Patent ID: 9609643
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for transmitting a sounding signal, comprising: receiving a trigger message transmitted by a base station, wherein the trigger message comprises instruction information for instructing at least one user equipment (UE) in a group of UEs to transmit a sounding signal, and the group of UEs comprises at least two UEs; and transmitting the sounding signal to the base station according to the instruction information; wherein simultaneous with, before, or after the receiving the trigger message transmitted by the base station, the method further comprises: receiving a notification message transmitted by the base station, wherein the notification message comprises configuration information of a sounding signal resource; and wherein the transmitting the sounding signal to the base station according to the instruction information comprises: transmitting the sounding signal to the base station on a sounding signal resource corresponding to the UE according to the instruction information, wherein the sounding signal resource corresponding to the UE is calculated by the UE based on the configuration information of the sounding signal resource according to an intra-group position or an intra-number of the UE.