Patent ID: 9272851
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: B05C,B65G,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection by a base station with a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication network, wherein the base station is involved in Minimization of Drive Test measurements and logging; receiving a power headroom report (PHR) corresponding to a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) from the UE; performing uplink measurements of a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) allocated in the PUSCH corresponding to the PHR, wherein the uplink measurements also involves measuring an uplink received interference power (RIP) associated with the PUSCH corresponding to the PHR; reporting uplink measurement results of the PUSCH associated with the PHR and corresponding physical resource block (PRB) indices of the PUSCH corresponding to the PHR to an MDT server for determining uplink coverage.