Patent ID: 11924810
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. A method for wireless communications by a base station (BS), comprising:
determining a plurality of narrowband regions partitioned from system bandwidth, the plurality of narrowband regions comprising one or more downlink (DL) narrowband regions and one or more uplink (UL) narrowband regions for communicating with a user equipment (UE);
determining resources, within the one or more UL narrowband regions, for transmission of sounding reference signals (SRS) by the UE, a location of the resources, within the one or more UL narrowband region, for transmission of the SRS by the UE is based on a location of the UL narrowband region within the system bandwidth, wherein determining resources includes determining no resources for the transmission of the SRS in one or more more of the UL narrowband regions; and
communicating with the UE using the narrowband regions, wherein the communicating comprises receiving SRS on the determined resources.