Patent ID: 11863282
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A base station in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:
at least one transceiver; and
at least one processor configured to:
receive, from a user equipment (UE) via the at least one transceiver, capability information including information indicating whether a selection of an uplink transmission beam of the UE without an uplink beam sweeping is available in the UE or not;
transmit, to the UE via the at least one transceiver, configuration information for a sounding reference signal (SRS); and
receive, from the UE via the at least one transceiver, one or more SRSs using one or more uplink transmission beams of the UE based on the configuration information,

wherein, in case that the selection of the uplink transmission beam of the UE without the uplink beam sweeping is unavailable, the capability information is associated with a number of SRSs for an uplink beam search in the configuration information.