Granted Patent B2

US 12,267,270 · App. 17/905,279 · Granted Apr 1, 2025

Inventors: Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Huaning Niu (San Jose, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Sigen Ye (San Diego, CA); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: APPLE INC.

H04L5/0051H04W8/22H04W16/28H04W76/15

Abstract

Claims (52)

1. A wireless device, comprising:

at least one antenna; and

a processor;

wherein the wireless device is configured to:

determine whether simultaneous transmission of at least two sounding reference signals (SRSs) is allowed;

if it is determined that the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is allowed, transmit the at least two SRSs simultaneously; and

if it is determined that the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is not allowed:

transmit one SRS of the at least two SRSs, and drop the other SRS of the at least two SRSs; and

determine priority of each of the at least two SRSs,

wherein the one SRS of the at least two SRSs with higher priority is transmitted, and the other SRS of the at least two SRSs with lower priority is dropped,

wherein the priority is determined by usage of each of the at least two SRSs,

wherein the usage is selected from a group comprising at least codebook (CB), non-codebook (NCB), beam management (BM) and antenna switching (AS), and

wherein priority of a SRS for CB or NCB is higher than priority of a SRS for AS, and priority of a SRS for AS is higher that priority of a SRS for BM.

2. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device is further configured to:

determine that the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is not allowed based on a scheduling restriction.

3. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the priority is determined by time domain behavior of each of the at least two SRSs, wherein the time domain behavior is selected from a group comprising at least aperiodic, semi-persistent and periodic, and wherein priority of an aperiodic SRS is higher than priority of a semi-persistent SRS, and priority of a semi-persistent SRS is higher that a periodic SRS.

4. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the priority is determined by a SRS resource set ID or a SRS resource ID associated with each of the at least two SRSs, wherein priority of a SRS associated with a lower SRS resource set ID or a lower SRS resource ID is higher than priority of a SRS associated with a higher SRS resource set ID or a higher SRS resource ID.

5. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the priority is determined by a serving sell ID associated with each of the at least two SRSs, wherein priority of a SRS associated with a lower serving sell ID is higher than priority of a SRS associated with a higher serving sell ID.

6. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein all symbols of the SRS with lower priority are dropped if SRS resources for the at least two SRSs are partially overlapped.

7. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein only overlapped symbols of the SRS with lower priority are dropped if SRS resources for the at least two SRSs are partially overlapped.

8. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device is further configured to:

receive a control signaling from a network device, wherein the control signaling indicates whether to drop all symbols or only overlapped symbols of a SRS if SRS resources for SRSs are partially overlapped.

9. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is allowed, and the wireless device is further configured to:

if total transmission power of the at least two SRSs exceeds maximum transmission power, scale transmission power of the at least two SRSs such that the total transmission power does not exceed the maximum transmission power.

10. The wireless device of claim 9 , wherein the transmission power of each of the at least two SRSs is scaled to a same transmission power.

11. The wireless device of claim 9 , wherein the transmission power of each of the at least two SRSs is scaled by a common scaling factor.

12. The wireless device of claim 9 , wherein the transmission power of a SRS of the at least two SRSs with lower priority is scaled down.

13. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device is further configured to:

transmit, to a network device, capability information of the wireless device on simultaneous transmission of SRSs for different cases separately.

14. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device is further configured to:

transmit, to a network device, capability information on the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs via MAC control element (CE) or uplink control information (UCI).

15. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is allowed if one or more of the following configurations of the at least two SRSs are the same:

spatial relation;

usage; or

time domain behavior.

16. A network device, comprising:

at least one antenna; and

a processor;

wherein the network device is configured to:

transmit a control signaling to a wireless device;

receive one SRS of at least two SRSs from the wireless device, wherein the other SRS of the at least two SRSs is dropped by the wireless device, wherein the control signaling indicates whether to drop all symbols or only overlapped symbols of the other SRS of the at least two SRSs if SRS resources for the at least two SRSs are partially overlapped; and

receive, from the wireless device, capability information of the wireless device on simultaneous transmission of SRSs for different cases separately.

17. A method performed by a wireless device, comprising:

determining whether simultaneous transmission of at least two sounding reference signals (SRSs) is allowed;

if it is determined that the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is allowed, transmitting the at least two SRSs simultaneously; and

if it is determined that the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is not allowed:

transmitting one SRS of the at least two SRSs, and dropping the other SRS of the at least two SRSs; and

determining priority of each of the at least two SRSs,

wherein the one SRS of the at least two SRSs with higher priority is transmitted, and the other SRS of the at least two SRSs with lower priority is dropped,

wherein the priority is determined by usage of each of the at least two SRSs,

wherein the usage is selected from a group comprising at least codebook (CB), non-codebook (NCB), beam management (BM) and antenna switching (AS), and

wherein priority of a SRS for CB or NCB is higher than priority of a SRS for AS, and priority of a SRS for AS is higher that priority of a SRS for BM.

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