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Granted Patent B2
US 12,375,246 · App. 18/246,319 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Techniques for indicating sounding reference signal resources

Inventors: Kexin Xiao (Shanghai, CN); Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, CA); Yu Zhang (San Diego, CA); Bo Chen (Beijing, CN); Runxin Wang (San Diego, CA); Yeliz Tokgoz (San Diego, CA); Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04L5/0051H04B7/0456H04B7/0602H04B7/0628H04L5/0094H04W72/20
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Patent No.
US 12,375,246
App. No.
18/246,319
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a capability message indicating a first number of one or more transmit antennas supported by the UE for antenna switching and a second number of ports supported for uplink transmission that exceeds the first number of one or more transmit antennas. The UE may receive, based on the capability message, a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration indicating a mapping between each SRS resource or SRS resource group and a respective bit sequence of a set of bit sequences. The UE may receive a control message comprising one or more bit sequences of the set of bit sequences indicating one or more SRS resources or an SRS resource group based on the mapping. The UE may transmit one or more SRS signals based on the control message.

Claims (53)

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

a processor,

memory coupled with the processor; and

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

transmit a capability message indicating a first number of one or more transmit antennas supported by the UE for antenna switching and a second number of ports supported for uplink transmission that exceeds the first number of one or more transmit antennas;

receive, based at least in part on the capability message, a sounding reference signal configuration indicating a mapping between each sounding reference signal resource group for at least a subset of a plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups and a respective bit sequence of a plurality of bit sequences;

receive a control message comprising a first bit sequence of the plurality of bit sequences indicating a first sounding reference signal resource group of the subset of the plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups based at least in part on the mapping;

transmit a first sounding reference signal in a first sounding reference signal resource of the first sounding reference signal resource group based at least in part on the control message; and

transmit a second sounding reference signal in a second sounding reference signal resource of the first sounding reference signal resource group based at least in part on the control message.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to receive the sounding reference signal configuration further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive the sounding reference signal configuration indicating a mapping table that indicates the mapping between each sounding reference signal resource group for at least the subset of the plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups and the respective bit sequence of the plurality of bit sequences.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to receive the sounding reference signal configuration further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive the sounding reference signal configuration indicating a number of configured ports for antenna switching and a number of configured ports for uplink transmission, wherein the mapping is based at least in part on the number of configured ports for antenna switching and the number of configured ports for uplink transmission.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to receive the sounding reference signal configuration indicating the mapping further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive the sounding reference signal configuration indicating a mapping between each sounding reference signal group of the plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups and the respective bit sequence of the plurality of bit sequences.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to transmit the capability message further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

transmit the capability message indicating a third number of one or more receive antennas supported for antenna switching, the sounding reference signal configuration based at least in part on the third number of receive antennas supported for antenna switching.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the third number of one or more receive antennas exceeds the first number of one or more transmit antennas.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to receive the control message further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive a downlink control information message comprising the first bit sequence.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein each sounding reference signal resource group comprises a single sounding reference signal resource of the sounding reference signal resource group.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to receive the sounding reference signal configuration further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive the sounding reference signal configuration indicating a codebook sounding reference signal configuration.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein each bit sequence of the plurality of bit sequences comprises a single bit.

11. An apparatus for wireless communications at a base station, comprising:

a processor,

memory coupled with the processor; and

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

receive, from a user equipment (UE), a capability message indicating a first number of one or more transmit antennas supported by the UE for antenna switching and a second number of ports supported for uplink transmission that exceeds the first number of one or more transmit antennas;

transmit, based at least in part on the capability message, a sounding reference signal configuration indicating a mapping between each sounding reference signal resource group for at least a subset of a plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups and a respective bit sequence of a plurality of bit sequences;

transmit a control message comprising a first bit sequence of the plurality of bit sequences indicating a first sounding reference signal resource group of the subset of the plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups based at least in part on the mapping;

receive a first sounding reference signal in a first sounding reference signal resource of the first sounding reference signal resource group based at least in part on the control message; and

receive a second sounding reference signal in a second sounding reference signal resource of the first sounding reference signal resource group based at least in part on the control message.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the instructions to transmit the sounding reference signal configuration further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

transmit the sounding reference signal configuration indicating a mapping table that indicates the mapping between each sounding reference signal resource group for at least the subset of the plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups and the respective bit sequence of the plurality of bit sequences.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the instructions to transmit the sounding reference signal configuration further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

transmit the sounding reference signal configuration indicating a number of configured ports for antenna switching and a number of configured ports for uplink transmission, wherein the mapping is based at least in part on the number of configured ports for antenna switching and the number of configured ports for uplink transmission.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the instructions to transmit the sounding reference signal configuration indicating the mapping further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

transmit the sounding reference signal configuration indicating a mapping between each sounding reference signal group of the plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups and the respective bit sequence of the plurality of bit sequences.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the instructions to receive the capability message further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive the capability message indicating a third number of one or more receive antennas supported for antenna switching, the sounding reference signal configuration based at least in part on the third number of receive antennas supported for antenna switching.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the third number of one or more receive antennas exceeds the first number of one or more transmit antennas.

17. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the instructions to transmit the control message further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

transmit a downlink control information message comprising the first bit sequence.

18. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein each sounding reference signal resource group comprises a single sounding reference signal resource of the sounding reference signal resource group.

19. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the instructions to transmit the sounding reference signal configuration further are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:

transmit the sounding reference signal configuration indicating a codebook sounding reference signal configuration.

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

transmitting a capability message indicating a first number of one or more transmit antennas supported by the UE for antenna switching and a second number of ports supported for uplink transmission that exceeds the first number of one or more transmit antennas;

receiving, based at least in part on the capability message, a sounding reference signal configuration indicating a mapping between each sounding reference signal resource group for at least a subset of a plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups and a respective bit sequence of a plurality of bit sequences;

receiving a control message comprising a first bit sequence of the plurality of bit sequences indicating a first sounding reference signal resource group of the subset of the plurality of sounding reference signal resource groups based at least in part on the mapping;

transmitting a first sounding reference signal in a first sounding reference signal resource of the first sounding reference signal resource group based at least in part on the control message; and

transmitting a second sounding reference signal in a second sounding reference signal resource of the first sounding reference signal resource group based at least in part on the control message.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2023
From: XIAO, KEXIN; ABDELGHAFFAR, MUHAMMAD SAYED KHAIRY; ZHANG, YU; CHEN, BO; WANG, RUNXIN; TOKGOZ, YELIZ; MUKKAVILLI, KRISHNA KIRAN
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 063066/0388 →
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