Patent ID: 11956040
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform the following:
receive a request for a report on beamforming capability from a serving base station;
send the report on the beamforming capability to the serving base station;
receive information relating to at least one positioning reference signal resource and a beam sweeping rule from the serving base station, wherein the at least one positioning reference signal resource includes one or more positioning reference signal resources for beam sweeping and one or more positioning reference signal resources with configured spatial relations, the one or more positioning reference signal resources for beam sweeping being configured according to a number of beam directions not covered by the one or more positioning reference signal resources with configured spatial relation; and
perform beam sweeping on uplink positioning reference signal transmissions using the received positioning reference signal resource allocation based on the beam sweeping rule.