Apple Inc.
METHODS OF NEXT GENERATION NODEB (GNODEB) SUPERVISED USER EQUIPMENT (UE) SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL (SRS) TRANSMIT (TX) BEAM SWEEPING FOR 5G NEW RADIO (NR) UPLINK BEAM MANAGEMENT

Abstract:

An apparatus configured to be employed in a gNodeB associated with a new radio (NR) communication system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors configured to configure partial spatial reference information associated with at least one sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set of one or more SRS resource sets associated with a user equipment (UE), that forms a select SRS resource set. In some embodiments, the partial spatial reference information comprises information on a partial spatial reference resource configured for one or more SRS resources associated with the select SRS resource set, to be utilized by the UE to generate one or more SRS transmit beam patterns for transmitting the one or more SRS resources, respectively, such that the one or more SRS transmit beam patterns are in a spatial neighborhood of a beam pattern associated with the configured partial spatial reference resource.