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Granted Patent B2
US 9,955,479 · App. 15/302,477 · Granted Apr 24, 2018

Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving sounding reference signal in wireless communication system

Inventors: Bonghoe Kim (Seoul, KR); Jonghyun Park (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W72/0446H04L5/0048H04L5/14H04W72/0413H04W72/1268
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Patent No.
US 9,955,479
App. No.
15/302,477
Granted
Apr 24, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting Time Division Duplex (TDD) includes: receiving transmission comb (TC) information indicating any one of a total of 4 TCs supported by a 4-TC SRS; mapping the 4-TC SRS to an SRS symbol of an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) of a TDD special subframe based on the TC information; and transmitting the 4-TC SRS through the UpPTS. In the mapping of the 4-TC SRS, the 4-TC SRS is mapped in a unit of 1 resource element (RE) per 4 REs on the SRS symbol based on a TC indicated by the TC information. The transmission of the 4-TC SRS is supported when a plurality of symbols are configured in the UpPTS.

Claims (147)

1. A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting Time Division Duplex (TDD), the method comprising:

receiving transmission comb (TC) information indicating any one of a total of 4 TCs supported by a 4-TC SRS;

mapping the 4-TC SRS to an SRS symbol of an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) of a TDD special subframe based on the TC information; and

transmitting the 4-TC SRS through the UpPTS,

wherein in the mapping of the 4-TC SRS, the 4-TC SRS is mapped in a unit of 1 resource element (RE) per 4 REs on the SRS symbol based on a TC indicated by the TC information, and

wherein the transmission of the 4-TC SRS is supported when a plurality of symbols are configured in the UpPTS.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein

when a single symbol is configured in the UpPTS, the single symbol supports transmission of a 2-TC SRS other than the 4-TC SRS.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an index of the SRS symbol to which the 4-TC SRS mapped is fixed within the UpPTS.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmission of the 4-TC SRS is not allowed in an uplink subframe in which a 2-TC SRS is transmitted.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving information on an additional symbol available for SRS transmission from a base station (BS) through RRC signaling.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the 4-TC SRS is transmitted through one or two of a plurality of antenna ports of the UE.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein:

if the 4-TC SRS is transmitted through a single antenna port, the single antenna port srs p (n) is determined by the following equation A,

srs

p

⁡

(

n

)

=

n

⁢

⁢

mod

⁢

⁢

M

⁢

⁢

n

=

⌊

(

10

·

n

f

+

⌊

n

s

2

⌋

)

T

SRS

⌋

[

Equation

⁢

⁢

A

]

where M is the number of reception (Rx) antennas of the UE, n f is a system frame number (SFN), n s is a slot number, and T SRS is a UE-specific SRS transmission periodicity.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein:

if the 4-TC SRS is transmitted through two antenna ports, the two antenna ports srs p (n) and srs p+1 (n) are determined by the following equation B,

srs

p

⁡

(

n

)

=

2

·

(

n

⁢

⁢

mod

⁢

⁢

M

2

)

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⁢

srs

p

+

1

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(

n

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=

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·

(

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2

)

+

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⁢

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n

=

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f

+

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n

s

2

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)

T

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[

Equation

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⁢

B

]

where M is the number of reception (Rx) antennas of the UE, n f is a system frame number (SFN), n s is a slot number, and T SRS is a UE-specific SRS transmission periodicity.

9. A user equipment (UE) for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system supporting Time Division Duplex (TDD) comprising:

a receiver to receive transmission comb (TC) information indicating any one of a total of 4 TCs supported by a 4-TC SRS;

a processor to map the 4-TC SRS to an SRS symbol of an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) of a TDD special subframe based on the TC information; and

a transmitter to transmit the 4-TC SRS through the UpPTS,

wherein in mapping the 4-TC SRS the processor maps the 4-TC SRS in a unit of 1 resource element (RE) per 4 REs on the SRS symbol based on a TC indicated by the TC information, and

wherein the 4-TC SRS transmission is supported when a plurality of symbols are configured in the UpPTS.

10. A method for receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system supporting Time Division Duplex (TDD) comprising:

transmitting transmission comb (TC) information indicating any one of a total of 4 TCs supported by a 4-TC SRS; and

receiving the 4-TC SRS mapped to an SRS symbol of an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) of a TDD special subframe based on the TC information,

wherein the 4-TC SRS is mapped in a unit of 1 resource element (RE) per 4 REs on the SRS symbol based on a TC indicated by the TC information, and

wherein the reception of the 4-TC SRS is supported when a plurality of symbols are configured in the UpPTS.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein

when a single symbol is configured in the UpPTS, the single symbol supports transmission of a 2-TC SRS other than the 4-TC SRS.

12. The method according to claim 10 , wherein an index of the SRS symbol to which the 4-TC SRS mapped is fixed within the UpPTS.

13. The method according to claim 10 , wherein a transmission of the 4-TC SRS is not allowed in an uplink subframe in which a 2-TC SRS is transmitted.

14. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE) through RRC signaling, information on an additional symbol available for SRS transmission.

15. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the 4-TC SRS is transmitted through one or two of a plurality of antenna ports of a user equipment (UE).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 6, 2016
From: KIM, BONGHOE; PARK, JONGHYUN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62145530 · Apr 10, 2015
Related Publication 20170150499A1 · May 25, 2017