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US 12,301,515 · App. 18/379,462 · Granted May 13, 2025

Method and apparatus for power control of sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission

Inventors: Sung-Hyuk Shin (Northvale, NJ); Joseph S. Levy (Merrick, NY); Kyle Jung-Lin Pan (Saint James, NY); Philip J. Pietraski (Jericho, NY); Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, NY)
Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
H04L5/0096H04B7/061H04B7/0691H04W52/32H04W52/34
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Patent No.
US 12,301,515
App. No.
18/379,462
Granted
May 13, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for sounding reference signal (SRS) power control for a wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) are disclosed. These methods and apparatus include methods and apparatus for carrier-specific and carrier-common SRS power control in WTRUs that utilize carrier aggregation techniques. These methods and apparatus also include methods and apparatus for SRS power control in WTRUs utilizing both carrier aggregation and time division multiplexing (TDM) techniques. Additionally, these methods and apparatus include methods and apparatus for SRS power control for WTRUs utilizing multiple input multiple output MIMO operation. Methods and apparatus for SRS overhead reduction and power management in a WTRU are also disclosed.

Claims (17)

1. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

a processor configured to at least:

receive sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information, wherein the SRS configuration information indicates a plurality of SRS parameter sets;

receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission, wherein the PDCCH transmission indicates a first SRS parameter set out of the plurality of SRS parameter sets to be used for a first SRS transmission and a second SRS parameter set out of the plurality of SRS parameter sets to be used for a second SRS transmission, wherein the first SRS parameter set is associated with a first carrier and the second SRS parameter set is associated with a second carrier; and

transmit the first SRS transmission on the first carrier and the second SRS transmission on the second carrier, wherein the first SRS transmission is transmitted based on the indicated first SRS parameter set, and wherein the second SRS transmission is transmitted based on the indicated second SRS parameter set.

2. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to receive the SRS configuration information using radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

3. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the PDCCH transmission comprises an aperiodic SRS request.

4. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein each SRS parameter set of the plurality of SRS parameter sets comprises at least one of a transmission comb, a time offset, a time duration, an SRS bandwidth, a cyclic shift, or a frequency hopping bandwidth.

5. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the first carrier and the second carrier are configured using higher layer signaling.

6. A method comprising:

receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information, wherein the SRS configuration information indicates a plurality of SRS parameter sets;

receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission, wherein the PDCCH transmission indicates a first SRS parameter set out of the plurality of SRS parameter sets to be used for a first SRS transmission and a second SRS parameter set out of the plurality of SRS parameter sets to be used for a second SRS transmission, wherein the first SRS parameter set is associated with a first carrier and the second SRS parameter set is associated with a second carrier; and

transmitting the first SRS transmission on the first carrier and the second SRS transmission on the second carrier, wherein the first SRS transmission is transmitted based on the indicated first SRS parameter set, and wherein the second SRS transmission is transmitted based on the indicated second SRS parameter set.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising receiving the SRS configuration information using radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the PDCCH transmission comprises an aperiodic SRS request.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein each SRS parameter set of the plurality of SRS parameter sets comprises at least one of a transmission comb, a time offset, a time duration, an SRS bandwidth, a cyclic shift, or a frequency hopping bandwidth.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the first carrier and the second carrier are configured using higher layer signaling.

Continuity (6)
Continuation 17716570 · Apr 8, 2022
Continuation 16379478 · Apr 9, 2019
Continuation 14167649 · Jan 29, 2014
Continuation 12725733 · Mar 17, 2010
Provisional Application 61160979 · Mar 17, 2009
Related Publication 20240072983A1 · Feb 29, 2024
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