resources in the one or more SRS resources sets are inactive for one or more downlink control information (DCI) codepoints.

5. The method of claim 3 , further comprising receiving, in the signaling, an indication of a slot offset update for a specific SRS resource set in the one or more aperiodic SRS resource sets, wherein the slot offset update indicates an offset in a number of slots between a triggering of downlink control information (DCI) and transmission of one or more SRSs corresponding to the specific SRS resource set.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein:

the slot offset update only applies to the specific SRS resource set but not to other SRS resources sets of the one or more SRS resource sets.

7. The method of claim 5 , further comprising updating, based on the slot offset update, a slot offset for the specific SRS resource set without updating the one or more other SRS resource set parameters.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more other SRS resource set parameters comprise at least one of a number of symbols, a slot offset, frequency hopping parameters, or a scrambling ID of SRS resources.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving the CSI-RS based, at least in part on the updated ID of the CSI-RS; and

using the CSI-RS to derive a transmit precoder for SRS resources of the plurality of the SRS resources in the specific SRS resource set, wherein the one or more SRS resource sets are configured to be used for at least one of antenna switching, codebook-based UL transmission, or non-codebook-based UL transmission, or a combination thereof.

10. A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information, configuring the UE with one or more SRS resource sets, wherein each of the one or more SRS resource sets comprises a plurality of SRS resources;

receiving signaling comprising a media access control-control element (MAC-CE) including an indication of one or more updated parameters for a specific SRS resource set in the one or more SRS resource sets, wherein the signaling applies to semi-persistent SRS resources sets and wherein the signaling is received when a number of SRS resources within the one or more SRS resource sets, or across all the SRS resource sets, is above a threshold;

the one or more updated parameters comprise an updated identifier (ID) of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for the specific SRS resource set of the one or more SRS resource sets; and

the MAC-CE does not include updates for one or more other SRS resource set parameters; and

updating the ID of the CSI-RS associated with the specific SRS resource set; and

transmitting one or more SRSs according to the one or more updated parameters.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein:

the one or more updated parameters further comprise a slot offset update for the specific SRS resource set in the one or more SRS resource sets;

the one or more SRS resource sets comprise one or more aperiodic SRS resource sets; and

the slot offset update indicates an offset in a number of slots between a triggering of downlink control information (DCI) and transmission of one or more SRSs corresponding to the specific SRS resource set.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the slot offset update only applies to the specific SRS resource set but not to other SRS resources sets of the one or more SRS resource sets.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising updating, based on the slot offset update, a slot offset for the specific SRS resource set without updating the one or more other SRS resource set parameters.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the one or more other SRS resource set parameters comprise at least one of a number of symbols, a slot offset, frequency hopping parameters, or a scrambling ID of SRS resources.

15. A method for wireless communication by a base station (BS), comprising:

transmitting sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information to a user equipment (UE), configuring the UE with one or more SRS resource sets, wherein each of the one or more SRS resource sets comprises a plurality of SRS resources;

transmitting signaling to the UE comprising a media access control-control element (MAC-CE), wherein:

the signaling applies to semi-persistent SRS resources sets; and

the signaling includes:

a field that indicates activation information or inactivation information for the one or more SRS resource sets, wherein the field comprises an N-bit field in the MAC-CE, wherein N comprises a number of the SRS resources of the plurality of SRS resources in the one or more SRS resource sets; and

an indication including updated identifier (ID) of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) associated with a specific SRS resource set of the one or more SRS resource sets, wherein the indication does not include updates for one or more other SRS resource set parameters; and

receiving one or more SRSs from the UE on SRS resources of the plurality of SRS resources that are indicated as active.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the signaling is transmitted when a number of SRS resources within one or more SRS resource sets, or across all the SRS resource sets, is above a threshold.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more SRS resource sets comprise one or more aperiodic SRS resource sets.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the signaling provides the indication of which of the SRS resources of the plurality of SRS resources in the one or more SRS resource sets are active and which of the SRS resources of the plurality of SRS resources in the one or more SRS resources sets are inactive for one or more downlink control information (DCI) codepoints.

19. The method of claim 17 , further comprising transmitting, in the signaling, an indication of a slot offset update for a specific SRS resource set in the one or more aperiodic SRS resource sets, wherein the slot offset update indicates an offset in a number of slots between a triggering of downlink control information (DCI) and transmission of one or more SRSs corresponding to the specific SRS resource set.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the slot offset update only applies to the specific SRS resource set but not to other SRS resources sets of the one or more SRS resource sets.

21. The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more other SRS resource set parameters comprise at least one of a number of symbols, a slot offset, frequency hopping parameters, or a scrambling ID of SRS resources.

22. A method for wireless communication by a base station (BS), comprising:

transmitting sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information to a user equipment (UE), configuring the UE with one or more SRS resource sets, wherein each of the one or more SRS resource sets comprises a plurality of SRS resources;

transmitting signaling to the UE comprising a media access control-control element (MAC-CE) including an indication of one or more updated parameters for a specific SRS resource set in the one or more SRS resource sets, wherein:

the signaling applies to semi-persistent SRS resources sets and the signaling is transmitted when a number of SRS resources within one or more SRS resource sets, or across all the SRS resource sets, is above a threshold;

the one or more updated parameters comprise an updated identifier (ID) of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for the specific SRS resource set of the one or more SRS resource sets; and

the MAC-CE does not include updates for one or more other SRS resource set parameters; and

receiving one or more SRSs from the UE according to the one or more updated parameters.

23. The method of claim 22 , wherein:

the one or more updated parameters further comprise a slot offset update for the specific SRS resource set in the one or more SRS resource sets;

the one or more SRS resource sets comprise one or more aperiodic SRS resource sets;

the slot offset update indicates an offset in a number of slots between a triggering of downlink control information (DCI) and transmission of one or more SRSs corresponding to the specific SRS resource set; and

the slot offset update only applies to the specific SRS resource set but not to other SRS resources sets of the one or more SRS resource sets.

24. The method of claim 22 , wherein the one or more other SRS resource set parameters comprise at least one of a number of symbols, a slot offset, frequency hopping parameters, or a scrambling ID of SRS resources.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2023
From: MANOLAKOS, ALEXANDROS; DUAN, WEIMIN; ABDELGHAFFAR, MUHAMMAD SAYED KHAIRY; VITTHALADEVUNI, PAVAN KUMAR; MUKKAVILLI, KRISHNA KIRAN
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
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Priority Claims (1)
GR 20190100430 · Oct 3, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17024118 · Sep 17, 2020
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