WO2022001973A1 - Apparatus and method of wireless communication - Google Patents
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- the present disclosure relates to the field of communication systems, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method of wireless communication, which can provide a good communication performance and/or high reliability.
- New radio (NR) system introduces a multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) based non-coherent joint transmission.
- TRP multi-transmission/reception point
- Multiple TRPs are connected through backhaul link for coordination.
- the backhaul link can be ideal or non-ideal.
- the TRPs can exchange dynamic physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling information with short latency and thus different TRPs can coordinate a PDSCH transmission per PDSCH transmission.
- PDSCH physical downlink shared channel
- the information exchange between TRPs has large latency and thus the coordination between TRPs can only be semi-static or static.
- a user equipment (UE) positioning measurement on a downlink (DL) positioning reference signal is the design is only applicable to a frequency range 1 (FR1) system but not optimized for a FR2 systems.
- a multi-beam-based transmission is generally implemented so that a transmission with a high-beamform gain can be explored to enhance a coverage.
- a timing measurement including a DL reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement and a UE receive and transmission (Tx-Rx) time difference does not consider the fact that the DL PRS in the FR2 system would be transmitted with multiple different beam directions and the UE can measure the DL PRS transmission from multiple different beam directions, too.
- the positioning measurement is not efficient.
- the resource used to transmit multiple DL PRS resources carrying different beam directions are not fully utilized. The system resource efficiency is impaired, and the system throughput is reduced.
- an apparatus such as a user equipment (UE) and/or a base station
- a method of wireless communication which can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
- An object of the present disclosure is to propose an apparatus (such as a user equipment (UE) and/or a base station) and a method of wireless communication, which can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
- UE user equipment
- a method of wireless communication by a user equipment comprises being configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources and measuring the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- DL downlink
- PRS positioning reference signal
- a method of wireless communication by a base station comprises configuring, to a user equipment (UE) , a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources and controlling the UE to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- DL downlink
- PRS positioning reference signal
- a user equipment comprises a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver.
- the processor is configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and the processor is configured to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- DL downlink
- PRS positioning reference signal
- a base station comprises a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver.
- the processor is configured to configure, to a user equipment (UE) , a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and the processor is configured to control the UE to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- DL downlink
- PRS positioning reference signal
- a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the above method.
- a chip includes a processor, configured to call and run a computer program stored in a memory, to cause a device in which the chip is installed to execute the above method.
- a computer readable storage medium in which a computer program is stored, causes a computer to execute the above method.
- a computer program product includes a computer program, and the computer program causes a computer to execute the above method.
- a computer program causes a computer to execute the above method.
- FIG. 1A is a schematic diagram illustrating that example of multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) transmission according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 1B is a schematic diagram illustrating that example of multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) transmission according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one or more user equipments (UEs) and a base station (e.g., gNB or eNB) of communication in a communication network system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- UEs user equipments
- base station e.g., gNB or eNB
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of wireless communication by a base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a system for wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- TRPs transmission/reception points
- PDCCHs physical downlink control channels
- PDSCH physical downlink sharing channel
- DCI downlink control information
- PDSCHs from different TRPs can be scheduled in the same slot or different slots.
- Two different PDSCH transmissions from different TRPs can be fully overlapped or partially overlapped in PDSCH resource allocation.
- UE user equipment
- the UE can feedback a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information to a network.
- HARQ-ACK hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge
- the UE can feedback the HARQ-ACK information for each PDSCH transmission to the TRP transmitting the PDSCH.
- the UE can also feedback the HARQ-ACK information for a PDSCH transmission sent from any TRP to one particular TRP.
- FIG. 1A An example of multi-TRP based non-coherent joint transmission is illustrated in FIG. 1A.
- a UE receives a PDSCH based on non-coherent joint transmission from two TRPs: TRP1 and TRP2.
- the TRP1 sends one DCI to schedule a transmission of PDSCH 1 to the UE and the TRP2 sends one DCI to schedule a transmission of PDSCH 2 to the UE.
- the UE receives and decodes DCI from both TRPs. Based on the DCI from the TRP1, the UE receives and decodes the PDSCH 1 and based on the DCI from the TRP2, the UE receives and decodes the PDSCH 2.
- the UE reports HARQ-ACK for PDSCH 1 and PDSCH2 to the TRP1 and the TRP 2, respectively.
- the TRP1 and the TRP 2 use different control resource sets (CORESETs) and search spaces to transmit DCI scheduling PDSCH transmission to the UE. Therefore, the network can configure multiple CORESETs and search spaces.
- Each TRP can be associated with one or more CORESETs and also the related search spaces. With such configuration, the TRP would use the associated CORESET to transmit DCI to schedule a PDSCH transmission to the UE.
- the UE can be requested to decode DCI in CORESETs associated with TRP to obtain PDSCH scheduling information.
- FIG. 1B Another example of multi-TRP transmission is illustrated in FIG. 1B.
- a UE receives PDSCH based on non-coherent joint transmission from two TRPs: TRP1 and TRP2.
- the TRP1 sends one DCI to schedule a transmission of PDSCH 1 to the UE and the TRP2 sends one DCI to schedule the transmission of PDSCH 2 to the UE.
- the UE receives and decodes DCI from both TRPs. Based on the DCI from the TRP1, the UE receives and decodes the PDSCH 1 and based on the DCI from the TRP2, the UE receives and decodes the PDSCH 2.
- FIG. 1B A UE receives PDSCH based on non-coherent joint transmission from two TRPs: TRP1 and TRP2.
- the TRP1 sends one DCI to schedule a transmission of PDSCH 1 to the UE
- the TRP2 sends one DCI to schedule the transmission of PDSCH 2 to
- the UE reports HARQ-ACK for both PDSCH 1 and PDSCH2 to the TRP, which is different from the HARQ-ACK reporting in the example illustrated in FIG. 1A.
- the example illustrated in FIG. 1B needs ideal backhaul between the TRP 1 and the TRP 2, while the example illustrated in FIG. 1A can be deployed in the scenarios that the backhaul between the TRP 1 and the TRP 2 is ideal or non-ideal.
- a downlink positioning reference signal is introduced to support downlink time difference-based positioning technology.
- the PRS signal is transmitted by TRP and received by the UE.
- the UE can measure arrival timing, signal RSRP, and signal arrival angles which would be used by a system to estimate a location of UE.
- the DL PRS is periodically transmitted by a base station such as a gNB.
- a UE can be configured with one or more DL PRS resource sets and each DL PRS resource set comprises one or multiple DL PRS resources. For each DL PRS resource set, the UE is provided with the following configuration parameters: 1. A DL PRS resource set ID. 2. DL PRS periodicity that defines the DL PRS resource periodicity.
- All the DL PRS resource within the same DL PRS resource set can be configured with the same periodicity.
- a DL PRS resource set slot offset that defines the slot offset with respect to SFN slot 0, which is used by the UE to determine the slot location of DL PRS resources within the DL PRS resource set.
- a DL PRS resource repetition factor that defines how many times each DL PRS resource is repeated for a single instance of the DL PRS resource. All the DL PRS resources within the same DL PRS resource set can have the same resource repetition factor.
- 5. DL PRS resource time gap that is used to define the slot offset between two repeated instances of the same DL PRS resource.
- 6. DL PRS resource muting pattern the defines a bitmap of the time location where the DL PRS resource is expected to not be transmitted for a DL PRS resource set.
- the UE For a DL PRS resource, the UE is provided with the following configuration parameters: 1. A DL PRS resource ID. 2. A DL PRS RE offset that defines the starting RE offset of the first symbol within a DL PRS resource in frequency. 3. A DL PRS resource slot offset that defines the starting slot of the DL PRS resource with respect to the slot offset of the DL PRS resource set. 4. A DL PRS resource symbol offset that defines the starting symbol of the DL PRS resource within one slot. 5. A number of DL PRS symbols that defines the number of symbols of the DL PRS resource within a slot. 6. QCL configuration information for a PRS resource that defines quasi-colocation information of the DL PRS resource with other reference signals.
- the muting transmission of DL PRS resource there are two options.
- the first option is the muting of PRS transmission is per X consecutive instances of one DL PRS resource set. Each bit in the muting bitmap corresponds to X consecutive instances of one DL PRS resource set. And if the value of one bit is zero, then all the DL PRS resources within the PRS resource set in the instance corresponding to the bit are muted.
- the second option is the muting of PRS transmission is per repetition of each DL PRS resource within each instance of the DL PRS resource set.
- the UE can be configured with both Options and if both options are configured, the UE can assume the logical AND operation is applied to the two bit maps to determine the muting of DL PRS transmission.
- Comb-2 For a configuration of DL PRS resource, four Comb sizes are supported: Comb-2, Comb-4, Comb-6, and Comb-12.
- the number of symbols configured in one DL PRS resource can be 2, 4, 6, or 12 symbols.
- the following table lists the combination of Comb size and the number of symbols that can be configured for a DL PRS resource.
- the relative RE offset for each combination of Comb size and number of symbols for one DL PRS resource is also illustrated in table 1.
- the UE can make the following measurement for positioning: DL RSTD (reference signal time difference) , DL PRS-RSRP, and UE Rx-Tx time difference.
- the DL RSTD is defined as the DL relative timing difference between two positioning nodes, which can be measured from DL PRS.
- DL PRS-RSRP is the reference signal received power measured from a DL PRS resource.
- the UE Rx-Tx time difference is defined as the relative timing difference between UE received timing of downlink transmission and the UE transmit timing of uplink.
- the UE can be provided with DL PRS resource (s) that can be used as reference for DL RSTD, DL PRS-RSRP and/or UE Rx-Tx time difference.
- FIG. 2 illustrates that, in some embodiments, one or more user equipments (UEs) 10 and a base station (e.g., gNB or eNB) 20 for transmission adjustment in a communication network system 30 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure are provided.
- the communication network system 30 includes the one or more UEs 10 and the base station 20.
- the one or more UEs 10 may include a memory 12, a transceiver 13, and a processor 11 coupled to the memory 12 and the transceiver 13.
- the base station 20 may include a memory 22, a transceiver 23, and a processor 21 coupled to the memory 22 and the transceiver 23.
- the processor 11 or 21 may be configured to implement proposed functions, procedures and/or methods described in this description.
- Layers of radio interface protocol may be implemented in the processor 11 or 21.
- the memory 12 or 22 is operatively coupled with the processor 11 or 21 and stores a variety of information to operate the processor 11 or 21.
- the transceiver 13 or 23 is operatively coupled with the processor 11 or 21, and the transceiver 13 or 23 transmits and/or receives a radio signal.
- the processor 11 or 21 may include application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) , other chipset, logic circuit and/or data processing device.
- the memory 12 or 22 may include read-only memory (ROM) , random access memory (RAM) , flash memory, memory card, storage medium and/or other storage device.
- the transceiver 13 or 23 may include baseband circuitry to process radio frequency signals.
- modules e.g., procedures, functions, and so on
- the modules can be stored in the memory 12 or 22 and executed by the processor 11 or 21.
- the memory 12 or 22 can be implemented within the processor 11 or 21 or external to the processor 11 or 21 in which case those can be communicatively coupled to the processor 11 or 21 via various means as is known in the art.
- the processor 11 is configured, by the base station 20, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and the processor 11 is configured to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- DL downlink
- PRS transmission/reception points
- the processor 21 is configured to configure, to the UE 10, a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and the processor 21 is configured to control the UE 10 to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- DL downlink
- PRS transmission/reception points
- FIG. 3 illustrates a method 200 of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) 10 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- the method 200 includes: a block 202, being configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and a block 204, measuring the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- DL downlink
- PRS transmission/reception points
- FIG. 4 illustrates a method 300 of wireless communication by a base station 20 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
- the method 300 includes: a block 302, configuring, to a user equipment (UE) , a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and a block 304, controlling the UE to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- DL downlink
- PRS transmission/reception points
- the UE for each DL PRS resource set or each DL PRS resource, the UE is provided, by the base station, with at least one of configuration parameters.
- the at least one of configuration parameters comprises: a DL PRS resource set identifier (ID) that defines an identity of the PRS resource set configuration; a DL PRS resource transmission type that is used to indicate a time domain behavior of DL PRS resource transmission; parameters to indicate a DL PRS resource periodicity and a slot offset; a parameter to indicate a number of repetitions of one DL PRS resource; a parameter to indicate a time gap between two adjacent repetitions of a DL PRS resource; a parameter to indicate a number of slots for triggering offset; a parameter to indicate a number of periodicities that the DL PRS resource is transmitted when a base station activates a transmission of the DL PRS resource; a time domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource within one slot; a frequency domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource; or a quasi
- the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted by the base station upon a request from the UE. In some embodiments, if a first DL PRS resource is transmitted only when the base station triggers the first DL PRS resource, the first DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the first DL PRS resource. In some embodiments, if a second DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically, the second DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the second DL PRS resource within each periodicity. In some embodiments, the parameter to indicate the time gap between two adjacent repetitions of the DL PRS resource can be in terms of one or more slots or one or more symbols.
- the time domain resource allocation comprises a number of symbols allocated for the DL PRS resource, and an index of a starting symbol in one slot.
- the frequency domain resource allocation comprises a starting physical resource block (PRB) , a DL PRS resource bandwidth in terms of a number of PRBs allocated to the DL PRS resource, and/or a resource element (RE) offset of a first symbol within one DL PRS resource.
- PRB physical resource block
- RE resource element
- a DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-D with the DL PRS or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a serving cell or a non-serving cell, and/or the DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-C with the SS/PBCH block from the serving cell or the non-serving cell.
- SS/PBCH synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel
- the DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-C with the SS/PBCH block from the serving cell or the non-serving cell.
- an SSB index indicated is same.
- the UE is configured to report a PRS reference signal received power (RSRP) for selected DL PRS resources.
- RSRP PRS reference signal received power
- one DL PRS resource is used as a reference, and the UE is configured to report a DL reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement for reported DL PRS resources with respect to the DL PRS resource used as the reference.
- the UE is requested to report one or more of the following information: an identifier (ID) of the TRP, an ID of the PRS resource set, and/or an ID of the PRS resource; an RSRP measurement of one DL PRS resource; an ID of a receive (Rx) beam used to measure the DL PRS resource; or an RSTD measured from one DL PRS resource which is calculated with respect to timing measured from another DL PRS resource.
- ID identifier
- Rx receive
- the UE is requested to report the following measurement results on DL PRS resources: a list of DL PRS resources that the UE selects to report to a system; a DL PRS RSRP measurement for each reported DL PRS resource; one indication to indicate one of the reported DL PRS resources used as a reference for an RSTD measurement; or a DL RSTD measurement of each reported DL PRS resource which is measured with respect to timing measured from a first DL PRS resource.
- the UE is requested to report a UE receive and transmission (Rx-Tx) time difference for per DL PRS resource/sounding reference signal (SRS) resource.
- Rx-Tx receive and transmission
- the UE Rx-Tx time difference is calculated from DL timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from transmission timing of one SRS resource.
- the UE is requested to report one or more of the following information: one or more UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement values; one DL PRS resource and one SRS resource for positioning that are used to determine the UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement; an RSRP measurement of one reported DL PRS resource; or an ID of a Rx beam that is used to measure one reported DL PRS resource.
- a reporting granularity for the DL RSTD measurement and the UE Rx-Tx time difference is equal to T c ⁇ 2 k , where k is provided by a system through a higher layer parameter, a value of T c is equal to 1/ (480KHz) /4096, and a value of k is equal to -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- a UE can be provided with configurations of one or more downlink PRS (positioning reference signal) resource sets.
- Each DL PRS resource set comprises M ⁇ 1 DL PRS resource (s) .
- the UE can be provided with the following configuration parameters: 1.
- a DL PRS resource set Id that defines the identity of the DL PRS resource set configuration.
- a DL PRS resource transmission type that is used to indicate the time domain behavior of DL PRS resource transmission.
- this parameter can indicate that the DL PRS resource is only transmitted upon a triggering or activation command sent by the system.
- this parameter can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically.
- this parameter can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted upon a request from the UE. 3.
- a parameter to indicate the time gap between two adjacent repetition of a DL PRS resource It can be in terms of slot (s) . It can be in terms of symbols. 6.
- Time domain resource allocation for a DL PRS resource within one slot it can include the number of symbols allocated for the DL PRS resource, and the index of starting symbol in one slot.
- Frequency domain resource allocation for a DL PRS resource it can include the starting PRB, DL PRS resource bandwidth in terms of numbers of PRB allocated to the DL PRS resource, the RE offset of the first symbol within one DL PRS resource.
- a DL PRS resource Id that defines the identity of one DL PRS resource within one DL PRS resource set. 11.
- the DL PRS may be configured to be ‘QCL-Type-D’ with a DL PRS or SS/PBCH Block from a serving cell or a non-serving cell.
- the DL PRS may be configured to be ‘QCL-Type-C’ with a SS/PBCH Block from a serving or non-serving cell. If the DL PRS is configured as both ‘QCL-Type-C’ and ‘QCL-Type-D’ with a SS/PBCH Block then the SSB index indicated should be the same.
- the UE can be provided with configurations of DL PRS resource sets for one or more positioning TRPs.
- the UE can be provided with one or more downlink PRS resource sets for each positioning TRP and in each DL PRS resource set, the UE can be provided with one or more DL PRS resources.
- the TRP can apply different spatial domain transmit filter on the transmission of different DL PRS resources.
- the UE can be configured to measure DL PRS resource transmission from N TRP positioning TRPs. From one TRP, the UE is configured to measure N PRS_set PRS resource set (s) and N PRS_resource in one PRS resource set.
- the UE can be requested to report the K ⁇ 1 DL PRS resources among all the measured DL PRS resources and for the reported DL PRS resources, the UE can be requested to report one or more of the following information: 1. An ID of TRP, Id of PRS resource set and Id of the PRS resource which are used to uniquely identified one DL PRS resource. 2. An RSRP measurement of one DL PRS resource. 3. An ID of Rx beam used to measure the DL PRS resource. 4. An RSTD measured from one DL PRS resource which is calculated with respect to the timing measured from another DL PRS resource.
- a UE can be requested to report the following measurement results on DL PRS resources: 1. A list of DL PRS resources that the UE selected to report to the system. Each DL PRS resource is identified by ⁇ an Id of TRP, a Id of DL PRS resource set, a Id of DL PRS resource ⁇ . 2. DL PRS RSRP measurement for each reported DL PRS resource. 3. One indication to indicate one of the reported DL PRS resources is used as reference for RSTD measurement in the same reporting instance. This DL PRS resource can be called a first DL PRS resource here. The DL RSTD measurement of each reported DL PRS resource which is measured with respect to the timing measured from the first DL PRS resource in the same reporting instance.
- the DL RSTD measurement is the DL reference signal time difference between two DL PRS resources. It can be calculated from the timing of DL subframe based on the timing estimation from those two DL PRS resources. In one example, a UE calculates the DL reference signal time difference between a first DL PRS resource and a second DL PRS resource and the first DL PRS resource is used as the reference for calculating DL RSTD.
- the definition of that DL RSTD is DL relative timing difference between the downlink timing based on the first DL PRS resource and the second DL PRS resource, calculated as T timingRx2 -T timingRx1 , where T timingRx2 is the time when the UE receives the start of one subframe that is determined based on the timing measured from the second DL PRS resource, and T timingRx1 is the time when the UE receives the start of one subframe that is determined based on the timing measured from the first DL PRS resource which is closest in time to the subframe determined based on measurement from the second DL PRS resource.
- a UE can be requested to report UE Rx-Tx time difference calculated based on measurement from one DL PRS resource and transmission of one SRS resource for positioning.
- the UE can be provided with configurations of one or more downlink PRS (positioning reference signal) resource sets.
- Each DL PRS resource set consists of M ⁇ 1 DL PRS resource (s) .
- the UE can be provided with configurations of DL PRS resource sets for one or more positioning TRPs.
- the UE can be provided with one or more downlink PRS resource sets for each positioning TRP and in each DL PRS resource set, the UE can be provided with one or more DL PRS resources.
- the TRP can apply different spatial domain transmit filter on the transmission of different DL PRS resources.
- the UE can also be configured with one or more SRS resource sets for positioning and in each SRS resource set, the UE can be configured with one or more SRS resources for positioning.
- Each SRS resource can be transmitted towards a serving cell or a non-serving cell.
- the system can indicate the transmission beam direction for one SRS resource through configuring a spatial relation info to the SRS resource.
- the spatial relation info configured to a SRS resource for positioning can be a SS/PBCH block or DL PRS resource from a serving cell or non-serving cell.
- One method is the UE can apply the same timing advance of the system on the transmission of one SRS resource for positioning.
- Another method is the UE can apply a dedicated timing advance on the transmission of one SRS resource for positioning, which can be different from the timing advance applied on the uplink transmission of PUSCH, PUCCH and normal SRS resource.
- the UE can be requested to report UE Rx-Tx time difference determined from the measurement from one DL PRS resource and transmission of one SRS resource for positioning.
- the UE in one positioning measurement reporting instance, can be requested to report one or more of the following information: 1. One or more UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement values. 2. For each UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement, the UE reports one DL PRS resource and one SRS resource for positioning that are used to determine this UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement.
- T Rx-Tx time difference measurement determined from a first DL PRS resource and a second SRS resource is defined as T Rx -T Tx , where T Rx is the UE received timing of downlink subframe that is determined based on measurement from the first DL PRS resource and T Tx is the UE transmit timing of uplink subframe that is determined based on the transmission of the second SRS resource, which is closet in time to the DL subframe determined from the measurement of the first DL PRS resource.
- the UE reports ⁇ an Id of TRP, an Id of DL PRS resource set, an Id of DL PRS ⁇ that is used to uniquely identify one DL PRS resource.
- the UE reports ⁇ an Id of CC, an Id of BWP, an Id of SRS resource ⁇ that is used to uniquely identify one SRS resource for positioning. 3.
- the UE can also report RSRP measurement of one reported DL PRS resource. 4.
- the UE can also report the Id of Rx beam that is used to measure one reported DL PRS resource.
- the UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement is the relative timing difference between downlink timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from one SRS resource for positioning.
- UE DL PRS Rx-SRS Tx time difference It can be calculated from the timing of DL subframe based on the timing estimated from one DL PRS resource and timing of UL subframe based on the timing estimated from the transmission of one SRS resource.
- a UE calculates the UE DL PRS Rx-SRS Tx time difference between a first DL PRS resource and a second SRS resource.
- T Rx, PRS -T Tx, SRS The definition of that UE DL PRS Rx-SRS Tx time difference is defined as T Rx, PRS -T Tx, SRS , where T Rx, PRS is the UE received timing of downlink subframe that is determined based on measurement from the first DL PRS resource, and T Tx, SRS is the UE transmit timing of uplink subframe that is determined based on the transmission of the second SRS resource, which is closet in time to the DL subframe determined from the measurement of the first DL PRS resource.
- the reporting granularity for DL RSTD measurement and UE Rx-Tx time difference is T c ⁇ 2 k , where k can be provided by the system through a higher layer parameter.
- the value of k can be: -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- a UE may be configured to report quality metrics corresponding to the DL RSTD and UE Rx-Tx time difference measurements which include the following values: 1. A timing measurement quality value which provides the best estimate of the uncertainty of the measurement. 2. A timing measurement quality resolution which specifies the resolution levels used in the timing measurement quality value. In one example, the timing measurement quality resolution can be 0.05, 0.03, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10 or 30 meters.
- some exemplary methods for positioning measurement and reporting are presented in this disclosure: 1.
- the UE can measure multiple DL PRS resource sets from multiple TRPs.
- the UE reports the PRS RSRP for a few selected DL PRS resources. Among those DL PRS resources, one DL PRS resource is used as reference and the UE reports DL RSTD measurement for other reported DL PRS resources with respect to the reference DL PRS resource.
- the UE can be requested to report per-DL PRS resource/SRS resource UE Rx-Tx time difference. That is calculated from the downlink timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from the transmission timing of one SRS resource. 3.
- the reporting granularity can be T c ⁇ 2 k , where k can be provided by the system through a higher layer parameter.
- the value of k can be: -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- 3GPP TS 38.211 V16.0.0 “NR; Physical channels and modulation”
- 3GPP TS 38.212 V16.0.0 “NR; Multiplexing and channel coding”
- 3GPP TS 38.213 V16.0.0 “NR; Physical layer procedures for control”
- 3GPP TS 38.214 V16.0.0 “NR; Physical layer procedures for data”
- 3GPP TS 38.215 V16.0.0 “NR; Physical layer measurements”
- 3GPP TS 38.331 V16.0.0 “NR; Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification” .
- RRC Radio Resource Control
- PRB Physical Resource Block
- RBG Resource Block Group LCS Location services DL-TDOA Downlink Time difference of arrival NW Network RSTD Reference signal time difference DL PRS Downlink Positioning reference signal QCL Quasi co-locate SS/PBCH Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel RSTD Reference signal time difference PRS-RSRP PRS-reference signal received power
- Some embodiments of the present disclosure are used by 5G-NR chipset vendors, V2X communication system development vendors, automakers including cars, trains, trucks, buses, bicycles, moto-bikes, helmets, and etc., drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) , smartphone makers, communication devices for public safety use, AR/VR device maker for example gaming, conference/seminar, education purposes.
- the deployment scenarios include, but not limited to, indoor hotspot, dense urban, urban micro, urban macro, rural, factor hall, and indoor D2D scenarios.
- Some embodiments of the present disclosure are a combination of “techniques/processes” that can be adopted in 3GPP specification to create an end product. Some embodiments of the present disclosure could be adopted in 5G NR licensed and non-licensed or shared spectrum communications. Some embodiments of the present disclosure propose technical mechanisms. The present example embodiment is applicable to NR in unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) . The present disclosure can be applied to other mobile networks, in particular to mobile network of any further generation cellular network technology (6G, etc. ) .
- FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an example system 700 for wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Embodiments described herein may be implemented into the system using any suitably configured hardware and/or software.
- FIG. 5 illustrates the system 700 including a radio frequency (RF) circuitry 710, a baseband circuitry 720, an application circuitry 730, a memory/storage 740, a display 750, a camera 760, a sensor 770, and an input/output (I/O) interface 780, coupled with each other at least as illustrated.
- the application circuitry 730 may include a circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors.
- the processors may include any combination of general-purpose processors and dedicated processors, such as graphics processors, application processors.
- the processors may be coupled with the memory/storage and configured to execute instructions stored in the memory/storage to enable various applications and/or operating systems running on the system.
- the baseband circuitry 720 may include circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors.
- the processors may include a baseband processor.
- the baseband circuitry may handle various radio control functions that enables communication with one or more radio networks via the RF circuitry.
- the radio control functions may include, but are not limited to, signal modulation, encoding, decoding, radio frequency shifting, etc.
- the baseband circuitry may provide for communication compatible with one or more radio technologies.
- the baseband circuitry may support communication with an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) and/or other wireless metropolitan area networks (WMAN) , a wireless local area network (WLAN) , a wireless personal area network (WPAN) .
- EUTRAN evolved universal terrestrial radio access network
- WMAN wireless metropolitan area networks
- WLAN wireless local area network
- WPAN wireless personal area network
- Embodiments in which the baseband circuitry is configured to support radio communications of more than one wireless protocol may be referred to as
- the baseband circuitry 720 may include circuitry to operate with signals that are not strictly considered as being in a baseband frequency.
- baseband circuitry may include circuitry to operate with signals having an intermediate frequency, which is between a baseband frequency and a radio frequency.
- the RF circuitry 710 may enable communication with wireless networks using modulated electromagnetic radiation through a non-solid medium.
- the RF circuitry may include switches, filters, amplifiers, etc. to facilitate the communication with the wireless network.
- the RF circuitry 710 may include circuitry to operate with signals that are not strictly considered as being in a radio frequency.
- RF circuitry may include circuitry to operate with signals having an intermediate frequency, which is between a baseband frequency and a radio frequency.
- the transmitter circuitry, control circuitry, or receiver circuitry discussed above with respect to the user equipment, eNB, or gNB may be embodied in whole or in part in one or more of the RF circuitry, the baseband circuitry, and/or the application circuitry.
- “circuitry” may refer to, be part of, or include an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) , an electronic circuit, a processor (shared, dedicated, or group) , and/or a memory (shared, dedicated, or group) that execute one or more software or firmware programs, a combinational logic circuit, and/or other suitable hardware components that provide the described functionality.
- ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
- the electronic device circuitry may be implemented in, or functions associated with the circuitry may be implemented by, one or more software or firmware modules.
- some or all of the constituent components of the baseband circuitry, the application circuitry, and/or the memory/storage may be implemented together on a system on a chip (SOC) .
- SOC system on a chip
- the memory/storage 740 may be used to load and store data and/or instructions, for example, for system.
- the memory/storage for one embodiment may include any combination of suitable volatile memory, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM) ) , and/or non-volatile memory, such as flash memory.
- DRAM dynamic random access memory
- the I/O interface 780 may include one or more user interfaces designed to enable user interaction with the system and/or peripheral component interfaces designed to enable peripheral component interaction with the system.
- User interfaces may include, but are not limited to a physical keyboard or keypad, a touchpad, a speaker, a microphone, etc.
- Peripheral component interfaces may include, but are not limited to, a non-volatile memory port, a universal serial bus (USB) port, an audio jack, and a power supply interface.
- the sensor 770 may include one or more sensing devices to determine environmental conditions and/or location information related to the system.
- the sensors may include, but are not limited to, a gyro sensor, an accelerometer, a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a positioning unit.
- the positioning unit may also be part of, or interact with, the baseband circuitry and/or RF circuitry to communicate with components of a positioning network, e.g., a global positioning system (GPS) satellite.
- GPS global positioning system
- the display 750 may include a display, such as a liquid crystal display and a touch screen display.
- the system 700 may be a mobile computing device such as, but not limited to, a laptop computing device, a tablet computing device, a netbook, an ultrabook, a smartphone, an AR/VR glasses, etc.
- system may have more or less components, and/or different architectures.
- methods described herein may be implemented as a computer program.
- the computer program may be stored on a storage medium, such as a non-transitory storage medium.
- the units as separating components for explanation are or are not physically separated.
- the units for display are or are not physical units, that is, located in one place or distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units are used according to the purposes of the embodiments.
- each of the functional units in each of the embodiments can be integrated in one processing unit, physically independent, or integrated in one processing unit with two or more than two units.
- the software function unit is realized and used and sold as a product, it can be stored in a readable storage medium in a computer.
- the technical plan proposed by the present disclosure can be essentially or partially realized as the form of a software product.
- one part of the technical plan beneficial to the conventional technology can be realized as the form of a software product.
- the software product in the computer is stored in a storage medium, including a plurality of commands for a computational device (such as a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to run all or some of the steps disclosed by the embodiments of the present disclosure.
- the storage medium includes a USB disk, a mobile hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM) , a random access memory (RAM) , a floppy disk, or other kinds of media capable of storing program codes.
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Abstract
An apparatus and a method of wireless communication are provided. The method by a user equipment (UE) includes being configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs), wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources and measuring the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs). This can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, improve uplink reliability, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
Description
BACKGROUND OF DISCLOSURE
1. Field of the Disclosure
The present disclosure relates to the field of communication systems, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method of wireless communication, which can provide a good communication performance and/or high reliability.
New radio (NR) system introduces a multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) based non-coherent joint transmission. Multiple TRPs are connected through backhaul link for coordination. The backhaul link can be ideal or non-ideal. In the case of ideal backhaul, the TRPs can exchange dynamic physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling information with short latency and thus different TRPs can coordinate a PDSCH transmission per PDSCH transmission. While, in non-ideal backhaul case, the information exchange between TRPs has large latency and thus the coordination between TRPs can only be semi-static or static.
In current designs, an issue of a user equipment (UE) positioning measurement on a downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) is the design is only applicable to a frequency range 1 (FR1) system but not optimized for a FR2 systems. In the FR2 systems, a multi-beam-based transmission is generally implemented so that a transmission with a high-beamform gain can be explored to enhance a coverage. However, in current designs of a UE positioning measurement, a timing measurement including a DL reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement and a UE receive and transmission (Tx-Rx) time difference does not consider the fact that the DL PRS in the FR2 system would be transmitted with multiple different beam directions and the UE can measure the DL PRS transmission from multiple different beam directions, too. Thus, the positioning measurement is not efficient. The resource used to transmit multiple DL PRS resources carrying different beam directions are not fully utilized. The system resource efficiency is impaired, and the system throughput is reduced.
Therefore, there is a need for an apparatus (such as a user equipment (UE) and/or a base station) and a method of wireless communication, which can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
SUMMARY
An object of the present disclosure is to propose an apparatus (such as a user equipment (UE) and/or a base station) and a method of wireless communication, which can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
In a first aspect of the present disclosure, a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) comprises being configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources and measuring the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
In a second aspect of the present disclosure, a method of wireless communication by a base station comprises configuring, to a user equipment (UE) , a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources and controlling the UE to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
In a third aspect of the present disclosure, a user equipment comprises a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver. The processor is configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and the processor is configured to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
In a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, a base station comprises a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver. The processor is configured to configure, to a user equipment (UE) , a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and the processor is configured to control the UE to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
In a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the above method.
In a sixth aspect of the present disclosure, a chip includes a processor, configured to call and run a computer program stored in a memory, to cause a device in which the chip is installed to execute the above method.
In a seventh aspect of the present disclosure, a computer readable storage medium, in which a computer program is stored, causes a computer to execute the above method.
In an eighth aspect of the present disclosure, a computer program product includes a computer program, and the computer program causes a computer to execute the above method.
In a ninth aspect of the present disclosure, a computer program causes a computer to execute the above method.
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FIG. 1A is a schematic diagram illustrating that example of multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) transmission according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 1B is a schematic diagram illustrating that example of multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) transmission according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one or more user equipments (UEs) and a base station (e.g., gNB or eNB) of communication in a communication network system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of wireless communication by a base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a system for wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with the technical matters, structural features, achieved objects, and effects with reference to the accompanying drawings as follows. Specifically, the terminologies in the embodiments of the present disclosure are merely for describing the purpose of the certain embodiment, but not to limit the disclosure.
In non-coherent joint transmission, different transmission/reception points (TRPs) use different physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) to schedule physical downlink sharing channel (PDSCH) transmission independently. Each TRP can send one downlink control information (DCI) to schedule one PDSCH transmission. PDSCHs from different TRPs can be scheduled in the same slot or different slots. Two different PDSCH transmissions from different TRPs can be fully overlapped or partially overlapped in PDSCH resource allocation. To support multi-TRP based non-coherent joint transmission, a user equipment (UE) is requested to receive PDCCH from multiple TRPs and then receive PDSCH sent from multiple TRPs. For each PDSCH transmission, the UE can feedback a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) information to a network. In multi-TRP transmission, the UE can feedback the HARQ-ACK information for each PDSCH transmission to the TRP transmitting the PDSCH. The UE can also feedback the HARQ-ACK information for a PDSCH transmission sent from any TRP to one particular TRP.
An example of multi-TRP based non-coherent joint transmission is illustrated in FIG. 1A. A UE receives a PDSCH based on non-coherent joint transmission from two TRPs: TRP1 and TRP2. As illustrated in FIG. 1A, the TRP1 sends one DCI to schedule a transmission of PDSCH 1 to the UE and the TRP2 sends one DCI to schedule a transmission of PDSCH 2 to the UE. At the UE side, the UE receives and decodes DCI from both TRPs. Based on the DCI from the TRP1, the UE receives and decodes the PDSCH 1 and based on the DCI from the TRP2, the UE receives and decodes the PDSCH 2. In the example illustrated in FIG. 1A, the UE reports HARQ-ACK for PDSCH 1 and PDSCH2 to the TRP1 and the TRP 2, respectively. The TRP1 and the TRP 2 use different control resource sets (CORESETs) and search spaces to transmit DCI scheduling PDSCH transmission to the UE. Therefore, the network can configure multiple CORESETs and search spaces. Each TRP can be associated with one or more CORESETs and also the related search spaces. With such configuration, the TRP would use the associated CORESET to transmit DCI to schedule a PDSCH transmission to the UE. The UE can be requested to decode DCI in CORESETs associated with TRP to obtain PDSCH scheduling information.
Another example of multi-TRP transmission is illustrated in FIG. 1B. A UE receives PDSCH based on non-coherent joint transmission from two TRPs: TRP1 and TRP2. As illustrated in FIG. 1B, the TRP1 sends one DCI to schedule a transmission of PDSCH 1 to the UE and the TRP2 sends one DCI to schedule the transmission of PDSCH 2 to the UE. At the UE side, the UE receives and decodes DCI from both TRPs. Based on the DCI from the TRP1, the UE receives and decodes the PDSCH 1 and based on the DCI from the TRP2, the UE receives and decodes the PDSCH 2. In the example illustrated in FIG. 1B, the UE reports HARQ-ACK for both PDSCH 1 and PDSCH2 to the TRP, which is different from the HARQ-ACK reporting in the example illustrated in FIG. 1A. The example illustrated in FIG. 1B needs ideal backhaul between the TRP 1 and the TRP 2, while the example illustrated in FIG. 1A can be deployed in the scenarios that the backhaul between the TRP 1 and the TRP 2 is ideal or non-ideal.
In 3GPP NR, a downlink positioning reference signal (PRS) is introduced to support downlink time difference-based positioning technology. The PRS signal is transmitted by TRP and received by the UE. The UE can measure arrival timing, signal RSRP, and signal arrival angles which would be used by a system to estimate a location of UE. The DL PRS is periodically transmitted by a base station such as a gNB. A UE can be configured with one or more DL PRS resource sets and each DL PRS resource set comprises one or multiple DL PRS resources. For each DL PRS resource set, the UE is provided with the following configuration parameters: 1. A DL PRS resource set ID. 2. DL PRS periodicity that defines the DL PRS resource periodicity. All the DL PRS resource within the same DL PRS resource set can be configured with the same periodicity. 3. A DL PRS resource set slot offset that defines the slot offset with respect to SFN slot 0, which is used by the UE to determine the slot location of DL PRS resources within the DL PRS resource set. 4. A DL PRS resource repetition factor that defines how many times each DL PRS resource is repeated for a single instance of the DL PRS resource. All the DL PRS resources within the same DL PRS resource set can have the same resource repetition factor. 5. DL PRS resource time gap that is used to define the slot offset between two repeated instances of the same DL PRS resource. 6. DL PRS resource muting pattern the defines a bitmap of the time location where the DL PRS resource is expected to not be transmitted for a DL PRS resource set.
For a DL PRS resource, the UE is provided with the following configuration parameters: 1. A DL PRS resource ID. 2. A DL PRS RE offset that defines the starting RE offset of the first symbol within a DL PRS resource in frequency. 3. A DL PRS resource slot offset that defines the starting slot of the DL PRS resource with respect to the slot offset of the DL PRS resource set. 4. A DL PRS resource symbol offset that defines the starting symbol of the DL PRS resource within one slot. 5. A number of DL PRS symbols that defines the number of symbols of the DL PRS resource within a slot. 6. QCL configuration information for a PRS resource that defines quasi-colocation information of the DL PRS resource with other reference signals.
For the muting transmission of DL PRS resource, there are two options. The first option is the muting of PRS transmission is per X consecutive instances of one DL PRS resource set. Each bit in the muting bitmap corresponds to X consecutive instances of one DL PRS resource set. And if the value of one bit is zero, then all the DL PRS resources within the PRS resource set in the instance corresponding to the bit are muted. The second option is the muting of PRS transmission is per repetition of each DL PRS resource within each instance of the DL PRS resource set. The UE can be configured with both Options and if both options are configured, the UE can assume the logical AND operation is applied to the two bit maps to determine the muting of DL PRS transmission.
For a configuration of DL PRS resource, four Comb sizes are supported: Comb-2, Comb-4, Comb-6, and Comb-12. The number of symbols configured in one DL PRS resource can be 2, 4, 6, or 12 symbols. The following table lists the combination of Comb size and the number of symbols that can be configured for a DL PRS resource. The relative RE offset for each combination of Comb size and number of symbols for one DL PRS resource is also illustrated in table 1.
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Based on measuring DL PRS resources, the UE can make the following measurement for positioning: DL RSTD (reference signal time difference) , DL PRS-RSRP, and UE Rx-Tx time difference. The DL RSTD is defined as the DL relative timing difference between two positioning nodes, which can be measured from DL PRS. DL PRS-RSRP is the reference signal received power measured from a DL PRS resource. The UE Rx-Tx time difference is defined as the relative timing difference between UE received timing of downlink transmission and the UE transmit timing of uplink. To assist the measurement, the UE can be provided with DL PRS resource (s) that can be used as reference for DL RSTD, DL PRS-RSRP and/or UE Rx-Tx time difference.
FIG. 2 illustrates that, in some embodiments, one or more user equipments (UEs) 10 and a base station (e.g., gNB or eNB) 20 for transmission adjustment in a communication network system 30 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure are provided. The communication network system 30 includes the one or more UEs 10 and the base station 20. The one or more UEs 10 may include a memory 12, a transceiver 13, and a processor 11 coupled to the memory 12 and the transceiver 13. The base station 20 may include a memory 22, a transceiver 23, and a processor 21 coupled to the memory 22 and the transceiver 23. The processor 11 or 21 may be configured to implement proposed functions, procedures and/or methods described in this description. Layers of radio interface protocol may be implemented in the processor 11 or 21. The memory 12 or 22 is operatively coupled with the processor 11 or 21 and stores a variety of information to operate the processor 11 or 21. The transceiver 13 or 23 is operatively coupled with the processor 11 or 21, and the transceiver 13 or 23 transmits and/or receives a radio signal.
The processor 11 or 21 may include application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) , other chipset, logic circuit and/or data processing device. The memory 12 or 22 may include read-only memory (ROM) , random access memory (RAM) , flash memory, memory card, storage medium and/or other storage device. The transceiver 13 or 23 may include baseband circuitry to process radio frequency signals. When the embodiments are implemented in software, the techniques described herein can be implemented with modules (e.g., procedures, functions, and so on) that perform the functions described herein. The modules can be stored in the memory 12 or 22 and executed by the processor 11 or 21. The memory 12 or 22 can be implemented within the processor 11 or 21 or external to the processor 11 or 21 in which case those can be communicatively coupled to the processor 11 or 21 via various means as is known in the art.
In some embodiments, the processor 11 is configured, by the base station 20, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and the processor 11 is configured to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) . This can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
In some embodiments, the processor 21 is configured to configure, to the UE 10, a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and the processor 21 is configured to control the UE 10 to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) . This can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
FIG. 3 illustrates a method 200 of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) 10 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In some embodiments, the method 200 includes: a block 202, being configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and a block 204, measuring the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) . This can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
FIG. 4 illustrates a method 300 of wireless communication by a base station 20 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In some embodiments, the method 300 includes: a block 302, configuring, to a user equipment (UE) , a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources, and a block 304, controlling the UE to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) . This can solve issues in the prior art, reach a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
In some embodiments, for each DL PRS resource set or each DL PRS resource, the UE is provided, by the base station, with at least one of configuration parameters. In some embodiments, the at least one of configuration parameters comprises: a DL PRS resource set identifier (ID) that defines an identity of the PRS resource set configuration; a DL PRS resource transmission type that is used to indicate a time domain behavior of DL PRS resource transmission; parameters to indicate a DL PRS resource periodicity and a slot offset; a parameter to indicate a number of repetitions of one DL PRS resource; a parameter to indicate a time gap between two adjacent repetitions of a DL PRS resource; a parameter to indicate a number of slots for triggering offset; a parameter to indicate a number of periodicities that the DL PRS resource is transmitted when a base station activates a transmission of the DL PRS resource; a time domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource within one slot; a frequency domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource; or a quasi-colocation information configured to the DL PRS resource. In some embodiments, the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is only transmitted upon a triggering or activation command sent by a system, or the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically.
In some embodiments, the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted by the base station upon a request from the UE. In some embodiments, if a first DL PRS resource is transmitted only when the base station triggers the first DL PRS resource, the first DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the first DL PRS resource. In some embodiments, if a second DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically, the second DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the second DL PRS resource within each periodicity. In some embodiments, the parameter to indicate the time gap between two adjacent repetitions of the DL PRS resource can be in terms of one or more slots or one or more symbols. In some embodiments, the time domain resource allocation comprises a number of symbols allocated for the DL PRS resource, and an index of a starting symbol in one slot. In some embodiments, the frequency domain resource allocation comprises a starting physical resource block (PRB) , a DL PRS resource bandwidth in terms of a number of PRBs allocated to the DL PRS resource, and/or a resource element (RE) offset of a first symbol within one DL PRS resource.
In some embodiments, a DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-D with the DL PRS or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a serving cell or a non-serving cell, and/or the DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-C with the SS/PBCH block from the serving cell or the non-serving cell. In some embodiments, if the DL PRS is configured as both QCL-Type-C and QCL-Type-D with the SS/PBCH block, an SSB index indicated is same. In some embodiments, the UE is configured to report a PRS reference signal received power (RSRP) for selected DL PRS resources. In some embodiments, in the selected DL PRS resources, one DL PRS resource is used as a reference, and the UE is configured to report a DL reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement for reported DL PRS resources with respect to the DL PRS resource used as the reference. In some embodiments, the UE is requested to report one or more of the following information: an identifier (ID) of the TRP, an ID of the PRS resource set, and/or an ID of the PRS resource; an RSRP measurement of one DL PRS resource; an ID of a receive (Rx) beam used to measure the DL PRS resource; or an RSTD measured from one DL PRS resource which is calculated with respect to timing measured from another DL PRS resource.
In some embodiments, the UE is requested to report the following measurement results on DL PRS resources: a list of DL PRS resources that the UE selects to report to a system; a DL PRS RSRP measurement for each reported DL PRS resource; one indication to indicate one of the reported DL PRS resources used as a reference for an RSTD measurement; or a DL RSTD measurement of each reported DL PRS resource which is measured with respect to timing measured from a first DL PRS resource. In some embodiments, the UE is requested to report a UE receive and transmission (Rx-Tx) time difference for per DL PRS resource/sounding reference signal (SRS) resource. In some embodiments, the UE Rx-Tx time difference is calculated from DL timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from transmission timing of one SRS resource. In some embodiments, for the UE Rx-Tx time difference, the UE is requested to report one or more of the following information: one or more UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement values; one DL PRS resource and one SRS resource for positioning that are used to determine the UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement; an RSRP measurement of one reported DL PRS resource; or an ID of a Rx beam that is used to measure one reported DL PRS resource. In some embodiments, a reporting granularity for the DL RSTD measurement and the UE Rx-Tx time difference is equal to T
c×2
k, where k is provided by a system through a higher layer parameter, a value of T
c is equal to 1/ (480KHz) /4096, and a value of k is equal to -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
In some embodiments, a UE can be provided with configurations of one or more downlink PRS (positioning reference signal) resource sets. Each DL PRS resource set comprises M≥1 DL PRS resource (s) . For a DL PRS resource set or a DL PRS resource, the UE can be provided with the following configuration parameters: 1. A DL PRS resource set Id that defines the identity of the DL PRS resource set configuration. 2. A DL PRS resource transmission type that is used to indicate the time domain behavior of DL PRS resource transmission. In one example, this parameter can indicate that the DL PRS resource is only transmitted upon a triggering or activation command sent by the system. In one example, this parameter can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically. In one example, this parameter can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted upon a request from the UE. 3. Parameters to indicate the DL PRS resource periodicity and slot offset. 4. A parameter to indicate the number of repetitions of one DL PRS resource. In one example, if a first DL PRS resource is transmitted only when the gNB trigger it, then the first DL PRS resource will be repeated for this number. In one example, if a second DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically, the second DL PRS resource will be repeated for this number within each periodicity. 5. A parameter to indicate the time gap between two adjacent repetition of a DL PRS resource. It can be in terms of slot (s) . It can be in terms of symbols. 6. A parameter to indicate the number of slots for triggering offset. 7. A parameter to indicate the number of periodicities that the DL PRS resource can be transmitted when the gNB activates the transmission of the DL PRS resource. 8. Time domain resource allocation for a DL PRS resource within one slot: it can include the number of symbols allocated for the DL PRS resource, and the index of starting symbol in one slot. 9. Frequency domain resource allocation for a DL PRS resource: it can include the starting PRB, DL PRS resource bandwidth in terms of numbers of PRB allocated to the DL PRS resource, the RE offset of the first symbol within one DL PRS resource. 10. A DL PRS resource Id that defines the identity of one DL PRS resource within one DL PRS resource set. 11. Quasi-colocation information configured to the DL PRS resource. The DL PRS may be configured to be ‘QCL-Type-D’ with a DL PRS or SS/PBCH Block from a serving cell or a non-serving cell. The DL PRS may be configured to be ‘QCL-Type-C’ with a SS/PBCH Block from a serving or non-serving cell. If the DL PRS is configured as both ‘QCL-Type-C’ and ‘QCL-Type-D’ with a SS/PBCH Block then the SSB index indicated should be the same.
In some embodiments, the UE can be provided with configurations of DL PRS resource sets for one or more positioning TRPs. The UE can be provided with one or more downlink PRS resource sets for each positioning TRP and in each DL PRS resource set, the UE can be provided with one or more DL PRS resources. The TRP can apply different spatial domain transmit filter on the transmission of different DL PRS resources. The UE can be configured to measure DL PRS resource transmission from N
TRP positioning TRPs. From one TRP, the UE is configured to measure N
PRS_set PRS resource set (s) and N
PRS_resource in one PRS resource set. The UE can be requested to report the K≥1 DL PRS resources among all the measured DL PRS resources and for the reported DL PRS resources, the UE can be requested to report one or more of the following information: 1. An ID of TRP, Id of PRS resource set and Id of the PRS resource which are used to uniquely identified one DL PRS resource. 2. An RSRP measurement of one DL PRS resource. 3. An ID of Rx beam used to measure the DL PRS resource. 4. An RSTD measured from one DL PRS resource which is calculated with respect to the timing measured from another DL PRS resource.
In one exemplary method, a UE can be requested to report the following measurement results on DL PRS resources: 1. A list of DL PRS resources that the UE selected to report to the system. Each DL PRS resource is identified by {an Id of TRP, a Id of DL PRS resource set, a Id of DL PRS resource} . 2. DL PRS RSRP measurement for each reported DL PRS resource. 3. One indication to indicate one of the reported DL PRS resources is used as reference for RSTD measurement in the same reporting instance. This DL PRS resource can be called a first DL PRS resource here. The DL RSTD measurement of each reported DL PRS resource which is measured with respect to the timing measured from the first DL PRS resource in the same reporting instance.
In some embodiments, the DL RSTD measurement is the DL reference signal time difference between two DL PRS resources. It can be calculated from the timing of DL subframe based on the timing estimation from those two DL PRS resources. In one example, a UE calculates the DL reference signal time difference between a first DL PRS resource and a second DL PRS resource and the first DL PRS resource is used as the reference for calculating DL RSTD. The definition of that DL RSTD is DL relative timing difference between the downlink timing based on the first DL PRS resource and the second DL PRS resource, calculated as T
timingRx2-T
timingRx1, where T
timingRx2 is the time when the UE receives the start of one subframe that is determined based on the timing measured from the second DL PRS resource, and T
timingRx1 is the time when the UE receives the start of one subframe that is determined based on the timing measured from the first DL PRS resource which is closest in time to the subframe determined based on measurement from the second DL PRS resource.
In one embodiment, a UE can be requested to report UE Rx-Tx time difference calculated based on measurement from one DL PRS resource and transmission of one SRS resource for positioning. The UE can be provided with configurations of one or more downlink PRS (positioning reference signal) resource sets. Each DL PRS resource set consists of M≥1 DL PRS resource (s) . The UE can be provided with configurations of DL PRS resource sets for one or more positioning TRPs. The UE can be provided with one or more downlink PRS resource sets for each positioning TRP and in each DL PRS resource set, the UE can be provided with one or more DL PRS resources. The TRP can apply different spatial domain transmit filter on the transmission of different DL PRS resources. The UE can also be configured with one or more SRS resource sets for positioning and in each SRS resource set, the UE can be configured with one or more SRS resources for positioning. Each SRS resource can be transmitted towards a serving cell or a non-serving cell. The system can indicate the transmission beam direction for one SRS resource through configuring a spatial relation info to the SRS resource. The spatial relation info configured to a SRS resource for positioning can be a SS/PBCH block or DL PRS resource from a serving cell or non-serving cell. For the transmission of SRS resource for positioning, we can have different methods for uplink timing adjustment. One method is the UE can apply the same timing advance of the system on the transmission of one SRS resource for positioning. Another method is the UE can apply a dedicated timing advance on the transmission of one SRS resource for positioning, which can be different from the timing advance applied on the uplink transmission of PUSCH, PUCCH and normal SRS resource. The UE can be requested to report UE Rx-Tx time difference determined from the measurement from one DL PRS resource and transmission of one SRS resource for positioning.
In some embodiments, in one positioning measurement reporting instance, the UE can be requested to report one or more of the following information: 1. One or more UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement values. 2. For each UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement, the UE reports one DL PRS resource and one SRS resource for positioning that are used to determine this UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement. One UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement determined from a first DL PRS resource and a second SRS resource is defined as T
Rx-T
Tx, where T
Rx is the UE received timing of downlink subframe that is determined based on measurement from the first DL PRS resource and T
Tx is the UE transmit timing of uplink subframe that is determined based on the transmission of the second SRS resource, which is closet in time to the DL subframe determined from the measurement of the first DL PRS resource. For the DL PRS resource, the UE reports {an Id of TRP, an Id of DL PRS resource set, an Id of DL PRS} that is used to uniquely identify one DL PRS resource. For the SRS resource, the UE reports {an Id of CC, an Id of BWP, an Id of SRS resource} that is used to uniquely identify one SRS resource for positioning. 3. The UE can also report RSRP measurement of one reported DL PRS resource. 4. The UE can also report the Id of Rx beam that is used to measure one reported DL PRS resource.
In some embodiments, the UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement is the relative timing difference between downlink timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from one SRS resource for positioning. We can call it as UE DL PRS Rx-SRS Tx time difference. It can be calculated from the timing of DL subframe based on the timing estimated from one DL PRS resource and timing of UL subframe based on the timing estimated from the transmission of one SRS resource. In one example, a UE calculates the UE DL PRS Rx-SRS Tx time difference between a first DL PRS resource and a second SRS resource. The definition of that UE DL PRS Rx-SRS Tx time difference is defined as T
Rx, PRS-T
Tx, SRS, where T
Rx, PRS is the UE received timing of downlink subframe that is determined based on measurement from the first DL PRS resource, and T
Tx, SRS is the UE transmit timing of uplink subframe that is determined based on the transmission of the second SRS resource, which is closet in time to the DL subframe determined from the measurement of the first DL PRS resource.
In one exemplary method, the reporting granularity for DL RSTD measurement and UE Rx-Tx time difference is T
c×2
k, where k can be provided by the system through a higher layer parameter. The value of T
c is T
c=1/ (480KHz) /4096. In one example, the value of k can be: -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
In one exemplary method, a UE may be configured to report quality metrics corresponding to the DL RSTD and UE Rx-Tx time difference measurements which include the following values: 1. A timing measurement quality value which provides the best estimate of the uncertainty of the measurement. 2. A timing measurement quality resolution which specifies the resolution levels used in the timing measurement quality value. In one example, the timing measurement quality resolution can be 0.05, 0.03, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10 or 30 meters.
An example of higher layer parameter for reporting quality metric is given as Table 2:
Table 2:
In summary, in some embodiments of this disclosure, some exemplary methods for positioning measurement and reporting are presented in this disclosure: 1. The UE can measure multiple DL PRS resource sets from multiple TRPs. The UE reports the PRS RSRP for a few selected DL PRS resources. Among those DL PRS resources, one DL PRS resource is used as reference and the UE reports DL RSTD measurement for other reported DL PRS resources with respect to the reference DL PRS resource. 2. The UE can be requested to report per-DL PRS resource/SRS resource UE Rx-Tx time difference. That is calculated from the downlink timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from the transmission timing of one SRS resource. 3. For the reported RSTD, the reporting granularity can be T
c×2
k, where k can be provided by the system through a higher layer parameter. The value of T
c is T
c=1/ (480KHz) /4096. In one example, the value of k can be: -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
The following 3GPP standards are incorporated in some embodiments of this disclosure by reference in their entireties: 3GPP TS 38.211 V16.0.0: "NR; Physical channels and modulation" , 3GPP TS 38.212 V16.0.0: "NR; Multiplexing and channel coding" , 3GPP TS 38.213 V16.0.0: "NR; Physical layer procedures for control" , 3GPP TS 38.214 V16.0.0: "NR; Physical layer procedures for data" , 3GPP TS 38.215 V16.0.0: "NR; Physical layer measurements" , 3GPP TS 38.321 V16.0.0: "NR; Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification" , and 3GPP TS 38.331 V16.0.0: "NR; Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification" .
The following table includes some abbreviations, which may be used in some embodiments of the present disclosure:
3GPP | 3 rd Generation Partnership Project |
5G | 5 th Generation |
NR | New Radio |
LTE | Long term evolution |
gNB | Next generation NodeB |
DL | Downlink |
UL | Uplink |
CSI | Channel state information |
CSI-RS | Channel state information reference signal |
CORESET | Control Resource Set |
DCI | Downlink control information |
TRP | Transmission/reception point |
RRC | Radio Resource Control |
RB | Resource Block |
PRB | Physical Resource Block |
RBG | Resource Block Group |
LCS | Location services |
DL-TDOA | Downlink Time difference of arrival |
NW | Network |
RSTD | Reference signal time difference |
DL PRS | Downlink Positioning reference signal |
QCL | Quasi co-locate |
SS/PBCH | Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel |
RSTD | Reference signal time difference |
PRS-RSRP | PRS-reference signal received power |
Commercial interests for some embodiments are as follows. 1. Solving issues in the prior art. 2. Reaching a good balance between a resource overhead and a good positioning performance in a system deployment. 3. Providing a good communication performance. 4. Providing high reliability. 5. Some embodiments of the present disclosure are used by 5G-NR chipset vendors, V2X communication system development vendors, automakers including cars, trains, trucks, buses, bicycles, moto-bikes, helmets, and etc., drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) , smartphone makers, communication devices for public safety use, AR/VR device maker for example gaming, conference/seminar, education purposes. The deployment scenarios include, but not limited to, indoor hotspot, dense urban, urban micro, urban macro, rural, factor hall, and indoor D2D scenarios. Some embodiments of the present disclosure are a combination of “techniques/processes” that can be adopted in 3GPP specification to create an end product. Some embodiments of the present disclosure could be adopted in 5G NR licensed and non-licensed or shared spectrum communications. Some embodiments of the present disclosure propose technical mechanisms. The present example embodiment is applicable to NR in unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) . The present disclosure can be applied to other mobile networks, in particular to mobile network of any further generation cellular network technology (6G, etc. ) .
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an example system 700 for wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Embodiments described herein may be implemented into the system using any suitably configured hardware and/or software. FIG. 5 illustrates the system 700 including a radio frequency (RF) circuitry 710, a baseband circuitry 720, an application circuitry 730, a memory/storage 740, a display 750, a camera 760, a sensor 770, and an input/output (I/O) interface 780, coupled with each other at least as illustrated. The application circuitry 730 may include a circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors. The processors may include any combination of general-purpose processors and dedicated processors, such as graphics processors, application processors. The processors may be coupled with the memory/storage and configured to execute instructions stored in the memory/storage to enable various applications and/or operating systems running on the system.
The baseband circuitry 720 may include circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors. The processors may include a baseband processor. The baseband circuitry may handle various radio control functions that enables communication with one or more radio networks via the RF circuitry. The radio control functions may include, but are not limited to, signal modulation, encoding, decoding, radio frequency shifting, etc. In some embodiments, the baseband circuitry may provide for communication compatible with one or more radio technologies. For example, in some embodiments, the baseband circuitry may support communication with an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) and/or other wireless metropolitan area networks (WMAN) , a wireless local area network (WLAN) , a wireless personal area network (WPAN) . Embodiments in which the baseband circuitry is configured to support radio communications of more than one wireless protocol may be referred to as multi-mode baseband circuitry.
In various embodiments, the baseband circuitry 720 may include circuitry to operate with signals that are not strictly considered as being in a baseband frequency. For example, in some embodiments, baseband circuitry may include circuitry to operate with signals having an intermediate frequency, which is between a baseband frequency and a radio frequency. The RF circuitry 710 may enable communication with wireless networks using modulated electromagnetic radiation through a non-solid medium. In various embodiments, the RF circuitry may include switches, filters, amplifiers, etc. to facilitate the communication with the wireless network. In various embodiments, the RF circuitry 710 may include circuitry to operate with signals that are not strictly considered as being in a radio frequency. For example, in some embodiments, RF circuitry may include circuitry to operate with signals having an intermediate frequency, which is between a baseband frequency and a radio frequency.
In various embodiments, the transmitter circuitry, control circuitry, or receiver circuitry discussed above with respect to the user equipment, eNB, or gNB may be embodied in whole or in part in one or more of the RF circuitry, the baseband circuitry, and/or the application circuitry. As used herein, “circuitry” may refer to, be part of, or include an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) , an electronic circuit, a processor (shared, dedicated, or group) , and/or a memory (shared, dedicated, or group) that execute one or more software or firmware programs, a combinational logic circuit, and/or other suitable hardware components that provide the described functionality. In some embodiments, the electronic device circuitry may be implemented in, or functions associated with the circuitry may be implemented by, one or more software or firmware modules. In some embodiments, some or all of the constituent components of the baseband circuitry, the application circuitry, and/or the memory/storage may be implemented together on a system on a chip (SOC) . The memory/storage 740 may be used to load and store data and/or instructions, for example, for system. The memory/storage for one embodiment may include any combination of suitable volatile memory, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM) ) , and/or non-volatile memory, such as flash memory.
In various embodiments, the I/O interface 780 may include one or more user interfaces designed to enable user interaction with the system and/or peripheral component interfaces designed to enable peripheral component interaction with the system. User interfaces may include, but are not limited to a physical keyboard or keypad, a touchpad, a speaker, a microphone, etc. Peripheral component interfaces may include, but are not limited to, a non-volatile memory port, a universal serial bus (USB) port, an audio jack, and a power supply interface. In various embodiments, the sensor 770 may include one or more sensing devices to determine environmental conditions and/or location information related to the system. In some embodiments, the sensors may include, but are not limited to, a gyro sensor, an accelerometer, a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a positioning unit. The positioning unit may also be part of, or interact with, the baseband circuitry and/or RF circuitry to communicate with components of a positioning network, e.g., a global positioning system (GPS) satellite.
In various embodiments, the display 750 may include a display, such as a liquid crystal display and a touch screen display. In various embodiments, the system 700 may be a mobile computing device such as, but not limited to, a laptop computing device, a tablet computing device, a netbook, an ultrabook, a smartphone, an AR/VR glasses, etc. In various embodiments, system may have more or less components, and/or different architectures. Where appropriate, methods described herein may be implemented as a computer program. The computer program may be stored on a storage medium, such as a non-transitory storage medium.
A person having ordinary skill in the art understands that each of the units, algorithm, and steps described and disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are realized using electronic hardware or combinations of software for computers and electronic hardware. Whether the functions run in hardware or software depends on the condition of application and design requirement for a technical plan. A person having ordinary skill in the art can use different ways to realize the function for each specific application while such realizations should not go beyond the scope of the present disclosure. It is understood by a person having ordinary skill in the art that he/she can refer to the working processes of the system, device, and unit in the above-mentioned embodiment since the working processes of the above-mentioned system, device, and unit are basically the same. For easy description and simplicity, these working processes will not be detailed.
It is understood that the disclosed system, device, and method in the embodiments of the present disclosure can be realized with other ways. The above-mentioned embodiments are exemplary only. The division of the units is merely based on logical functions while other divisions exist in realization. It is possible that a plurality of units or components are combined or integrated in another system. It is also possible that some characteristics are omitted or skipped. On the other hand, the displayed or discussed mutual coupling, direct coupling, or communicative coupling operate through some ports, devices, or units whether indirectly or communicatively by ways of electrical, mechanical, or other kinds of forms.
The units as separating components for explanation are or are not physically separated. The units for display are or are not physical units, that is, located in one place or distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units are used according to the purposes of the embodiments. Moreover, each of the functional units in each of the embodiments can be integrated in one processing unit, physically independent, or integrated in one processing unit with two or more than two units.
If the software function unit is realized and used and sold as a product, it can be stored in a readable storage medium in a computer. Based on this understanding, the technical plan proposed by the present disclosure can be essentially or partially realized as the form of a software product. Or, one part of the technical plan beneficial to the conventional technology can be realized as the form of a software product. The software product in the computer is stored in a storage medium, including a plurality of commands for a computational device (such as a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to run all or some of the steps disclosed by the embodiments of the present disclosure. The storage medium includes a USB disk, a mobile hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM) , a random access memory (RAM) , a floppy disk, or other kinds of media capable of storing program codes.
While the present disclosure has been described in connection with what is considered the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the disclosed embodiments but is intended to cover various arrangements made without departing from the scope of the broadest interpretation of the appended claims.
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- A wireless communication method by a user equipment (UE) , comprising:being configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources; andmeasuring the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- The method of claim 1, wherein for each DL PRS resource set or each DL PRS resource, the UE is provided, by the base station, with at least one of configuration parameters.
- The method of claim 2, wherein the at least one of configuration parameters comprises:a DL PRS resource set identifier (ID) that defines an identity of the PRS resource set configuration;a DL PRS resource transmission type that is used to indicate a time domain behavior of DL PRS resource transmission;parameters to indicate a DL PRS resource periodicity and a slot offset;a parameter to indicate a number of repetitions of one DL PRS resource;a parameter to indicate a time gap between two adjacent repetitions of a DL PRS resource;a parameter to indicate a number of slots for triggering offset;a parameter to indicate a number of periodicities that the DL PRS resource is transmitted when a base station activates a transmission of the DL PRS resource;a time domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource within one slot;a frequency domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource; ora quasi-colocation information configured to the DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 2, wherein the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is only transmitted upon a triggering or activation command sent by a system, or the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically.
- The method of claim 2, wherein the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted by the base station upon a request from the UE.
- The method of claim 2, wherein if a first DL PRS resource is transmitted only when the base station triggers the first DL PRS resource, the first DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the first DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 2, wherein if a second DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically, the second DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the second DL PRS resource within each periodicity.
- The method of claim 2, wherein the parameter to indicate the time gap between two adjacent repetitions of the DL PRS resource can be in terms of one or more slots or one or more symbols.
- The method of claim 2, wherein the time domain resource allocation comprises a number of symbols allocated for the DL PRS resource, and an index of a starting symbol in one slot.
- The method of claim 2, wherein the frequency domain resource allocation comprises a starting physical resource block (PRB) , a DL PRS resource bandwidth in terms of a number of PRBs allocated to the DL PRS resource, and/or a resource element (RE) offset of a first symbol within one DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 2, wherein a DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-D with the DL PRS or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a serving cell or a non-serving cell, and/or the DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-C with the SS/PBCH block from the serving cell or the non-serving cell.
- The method of claim 11, wherein if the DL PRS is configured as both QCL-Type-C and QCL-Type-D with the SS/PBCH block, an SSB index indicated is same.
- The method of claim 1, wherein the UE is configured to report a PRS reference signal received power (RSRP) for selected DL PRS resources.
- The method of claim 13, wherein in the selected DL PRS resources, one DL PRS resource is used as a reference, and the UE is configured to report a DL reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement for reported DL PRS resources with respect to the DL PRS resource used as the reference.
- The method of claim 13, wherein the UE is requested to report one or more of the following information:an identifier (ID) of the TRP, an ID of the PRS resource set, and/or an ID of the PRS resource;an RSRP measurement of one DL PRS resource;an ID of a receive (Rx) beam used to measure the DL PRS resource; oran RSTD measured from one DL PRS resource which is calculated with respect to timing measured from another DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 13, wherein the UE is requested to report the following measurement results on DL PRS resources:a list of DL PRS resources that the UE selects to report to a system;a DL PRS RSRP measurement for each reported DL PRS resource;one indication to indicate one of the reported DL PRS resources used as a reference for an RSTD measurement; ora DL RSTD measurement of each reported DL PRS resource which is measured with respect to timing measured from a first DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 16, wherein the UE is requested to report a UE receive and transmission (Rx-Tx) time difference for per DL PRS resource/sounding reference signal (SRS) resource.
- The method of claim 17, wherein the UE Rx-Tx time difference is calculated from DL timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from transmission timing of one SRS resource.
- The method of claim 17, wherein for the UE Rx-Tx time difference, the UE is requested to report one or more of the following information:one or more UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement values;one DL PRS resource and one SRS resource for positioning that are used to determine the UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement;an RSRP measurement of one reported DL PRS resource; oran ID of a Rx beam that is used to measure one reported DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 17, wherein a reporting granularity for the DL RSTD measurement and the UE Rx-Tx time difference is equal to T c×2 k, where k is provided by a system through a higher layer parameter, a value of T c is equal to 1/ (480KHz) /4096, and a value of k is equal to -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- A wireless communication method by a base station, comprising:configuring, to a user equipment (UE) , a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources; andcontrolling the UE to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- The method of claim 21, wherein for each DL PRS resource set or each DL PRS resource, the base station is configured to provide, to the UE, at least one of configuration parameters.
- The method of claim 22, wherein the at least one of configuration parameters comprises:a DL PRS resource set identifier (ID) that defines an identity of the PRS resource set configuration;a DL PRS resource transmission type that is used to indicate a time domain behavior of DL PRS resource transmission;parameters to indicate a DL PRS resource periodicity and a slot offset;a parameter to indicate a number of repetitions of one DL PRS resource;a parameter to indicate a time gap between two adjacent repetitions of a DL PRS resource;a parameter to indicate a number of slots for triggering offset;a parameter to indicate a number of periodicities that the DL PRS resource is transmitted when a base station activates a transmission of the DL PRS resource;a time domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource within one slot;a frequency domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource; ora quasi-colocation information configured to the DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 22, wherein the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is only transmitted upon a triggering or activation command sent by a system, or the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically.
- The method of claim 22, wherein the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted by the base station upon a request from the UE.
- The method of claim 22, wherein if a first DL PRS resource is transmitted only when the base station triggers the first DL PRS resource, the first DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the first DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 22, wherein if a second DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically, the second DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the second DL PRS resource within each periodicity.
- The method of claim 22, wherein the parameter to indicate the time gap between two adjacent repetitions of the DL PRS resource can be in terms of one or more slots or one or more symbols.
- The method of claim 22, wherein the time domain resource allocation comprises a number of symbols allocated for the DL PRS resource, and an index of a starting symbol in one slot.
- The method of claim 22, wherein the frequency domain resource allocation comprises a starting physical resource block (PRB) , a DL PRS resource bandwidth in terms of a number of PRBs allocated to the DL PRS resource, and/or a resource element (RE) offset of a first symbol within one DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 22, wherein a DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-D with the DL PRS or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a serving cell or a non-serving cell, and/or the DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-C with the SS/PBCH block from the serving cell or the non-serving cell.
- The method of claim 31, wherein if the DL PRS is configured as both QCL-Type-C and QCL-Type-D with the SS/PBCH block, an SSB index indicated is same.
- The method of claim 21, wherein the base station is configured to control the UE to report a PRS reference signal received power (RSRP) for selected DL PRS resources.
- The method of claim 33, wherein in the selected DL PRS resources, one DL PRS resource is used as a reference, and the base station is configured to control the UE to report a DL reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement for reported DL PRS resources with respect to the DL PRS resource used as the reference.
- The method of claim 33, wherein the base station is configured to control the UE to report one or more of the following information:an identifier (ID) of the TRP, an ID of the PRS resource set, and/or an ID of the PRS resource;an RSRP measurement of one DL PRS resource;an ID of a receive (Rx) beam used to measure the DL PRS resource; oran RSTD measured from one DL PRS resource which is calculated with respect to timing measured from another DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 33, wherein the base station is configured to control the UE to report the following measurement results on DL PRS resources:a list of DL PRS resources that the UE selects to report to a system;a DL PRS RSRP measurement for each reported DL PRS resource;one indication to indicate one of the reported DL PRS resources used as a reference for an RSTD measurement; ora DL RSTD measurement of each reported DL PRS resource which is measured with respect to timing measured from a first DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 36, wherein the base station is configured to control the UE to report a UE receive and transmission (Rx-Tx) time difference for per DL PRS resource/sounding reference signal (SRS) resource.
- The method of claim 37, wherein the UE Rx-Tx time difference is calculated from DL timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from transmission timing of one SRS resource.
- The method of claim 37, wherein for the UE Rx-Tx time difference, the base station is configured to control the UE to report one or more of the following information:one or more UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement values;one DL PRS resource and one SRS resource for positioning that are used to determine the UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement;an RSRP measurement of one reported DL PRS resource; oran ID of a Rx beam that is used to measure one reported DL PRS resource.
- The method of claim 37, wherein a reporting granularity for the DL RSTD measurement and the UE Rx-Tx time difference is equal to T c×2 k, where k is provided by a system through a higher layer parameter, a value of T c is equal to 1/ (480KHz) /4096, and a value of k is equal to -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- A user equipment (UE) , comprising:a memory;a transceiver; anda processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver;wherein the processor is configured, by a base station, with a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources; andwherein the processor is configured to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- The UE of claim 41, wherein for each DL PRS resource set or each DL PRS resource, the processor is provided, by the base station, with at least one of configuration parameters.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein the at least one of configuration parameters comprises:a DL PRS resource set identifier (ID) that defines an identity of the PRS resource set configuration;a DL PRS resource transmission type that is used to indicate a time domain behavior of DL PRS resource transmission;parameters to indicate a DL PRS resource periodicity and a slot offset;a parameter to indicate a number of repetitions of one DL PRS resource;a parameter to indicate a time gap between two adjacent repetitions of a DL PRS resource;a parameter to indicate a number of slots for triggering offset;a parameter to indicate a number of periodicities that the DL PRS resource is transmitted when a base station activates a transmission of the DL PRS resource;a time domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource within one slot;a frequency domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource; ora quasi-colocation information configured to the DL PRS resource.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is only transmitted upon a triggering or activation command sent by a system, or the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted by the base station upon a request from the processor.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein if a first DL PRS resource is transmitted only when the base station triggers the first DL PRS resource, the first DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the first DL PRS resource.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein if a second DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically, the second DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the second DL PRS resource within each periodicity.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein the parameter to indicate the time gap between two adjacent repetitions of the DL PRS resource can be in terms of one or more slots or one or more symbols.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein the time domain resource allocation comprises a number of symbols allocated for the DL PRS resource, and an index of a starting symbol in one slot.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein the frequency domain resource allocation comprises a starting physical resource block (PRB) , a DL PRS resource bandwidth in terms of a number of PRBs allocated to the DL PRS resource, and/or a resource element (RE) offset of a first symbol within one DL PRS resource.
- The UE of claim 42, wherein a DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-D with the DL PRS or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a serving cell or a non-serving cell, and/or the DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-C with the SS/PBCH block from the serving cell or the non-serving cell.
- The UE of claim 51, wherein if the DL PRS is configured as both QCL-Type-C and QCL-Type-D with the SS/PBCH block, an SSB index indicated is same.
- The UE of claim 41, wherein the processor is configured to report a PRS reference signal received power (RSRP) for selected DL PRS resources.
- The UE of claim 53, wherein in the selected DL PRS resources, one DL PRS resource is used as a reference, and the processor is configured to report a DL reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement for reported DL PRS resources with respect to the DL PRS resource used as the reference.
- The UE of claim 53, wherein the processor is requested to report one or more of the following information:an identifier (ID) of the TRP, an ID of the PRS resource set, and/or an ID of the PRS resource;an RSRP measurement of one DL PRS resource;an ID of a receive (Rx) beam used to measure the DL PRS resource; oran RSTD measured from one DL PRS resource which is calculated with respect to timing measured from another DL PRS resource.
- The UE of claim 53, wherein the processor is requested to report the following measurement results on DL PRS resources:a list of DL PRS resources that the processor selects to report to a system;a DL PRS RSRP measurement for each reported DL PRS resource;one indication to indicate one of the reported DL PRS resources used as a reference for an RSTD measurement; ora DL RSTD measurement of each reported DL PRS resource which is measured with respect to timing measured from a first DL PRS resource.
- The UE of claim 56, wherein the processor is requested to report a UE receive and transmission (Rx-Tx) time difference for per DL PRS resource/sounding reference signal (SRS) resource.
- The UE of claim 57, wherein the UE Rx-Tx time difference is calculated from DL timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from transmission timing of one SRS resource.
- The UE of claim 57, wherein for the UE Rx-Tx time difference, the processor is requested to report one or more of the following information:one or more UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement values;one DL PRS resource and one SRS resource for positioning that are used to determine the UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement;an RSRP measurement of one reported DL PRS resource; oran ID of a Rx beam that is used to measure one reported DL PRS resource.
- The UE of claim 57, wherein a reporting granularity for the DL RSTD measurement and the UE Rx-Tx time difference is equal to T c×2 k , where k is provided by a system through a higher layer parameter, a value of T c is equal to 1/ (480KHz) /4096, and a value of k is equal to -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- A base station, comprising:a memory;a transceiver; anda processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver;wherein the processor is configured to configure, to a user equipment (UE) , a configuration of one or more downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) resource sets for one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) , wherein each DL PRS resource set comprises one or more DL PRS resources; andwherein the processor is configured to control the UE to measure the one or more DL PRS resource sets from the one or more transmission/reception points (TRPs) .
- The base station of claim 61, wherein for each DL PRS resource set or each DL PRS resource, the processor is configured to provide, to the UE, at least one of configuration parameters.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein the at least one of configuration parameters comprises:a DL PRS resource set identifier (ID) that defines an identity of the PRS resource set configuration;a DL PRS resource transmission type that is used to indicate a time domain behavior of DL PRS resource transmission;parameters to indicate a DL PRS resource periodicity and a slot offset;a parameter to indicate a number of repetitions of one DL PRS resource;a parameter to indicate a time gap between two adjacent repetitions of a DL PRS resource;a parameter to indicate a number of slots for triggering offset;a parameter to indicate a number of periodicities that the DL PRS resource is transmitted when a base station activates a transmission of the DL PRS resource;a time domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource within one slot;a frequency domain resource allocation for the DL PRS resource; ora quasi-colocation information configured to the DL PRS resource.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is only transmitted upon a triggering or activation command sent by a system, or the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein the DL PRS resource transmission type can indicate that the DL PRS resource is transmitted by the transceiver upon a request from the UE.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein if a first DL PRS resource is transmitted only when the processor triggers the first DL PRS resource, the first DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the first DL PRS resource.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein if a second DL PRS resource is transmitted periodically, the second DL PRS resource is repeated for the number of repetitions of the second DL PRS resource within each periodicity.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein the parameter to indicate the time gap between two adjacent repetitions of the DL PRS resource can be in terms of one or more slots or one or more symbols.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein the time domain resource allocation comprises a number of symbols allocated for the DL PRS resource, and an index of a starting symbol in one slot.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein the frequency domain resource allocation comprises a starting physical resource block (PRB) , a DL PRS resource bandwidth in terms of a number of PRBs allocated to the DL PRS resource, and/or a resource element (RE) offset of a first symbol within one DL PRS resource.
- The base station of claim 62, wherein a DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-D with the DL PRS or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a serving cell or a non-serving cell, and/or the DL PRS can be configured to be QCL-Type-C with the SS/PBCH block from the serving cell or the non-serving cell.
- The base station of claim 71, wherein if the DL PRS is configured as both QCL-Type-C and QCL-Type-D with the SS/PBCH block, an SSB index indicated is same.
- The base station of claim 61, wherein the processor is configured to control the UE to report a PRS reference signal received power (RSRP) for selected DL PRS resources.
- The base station of claim 73, wherein in the selected DL PRS resources, one DL PRS resource is used as a reference, and the processor is configured to control the UE to report a DL reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement for reported DL PRS resources with respect to the DL PRS resource used as the reference.
- The base station of claim 73, wherein the processor is configured to control the UE to report one or more of the following information:an identifier (ID) of the TRP, an ID of the PRS resource set, and/or an ID of the PRS resource;an RSRP measurement of one DL PRS resource;an ID of a receive (Rx) beam used to measure the DL PRS resource; oran RSTD measured from one DL PRS resource which is calculated with respect to timing measured from another DL PRS resource.
- The base station of claim 73, wherein the processor is configured to control the UE to report the following measurement results on DL PRS resources:a list of DL PRS resources that the UE selects to report to a system;a DL PRS RSRP measurement for each reported DL PRS resource;one indication to indicate one of the reported DL PRS resources used as a reference for an RSTD measurement; ora DL RSTD measurement of each reported DL PRS resource which is measured with respect to timing measured from a first DL PRS resource.
- The base station of claim 76, wherein the processor is configured to control the UE to report a UE receive and transmission (Rx-Tx) time difference for per DL PRS resource/sounding reference signal (SRS) resource.
- The base station of claim 77, wherein the UE Rx-Tx time difference is calculated from DL timing determined from one DL PRS resource and uplink timing determined from transmission timing of one SRS resource.
- The base station of claim 77, wherein for the UE Rx-Tx time difference, the processor is configured to control the UE to report one or more of the following information:one or more UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement values;one DL PRS resource and one SRS resource for positioning that are used to determine the UE Rx-Tx time difference measurement;an RSRP measurement of one reported DL PRS resource; oran ID of a Rx beam that is used to measure one reported DL PRS resource.
- The base station of claim 77, wherein a reporting granularity for the DL RSTD measurement and the UE Rx-Tx time difference is equal to T c×2 k, where k is provided by a system through a higher layer parameter, a value of T c is equal to 1/ (480KHz) /4096, and a value of k is equal to -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
- A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 40.
- A chip, comprising:a processor, configured to call and run a computer program stored in a memory, to cause a device in which the chip is installed to execute the method of any one of claims 1 to 40.
- A computer readable storage medium, in which a computer program is stored, wherein the computer program causes a computer to execute the method of any one of claims 1 to 40.
- A computer program product, comprising a computer program, wherein the computer program causes a computer to execute the method of any one of claims 1 to 40.
- A computer program, wherein the computer program causes a computer to execute the method of any one of claims 1 to 40.
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