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Reference signal sounding for uplink pilot time slot in wireless communication system

US8320267B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 23, 2009
Grant dateNov 27, 2012
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Expiry dateNov 4, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L5/0044
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A wireless terminal operating in TDD mode transmits a plurality of sounding reference signals using an assigned maximum sounding reference signal (SRS) bandwidth (BW) size. At least one of the sounding reference signals is transmitted in a corresponding uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) region of a special sub-frame of a radio frame wherein, in the frequency dimension, an uplink BW center is misaligned with a BW center of the SRS in the UpPTS region, a maximum SRS BW size in the UpPTS region is an even number of resource blocks with prime factors from a set of {2, 3, 5}, and the maximum SRS BW having a size in number of resource blocks less than or equal to (NRBUL−6·NRA) where NRA is a number of Random Access Channel (RACH) opportunities in the UpPTS region.

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