Patent ID: 9572168
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a base station for controlling uplink signaling from a mobile terminal, the method comprising: determining that at least one of Sounding Reference Signals, SRS, or Channel Quality Indicator, CQI, reports from the mobile terminal should be selectively activated or deactivated for one or more serving cells configured for the mobile terminal; forming a medium access control, MAC, control element, CE, a portion of said MAC CE indicating, individually for the one or more serving cells, whether at least one of the SRS or the CQI reports should be transmitted by the mobile terminal responsive to the determining; and transmitting the MAC CE to the mobile terminal, wherein the portion of the MAC CE is further formed to comprise a bitmap containing a plurality of bits, respective ones of the plurality of bits indicating, separately from activation or deactivation of the one or more serving cells, whether the SRS for the one or more serving cells should be transmitted without transmitting CQI reports for the one or more serving cells, whether the CQI reports for the one or more serving cells should be transmitted without transmitting the SRS for the one or more serving cells, or whether both the SRS and the CQI reports for the one or more serving cells should be transmitted.