Granted Patent B2

US 12,457,142 · App. 17/864,784 · Granted Oct 28, 2025

Inventor: Hualei Wang (Beijing, CN)

Assignee: BEIJING UNISOC COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

H04L27/2613H04L27/2605H04W72/0453H04W72/23

Abstract

Claims (58)

1. A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS), the method comprising:

transmitting, by a terminal device, a first SRS to a network device in an SRS region of N sub-bands of an SRS bandwidth, wherein N is an integer and greater than 1, each of the N sub-bands comprising one SRS region, and a resource block (RB) quantity in the SRS region being less than or equal to the RB quantity in a sub-band that the SRS region belongs to,

wherein

an RB configuration quantity in a sub-band of the SRS bandwidth is M, M being an integer and greater than 0,

a SRS resource comprises a start configuration position of the SRS region in a sub-band, and

transmitting, by the terminal device, the first SRS to the network device in the SRS region of the N sub-bands of the SRS bandwidth comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, a start position of an SRS region of a first sub-band among the N sub-bands to be the start configuration position, in response to an RB quantity in the first sub-band being M, wherein the first sub-band is any one of the N sub-bands; and

transmitting, by the terminal device, the first SRS to the network device in the SRS region of the first sub-band.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein prior to transmitting, by the terminal device, the first SRS to the network device in the SRS region of the N sub-bands of the SRS bandwidth, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the terminal device, SRS configuration information and second downlink control information (DCI), wherein the second DCI is used for triggering a group of SRS resources indicated in the SRS configuration information and indicating that the terminal device transmits the first SRS on the SRS resource.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein subsequent to transmitting, by the terminal device, the first SRS, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the terminal device, first DCI;

obtaining, by the terminal device, sub-band indication information from the first DCI, the sub-band indication information indicating a target sub-band among the N sub-bands; and

transmitting, by the terminal device, a second SRS to the network device in the target sub-band.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein transmitting, by the terminal device, the second SRS to the network device in the target sub-band comprises:

transmitting, by the terminal device, the second SRS to the network device in the target sub-band on the SRS resource triggered by the second DCI.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein subsequent to obtaining, by the terminal device, the sub-band indication information from the first DCI and prior to transmitting, by the terminal device, the second SRS to the network device in the target sub-band, the method further comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, a position encoding of the target sub-band in the SRS bandwidth according to the sub-band indication information and the SRS resource, wherein the position encoding of the target sub-band indicates the target sub-band among the N sub-bands.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the sub-band indication information comprises one sub-band position information, the SRS resource comprises a start configuration position of the SRS region in a sub-band, and determining, by the terminal device, the position encoding of the target sub-band in the SRS bandwidth according to the sub-band indication information and the SRS resource comprises:

performing, by the terminal device, a modulo operation on a sum of a position encoding in the sub-band position information and the start configuration position with N, to obtain a position of the target sub-band.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the sub-band indication information comprises one sub-band position information, the SRS resource comprises a start configuration position and a cyclic-shifted candidate position of the SRS region in a sub-band, an RB configuration quantity in a sub-band of the SRS bandwidth is M, and determining, by the terminal device, the position encoding of the target sub-band in the SRS bandwidth according to the sub-band indication information and the SRS resource comprises:

performing, by the terminal device, a modulo operation on the candidate position and a difference between N and M, to obtain a first modulo result; and

performing, by the terminal device, a modulo operation on a sum of a position encoding in the sub-band position information, the start configuration position, and the first modulo result with N, to obtain the position encoding of the target sub-band.

8. The method of claim 3 , wherein the sub-band indication information comprises at least two sub-band position information, and prior to receiving, by the terminal device, the first DCI, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the terminal device, position indication information, wherein the position indication information indicates target sub-band position information among the at least two sub-band position information; and

a position encoding in the target sub-band position information is a position encoding of the target sub-band in the SRS bandwidth, wherein the position encoding of the target sub-band indicates the target sub-band among the N sub-bands.

9. A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS), the method comprising:

transmitting, by a terminal device, a first SRS to a network device in an SRS region of N sub-bands of an SRS bandwidth, wherein N is an integer and greater than 1;

a resource block (RB) configuration quantity in a sub-band of the SRS bandwidth being M, M being an integer and greater than 0;

the N sub-bands being at least one of a first sub-band and a second sub-band, an RB quantity in the first sub-band being M, and an RB quantity in the second sub-band being less than M;

each of the N sub-bands comprising one SRS region, and an RB quantity in the SRS region being less than or equal to the RB quantity in a sub-band that the SRS region belongs to.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein a start configuration position of the SRS region in a sub-band is indicated by the network device, and transmitting, by the terminal device, the first SRS to the network device in the SRS region of the N sub-bands of the SRS bandwidth comprises:

determining, by the terminal device, a start position of an SRS region of the first sub-band to be the start configuration position, in response to the N sub-bands comprising the first sub-band; and

transmitting, by the terminal device, the first SRS to the network device in the SRS region of the first sub-band among the N sub-bands.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein transmitting, by the terminal device, the first SRS to the network device in the SRS region of the N sub-bands of the SRS bandwidth comprises:

in response to the N sub-bands comprising the second sub-band,

determining, by the terminal device, not to transmit the first SRS in the second sub-band; or

determining, by the terminal device, a start position of an SRS region of the second sub-band to be a first RB position in the second sub-band that is available for SRS transmission, and transmitting the first SRS to the network device in the SRS region of the second sub-band among the N sub-bands.

12. A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS), the method comprising:

receiving, by a network device, a first SRS transmitted by a terminal device, the first SRS being transmitted by the terminal device in an SRS region of N sub-bands of an SRS bandwidth, wherein N is an integer and greater than 1, each of the N sub-bands comprising one SRS region, and a resource block (RB) quantity in the SRS region being less than or equal to the RB quantity in a sub-band that the SRS region belongs to;

wherein an RB configuration quantity in a sub-band of the SRS bandwidth is M, M being an integer and greater than 0,

a SRS resource, for transmitting the first SRS, comprises a start configuration position of the SRS region in a sub-band,

a start position of an SRS region of a first sub-band among the N sub-bands is determined as the start configuration position by the terminal device, and

the first SRS received by the network device is transmitted in the SRS region of the first sub-band.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein prior to receiving, by the network device, the first SRS transmitted by the terminal device, the method further comprises:

transmitting, by the network device, SRS configuration information and second downlink control information (DCI) to the terminal device, wherein the second DCI is used for triggering a group of SRS resources indicated in the SRS configuration information and indicating that the terminal device transmits the first SRS on the SRS resource.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein subsequent to receiving, by the network device, the first SRS, the method further comprises:

transmitting, by the network device, first DCI to the terminal device, the first DCI comprising sub-band indication information, and the sub-band indication information indicating a target sub-band used for the terminal device to transmit a second SRS; and

receiving, by the network device, the second SRS transmitted by the terminal device in the target sub-band.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the first DCI further indicates that the terminal device transmits the second SRS to the network device on the SRS resource triggered by the second DCI.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the sub-band indication information comprises one sub-band position information, and the SRS resource comprises a start configuration position of the SRS region in a sub-band;

a position encoding of the target sub-band is a result of a modulo operation on a sum of a position encoding in the sub-band position information and the start configuration position with N; and

the position encoding of the target sub-band indicates the target sub-band among the N sub-bands.

17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the sub-band indication information comprises one sub-band position information, the SRS resource comprises a start configuration position and a cyclic-shifted candidate position of the SRS region in a sub-band, and an RB configuration quantity in a sub-band of the SRS bandwidth is M;

a position encoding of the target sub-band is a result of a modulo operation on a sum of a position encoding in the sub-band position information, the start configuration position, and a first modulo result with N, wherein the first modulo result is obtained through a modulo operation on the candidate position and a difference between N and M.

18. The method of claim 14 , wherein the sub-band indication information comprises at least two sub-band position information, and prior to transmitting, by the network device, the first DCI to the terminal device, the method further comprises:

transmitting, by the network device, position indication information to the terminal device, wherein the position indication information indicates target sub-band position information among the at least two sub-band position information;

a position encoding in the target sub-band position information is a position encoding of the target sub-band, wherein the position encoding of the target sub-band indicates the target sub-band among the N sub-bands.

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