Method and device for aperiodic SRS in UE and device base station
View Patent ↗The present invention provides a UE, a method for an aperiodic SRS in a base station and a device. For a problem of a scheduling restriction of a traditional A-SRS in unlicensed spectrum communication, the present disclosure provides the method and apparatus for the A-SRS, wherein physical-layer signaling is used to indicate a sending frequency band of an SRS to implement flexible scheduling of the aperiodic SRS. As an embodiment, the number of antenna ports of the A-SRS is configured by high-layer signaling identified by a logical cell index. A physical resource occupied by the aperiodic SRS is configured by high-layer signaling identified by a carrier index. The logical cell index at different frameworks may correspond to different physical carriers.
1. A method for an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) in a user equipment, comprising the following steps:
Step A: receiving, by the user equipment, a higher layer signaling, wherein the higher layer signaling comprises L sets of configuration information, and one set of the L sets of configuration information comprising a configuration index and a frequency band;
Step B: receiving a downlink signaling, and the downlink signaling comprises a first index; and
Step C: transmitting a target SRS on a frequency band of a first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is the one set of the L sets of configuration information with the configuration index equal to the first index in the L sets of configuration information;
wherein the downlink signaling is a physical layer signaling, frequency bands of the L sets of the configuration information are deployed on an unlicensed spectrum, configuration indexes of the L sets of configuration information are unique, configuration indexes are an integer, and the L is a positive integer.
2. The method for the aperiodic SRS in the user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the step B further comprises:
Step B 1 : processing a physical layer data according to the downlink signaling;
wherein if the downlink signaling is a downlink scheduling signaling, the processing is receiving; if the downlink signal is an uplink scheduling signaling, the processing is transmitting.
3. The method for the aperiodic SRS in the user equipment according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one of the below:
the higher layer signaling comprises logical information, and the logical information comprises a logical cell index; the downlink signaling comprises a virtual index, the virtual index equals to the logical cell index, and the logical cell index is a positive integer; the logical information comprises logical SRS information, and the logical SRS information comprises an antenna port number of the target SRS; and
the higher layer signaling comprises physical information, the physical information comprises a carrier index and physical SRS information in the frequency band of the first configuration information, and the physical SRS information comprises a physical resource occupied by the target SRS.
4. The method for the aperiodic SRS in the user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency band of the first configuration information is discrete on a frequency domain; or the downlink signaling comprises scheduling information, and a format of the scheduling information is one scheduling information format of the downlink control indicator (DCI) formats {0, 1A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 4}; or the configuration index is a positive integer.
5. The method for the aperiodic SRS in the user equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the configuration information comprises a SRS configuration, the target SRS complies with the SRS configuration of the first configuration information, and the SRS configuration comprises an antenna port number and an occupied physical resource.
6. A method for an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) in a base station, comprising the following steps:
Step A: transmitting, by the base station, a higher layer signaling, wherein the higher layer signaling comprises L sets of configuration information, and one set of the L sets of configuration information comprising a configuration index and a frequency band;
Step B: transmitting a downlink signaling, and the downlink signaling comprises a first index; and
Step C: receiving a target SRS on a frequency band of a first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is the one set of the L sets of configuration information with the configuration index equal to the first index in the L sets of configuration information;
wherein the downlink signaling is a physical layer signaling, frequency bands of the L sets of the configuration information are deployed on an unlicensed spectrum, configuration indexes of the L sets of configuration information are unique, the configuration indexes are an integer, and the L is a positive integer.
7. The method for the aperiodic SRS in the base station according to claim 6 , wherein the step B further comprises:
Step B 1 : processing a physical layer data according to the downlink signaling;
wherein if the downlink signaling is a downlink scheduling signaling, the processing is transmitting; if the downlink signal is an uplink scheduling signaling, the processing is receiving.
8. The method for the aperiodic SRS in the base station according to claim 6 , further comprising at least one of the below:
the higher layer signaling comprises the logical information, and the logical information comprises a logical cell index; the downlink signaling comprises a virtual index, the virtual index equals to the logical cell index and the logical cell index is an integer; the logical information comprises the logical SRS information, and the logical SRS information comprises an antenna port number of the target SRS; and
the higher layer signaling comprises the physical information, and the physical information comprises a carrier index and a physical SRS information in the frequency band of the first configuration information, and the physical SRS information comprises a physical resource occupied by the target SRS.
9. The method for the aperiodic SRS in the base station according to claim 6 , wherein the frequency band of the first configuration information is discrete on a frequency domain; or the downlink signaling comprises scheduling information, and a format of the scheduling information is one scheduling information format of the downlink control indicator (DCI) formats {0, 1A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 4}; or the configuration index is a positive integer.
10. The method for the aperiodic SRS in the base station according to claim 6 , wherein the configuration information comprises a SRS configuration, the target SRS complies with the SRS configuration of the first configuration information, and the SRS configuration comprises an antenna port number and an occupied physical resource.
11. A user equipment, comprising:
a processor and a memory storing program instructions, wherein the processor executes the program instructions stored in memory to:
receive a higher layer signaling, wherein the higher layer signaling comprises L sets of configuration information, and one set of the L sets of configuration information comprising a configuration index and a frequency band;
receive a downlink signaling, and the downlink signaling comprises a first index; and
transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS) on a frequency band of a first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is the one set of the L sets of configuration information with the configuration index equal to the first index in the L sets of configuration information;
wherein the downlink signaling is a physical layer signaling, frequency bands of the L sets of the configuration information are deployed on an unlicensed spectrum, configuration indexes of the L sets of configuration information are independent, the configuration indexes are an integer, and the L is a positive integer.
12. The user equipment according to claim 11 , wherein the higher layer signaling further comprises at least one of the following:
the logical information, and the logical information comprises a logical cell index; the downlink signaling comprises a virtual index, the virtual index equals to the logical cell index and the logical cell index is an integer; the logical information comprises the logical SRS information, and the logical SRS information comprises an antenna port number of the target SRS; and
the physical information, and the physical information comprises a carrier index and a physical SRS information in the frequency band of the first configuration information, and the physical SRS information comprises a physical resource occupied by the target SRS.
13. A base station equipment, comprising:
a processor and a memory storing program instructions, wherein the processor executes the program instructions stored in memory to:
transmit a higher layer signaling, wherein the higher layer signaling comprises L sets of configuration information, and one set of the L sets of configuration information comprising a configuration index and a frequency band;
transmit a downlink signaling, and the downlink signaling comprises a first index; and
receive a target sounding reference signal (SRS) on a frequency band of a first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is the one set of the L sets of configuration information with the configuration index equal to the first index in the L sets of configuration information;
wherein the downlink signaling is a physical layer signaling, frequency bands of the L sets of the configuration information are deployed on an unlicensed spectrum, configuration indexes of the L sets of configuration information are independent, the configuration indexes are an integer, and the L is a positive integer.
14. The base station equipment according to claim 13 , wherein the higher layer signaling further comprises at least one of the following:
the logical information, and the logical information comprises a logical cell index; the downlink signaling comprises a virtual index, the virtual index equals to the logical cell index and the logical cell index is an integer; the logical information comprises the logical SRS information, and the logical SRS information comprises an antenna port number of the target SRS; and
the physical information, and the physical information comprises a carrier index and a physical SRS information in the frequency band of the first configuration information, and the physical SRS information comprises a physical resource occupied by the target SRS.