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

Claim 4:
5. A method comprising:
receiving a request for a report on beamforming capability from a serving base station;
sending the report on the beamforming capability to the serving base station;
receiving 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 relations; and
performing beam sweeping on uplink positioning reference signal transmissions using the received positioning reference signal resource allocation based on the beam sweeping rule.