Patent ID: 11910353
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus to be used in a Next Generation Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) node including a plurality of Transmission-Reception Points (TRPs), the apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry, wherein to configure the NG-RAN node for positioning measurement reporting by the plurality of TRPs using NR Positioning Protocol A (NRPPa), the processing circuitry is to:
decode a measurement request from a location management function (LMF) node of the NG-RAN,
the measurement request associated with a NRPPa measurement procedure and identifying TRP IDs of two or more TRPs of the plurality of TRPs in the NG-RAN node, and
the measurement request including an information element (IE) type enumerating requested positioning measurements to be performed by the two or more TRPs for a target user equipment (UE), the requested positioning measurements performed at a periodicity specified by the measurement request; and
encode a measurement response for transmission to the LMF node based on the measurement request, the measurement response including measurement results of the NRPPa measurement procedure obtained by a particular TRP of the two or more TRPs for the requested positioning measurements, the measurement results associated with a TRP ID of the particular TRP, and the measurement results obtained at the periodicity specified by the measurement request; and

a memory coupled to the processing circuitry and configured to store the requested positioning measurements.