Uplink repetition configuration

1. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving a downlink control message that schedules resources for transmitting repetitions of an uplink channel transmission;

identifying from the downlink control message a sounding reference signal resource indicator;

determining a plurality of sounding reference signal resources based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator;

transmitting the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a first of the repetitions according to a first sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources and transmitting a second of the repetitions according to a second sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources;

receiving an indication of a repetition factor, the repetition factor corresponding to a quantity of repetitions of the uplink channel transmission;

interpreting the repetition factor to indicate a total quantity of repetitions of the uplink channel transmission;

identifying that the repetition factor exceeds a quantity of sounding reference signal resources in the determined plurality of sounding reference signal resources; and

transmitting at least two of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission with a same one of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources corresponds to a respective spatial resource.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the spatial resource corresponds to a beam, a precoder, a panel, or a combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a configuration configuring the UE to interpret sounding reference signal resource indicators for uplink transmission repetitions.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the plurality of sounding reference signal resources comprises:

identifying a non-codebook sounding reference signal resource indicator table based at least in part on a maximum quantity of spatial layers supported by the UE; and

identifying a field of the non-codebook sounding reference signal resource indicator table based at least in part on a quantity of configured sounding reference signal resources and the sounding reference signal resource indicator, wherein the field indicates the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

interpreting the repetition factor to indicate a respective quantity of repetitions of the uplink channel transmission for different ones of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

mapping each of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources to a respective one of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission in a first sub-sequence of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission; and

mapping at least one of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources to a respective one of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission in a second sub-sequence of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

mapping a first of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources to at least two of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission in a first sub-sequence of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission; and

mapping a second of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources to at least two of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission in a second sub-sequence of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving control signaling indicating a configuration for mapping sounding reference signal resources to the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying that one of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission overlaps a transmission boundary in a time domain;

mapping a portion of the one of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission that precedes the transmission boundary to a first of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources; and

mapping a portion of the one of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission that follows the transmission boundary to a second of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources is different from the second of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources is the same as the second of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying from the downlink control message a second sounding reference signal resource indicator;

determining a second plurality of sounding reference signal resources based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator;

mapping the first of the repetitions to at least two of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources;

mapping the second of the repetitions to at least two of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources; and

mapping a third of the repetitions to at least two of the second plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

transmitting the first of the repetitions comprises transmitting over a first plurality of spatial layers and transmitting the third of the repetitions comprises transmitting over a second plurality of spatial layers.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying from the downlink control message a redundancy version indicator; and

mapping the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission to the plurality of sounding reference signal resources based at least in part on jointly decoding the sounding reference signal resource indicator and the redundancy version indicator.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

mapping a first transmit precoding matrix to a first of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources; and

mapping a second transmit precoding matrix to a second of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

17. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

mapping each of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission to different resources in a time domain.

18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

mapping each of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission to the same resources in a frequency domain.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink channel transmission comprises a single transport block.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the plurality of sounding reference signal resources is based at least in part on the UE being configured for non-codebook-based uplink communication.

21. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the plurality of sounding reference signal resources is based at least in part on the UE being configured for codebook-based uplink communication.

22. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmission of each of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission corresponds to a single spatial layer transmission.

23. An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

a processor,

memory in electronic communication with the processor, and

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive a downlink control message that schedules resources for transmitting repetitions of an uplink channel transmission;

identify from the downlink control message a sounding reference signal resource indicator;

determine a plurality of sounding reference signal resources based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator;

transmit the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a first of the repetitions according to a first sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources and transmitting a second of the repetitions according to a second sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources;

receive an indication of a repetition factor, the repetition factor corresponding to a quantity of repetitions of the uplink channel transmission;

interpret the repetition factor to indicate a total quantity of repetitions of the uplink channel transmission;

identify that the repetition factor exceeds a quantity of sounding reference signal resources in the determined plurality of sounding reference signal resources; and

transmit at least two of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission with a same one of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

24. An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

means for receiving a downlink control message that schedules resources for transmitting repetitions of an uplink channel transmission;

means for identifying from the downlink control message a sounding reference signal resource indicator;

means for determining a plurality of sounding reference signal resources based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator;

means for transmitting the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a first of the repetitions according to a first sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources and transmitting a second of the repetitions according to a second sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources,

means for receiving an indication of a repetition factor, the repetition factor corresponding to a quantity of repetitions of the uplink channel transmission;

means for interpreting the repetition factor to indicate a total quantity of repetitions of the uplink channel transmission;

means for identifying that the repetition factor exceeds a quantity of sounding reference signal resources in the determined plurality of sounding reference signal resources; and

means for transmitting at least two of the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission with a same one of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources.

25. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving a downlink control message that schedules resources for transmitting repetitions of an uplink channel transmission;

identifying from the downlink control message a sounding reference signal resource indicator;

determining a plurality of sounding reference signal resources based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator;

transmitting the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a first of the repetitions according to a first sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources and transmitting a second of the repetitions according to a second sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources; and

wherein the sounding reference signal resource indicator corresponds to a single bit, the method further comprising:

receiving a configuration for mapping single-bit sounding reference signal resource indicators to sounding reference signal resources indicated by two-bit sounding reference signal resource indicators,

wherein determining the plurality of sounding reference signal resources is based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator and the received configuration.

26. The method of claim 25 , wherein the configuration is based at least in part on the UE being configured for codebook-based uplink communication.

27. An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

a processor,

memory in electronic communication with the processor, and

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive a downlink control message that schedules resources for transmitting repetitions of an uplink channel transmission;

identify from the downlink control message a sounding reference signal resource indicator;

determine a plurality of sounding reference signal resources based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator; and

transmit the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a first of the repetitions according to a first sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources and transmitting a second of the repetitions according to a second sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources;

wherein the sounding reference signal resource indicator corresponds to a single bit, the method further comprising:

receiving a configuration for mapping single-bit sounding reference signal resource indicators to sounding reference signal resources indicated by two-bit sounding reference signal resource indicators,

wherein determining the plurality of sounding reference signal resources is based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator and the received configuration.

28. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving a downlink control message that schedules resources for transmitting repetitions of an uplink channel transmission;

identifying from the downlink control message a sounding reference signal resource indicator;

determining a plurality of sounding reference signal resources based at least in part on the sounding reference signal resource indicator;

transmitting the repetitions of the uplink channel transmission, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a first of the repetitions according to a first sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources and transmitting a second of the repetitions according to a second sounding reference signal resource of the plurality of sounding reference signal resources; and

wherein the UE is configured for codebook-based uplink communication and the sounding reference signal resource indicator comprises a two bit indication.