Patent Description:
Positioning reference signals (Positioning Reference Signal, PRS) are reference signals (Reference Signal, RS) used for downlink positioning. User equipment (User Equipment, UE) measures PRSs transmitted from a plurality of cells (cell) or a plurality of transmission points, to obtain a reference signal time difference (Reference Signal Time Difference, RSTD) between the plurality of cells or transmission points. Then, the UE transmits the obtained RSTD information to an evolved serving mobile location center (Evolved Serving Mobile Location Center, E-SMLC), and the E-SMLC obtains a location of the UE through calculation.

In addition to downlink positioning, uplink positioning is also supported in LTE. Uplink reference signals used for uplink positioning in LTE are sounding reference signals (Sounding Reference Signal, SRS). A location measurement unit (Location Measurement Unit, LMU) located on an eNB side is used for estimating an uplink reference signal reception time difference of the UE to estimate a location of the UE, with no need for the UE to participate in positioning measurement and calculation.

In positioning reference signal resources, each of the symbols following a start symbol has a relative resource element offset (relative RE offset). With a same comb size (comb size) and a same number of symbols, a plurality of configurations may be supported, but how to configure the relative RE offset to support the plurality of configurations has not yet been determined.

<NPL>)) discusses the design of NR DL reference signal for positioning. <NPL>)) provides summary of RAN1 WG agreements on Rel. <NUM> NR Positioning WI. <NPL>)) discusses UL PRS design based on UL SRS. <NPL>)) discusses DL PRS design for positioning.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for mapping a positioning reference signal, a terminal, and a network-side device.

According to a first aspect, an embodiment of this disclosure provides a method for mapping a positioning reference signal, applied to a terminal, as defined in independent claim <NUM>.

According to a second aspect, an embodiment of this disclosure provides a method for mapping a positioning reference signal, applied to a network-side device, as defined in independent claim <NUM>.

According to a third aspect, an embodiment of this disclosure further provides an apparatus for mapping a positioning reference signal, applied to a terminal, as defined in independent claim <NUM>.

According to a fourth aspect, an embodiment of this disclosure provides an apparatus for mapping a positioning reference signal, applied to a network-side device, as defined in independent claim <NUM>.

In the foregoing solution, a terminal obtains mapping information of a positioning reference signal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource; and determines, based on the mapping information, a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. In this way, the terminal can determine, based on the relative resource element offset of each symbol, a resource element location of the positioning reference signal, and transmit the positioning reference signal through the resource element location.

To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of this disclosure more clearly, the following briefly describes the accompanying drawings required for describing the embodiments of this disclosure. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description show merely some embodiments of this disclosure, and a person of ordinary skill in the art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings.

In particular, the embodiments referring to <FIG> and <FIG> are not according to the invention and are present for illustration purposes only. The following describes example embodiments of this disclosure in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although the example embodiments of this disclosure are shown in the accompanying drawings, it should be understood that this disclosure may be implemented in various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forth herein. On the contrary, the embodiments are provided to enable a more thorough understanding of this disclosure and completely convey the scope of this disclosure to persons skilled in the art.

The terms "first", "second", and the like in this specification and claims of this application are used to distinguish between similar objects instead of describing a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that the data used in this way is interchangeable in appropriate circumstances, so that the embodiments of this application described herein can be implemented in other orders than the order illustrated or described herein. In addition, the terms "include", "have", and any other variant thereof are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, system, product, or device that includes a list of steps or units is not necessarily limited to those steps or units that are expressly listed, but may include other steps or units that are not expressly listed or are inherent to the process, method, product, or device. "And/or" in the specification and claims represents at least one of connected objects.

The technologies described herein are not limited to long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-Advanced, LTE-A) systems, and may also be used in various wireless communications systems, such as code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA), time division multiple access (Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA), frequency division multiple access (Frequency Division Multiple Access, FDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, OFDMA), single-carrier frequency division multiple access (Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" are usually used interchangeably. The CDMA system may implement radio technologies such as CDMA2000 and universal terrestrial radio access (Universal Terrestrial Radio Access, UTRA). UTRA includes wideband CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) and other CDMA variants. The TDMA system may implement radio technologies such as global system for mobile communications (Global System for Mobile Communication, GSM). The OFDMA system may implement radio technologies such as ultra mobile broadband (UltraMobile Broadband, UMB), evolved UTRA (Evolution-UTRA, E-UTRA), IEEE <NUM> (Wi-Fi), IEEE <NUM> (WiMAX), IEEE <NUM>, and Flash-OFDM. UTRA and E-UTRA are part of the universal mobile telecommunications system (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, UMTS). LTE and more advanced LTEs (such as LTE-A) are new releases of UMTS that use E-UTRA. UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE, LTE-A, and GSM are described in documents from an organization named "3rd Generation Partnership Project" (3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP). The technologies described herein are applicable not only to the above-mentioned systems and radio technologies, but also to other systems and radio technologies. However, in the following descriptions, an NR system is described for an illustration purpose, and NR terms are used in most of the following descriptions, although these technologies may also be applied to other applications than an NR system application.

Referring to <FIG> is a block diagram of a wireless communications system to which an embodiment of this disclosure may be applied. The wireless communications system includes a terminal <NUM> and a network-side device <NUM>. The terminal <NUM> may also be referred to as a terminal device or user equipment (User Equipment, UE). The terminal <NUM> may be a terminal side device such as a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a laptop computer (Laptop Computer), a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), a mobile internet device (Mobile Internet Device, MID), a wearable device (Wearable Device), or an in-vehicle device. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal <NUM> is not limited in the embodiments of this disclosure. The network-side device <NUM> may be a base station or a core network, where the base station may be a base station of <NUM> or a later version (for example, gNB or <NUM> NR NB), or a base station in other communications systems (for example, an eNB, a WLAN access point, or another access point), or a location server (for example: E-SMLC or LMF (Location Manager Function)). The base station may be referred to as a NodeB, an evolved NodeB, an access point, a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (Basic Service Set, BSS), an extended service set (Extended Service Set, ESS), a Node B, an evolved node B (eNB), a home NodeB, a home evolved NodeB, a WLAN access point, a Wi-Fi node, or some other appropriate term in the art. As long as the same technical effect is achieved, the base station is not limited to a specific technical term. It should be noted that the base station in the NR system is taken only as an example in the embodiments of this disclosure, but a specific type of the base station is not limited.

The base station may communicate with the terminal <NUM> under the control of a base station controller. In various examples, the base station controller may be a part of the core network or some base stations. Some base stations may exchange control information or user data with the core network by using backhauls. In some examples, some of these base stations may communicate with each other directly or indirectly by using backhaul links. The backhaul links may be wired or wireless communications links. The wireless communications system may support operations on a plurality of carriers (wave signals of different frequencies). A multi-carrier transmitter can transmit modulated signals on the plurality of carriers simultaneously. For example, multi-carrier signals modulated by using various radio technologies may be transmitted on each communications link. Each modulated signal may be transmitted on different carriers and may carry control information (for example, a reference signal or a control channel), overhead information, data, and the like.

The base station may communicate wirelessly with the terminal <NUM> through one or more access point antennas. Each base station may provide communication coverage for a corresponding coverage area of the base station. A coverage area of an access point may be divided into sectors forming only part of the coverage area. The wireless communications system may include different types of base stations (for example, a macro base station, a micro base station, and a picocell base station). The base station may also use different radio technologies, such as cellular and WLAN radio access technologies. The base station may be associated with a same access network or operator deployment or different access networks or operator deployments. Coverage areas of different base stations (including coverage areas of base stations of a same type or different types, coverage areas using a same radio technology or different radio technologies, or coverage areas of a same access network or different access networks) may overlap each other.

Communication links in the wireless communications system may include an uplink for carrying an uplink (Uplink, UL) transmission (for example, from the terminal <NUM> to the network-side device <NUM>), or a downlink for carrying a downlink (Downlink, DL) transmission (for example, from the network-side device <NUM> to the terminal <NUM>). The UL transmission may also be referred to as reverse link transmission, and the DL transmission may also be referred to as forward link transmission. A licensed band, an unlicensed band, or both may be used for the downlink transmission. Similarly, a licensed band, an unlicensed band, or both may be used for the uplink transmission.

In long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE), a PRS can be transmitted on a resource block of a downlink subframe configured for transmitting the positioning reference signal. The PRS is transmitted through an antenna port <NUM>, the PRS cannot be mapped onto a resource element (RE) allocated to a physical broadcast channel (Physical Broadcast Channel, PBCH), a primary synchronization signal (Primary Synchronization Signal, PSS), or a secondary synchronization signal (Secondary Synchronization Signal, SSS), and the PRS does not overlap with a cell-specific reference signal transmitted through any antenna port. An adjacent cell obtains several subcarrier frequency shifts through a physical cell ID (PCI) modulo <NUM> to avoid PRS overlap.

The PRS is generated and mapped as follows:.

A reference signal sequence rl,ns(m) is defined as <MAT> where ns is a slot number in a radio frame, l is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM) symbol (symbol) number within the slot, and c(i) is a pseudo-random sequence.

The pseudo-random sequence is initialized as <MAT> where <MAT> is generally the same as <MAT> (cell ID), and is configured by using high-layer signaling when there is a high-layer signaling indication. For a normal cyclic prefix (cyclic prefix, CP), <MAT>, and for an extended cyclic prefix, NCP = <NUM>.

A time-frequency resource mapping formula of the reference signal is as follows: <MAT> where for a normal cyclic prefix, <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> and for an extended cyclic prefix, <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where a bandwidth <MAT> (number of RBs in a resource block) for the positioning reference signal is configured by a high layer, and a cell-specific frequency shift is given by <MAT>.

PRS signal mapping in an RB is shown in <FIG> and <FIG>. It can be seen from the figure that the PRS signal is designed based on PRS ID modulo <NUM>. The signal has relatively strong autocorrelation and orthogonality properties. Therefore, it is easier to determine a highest correlation peak when the signal is subjected to correlation detection, and signal interference from neighboring cells is eliminated, which ensures precision of an observed time difference of arrival (Observed Time Difference of Arrival, OTDOA) measurement.

In addition to downlink positioning, uplink positioning is also supported in LTE. Uplink reference signals used for uplink positioning in LTE are sounding reference signals (Sounding Reference Signal, SRS). A location measurement unit (Location Measurement Unit, LMU) located on an eNB side is used for estimating an uplink reference signal reception time difference of the UE to estimate a location of the UE, with no need for the UE to participate in positioning measurement and calculation. To obtain an uplink measurement quantity, the LMU needs to know the characteristics of the SRS signal transmitted by the UE within a required time period for calculating the uplink measurement quantity. These characteristics should be static relative to periodically transmitted SRS signals in uplink measurement. Therefore, the E-SMLC indicates that a serving eNB requires to indicate the UE to transmit an SRS signal for uplink positioning. The eNB makes a final decision on resource allocation and returns this configuration information to the E-SMLC so that the E-SMLC can configure the LMU. The eNB may decide (for example, if no resources are available) to configure zero resources for the UE and report that the zero resources are configured for the E-SMLC.

In new radio (New Radio, NR), a new radio downlink positioning reference signal based on an NR system (NR DL PRS) has been designed. PRSs can be transmitted at a maximum of <NUM> in FR1 and a maximum of <NUM> in FR2. An NR PRS bandwidth configuration is independent of a bandwidth part (Bandwidth part, BWP) configuration. When the PRS bandwidth is greater than the BWP bandwidth the UE can measure a PRS by using a measurement gap (Measurement Gap).

Beamforming can be applied to the PRS, and therefore a concept of PRS resources (resource) is introduced. A PRS resource ID may correspond to one beam at one transmission reception point (Transmission Reception Point, TRP). In addition, to increase audibility of the UE, PRS beam scanning and PRS beam repetition are supported. Moreover, the PRS can be used with reference to an RS of a neighboring cell as a spatial quasi-co-located (Quasi Co-Located, QCL) reference signal.

An interleaved pattern and a flexible pattern configuration can be used for the PRS. A comb (comb) structure of the PRS resource at least may support {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}; and the number of symbols at least may support {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}. Currently, the comb structure has not excluded {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}; and the number of symbols has not excluded {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}.

For uplink positioning, an NR-based SRS is extended.

To enhance a probability of detecting an SRS by a gNB, an SRS comb structure is extended to {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}. In addition, the number of symbols in the SRS resource is increased to {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and other comb structures and symbol quantities are no longer allowed.

To improve flexibility of the SRS, a symbol location occupied by the SRS is extended to any location in a slot.

To improve positioning performance, an SRS pattern is extended to an interleaved pattern, similar to the DL PRS.

To support beamforming and enhance uplink coverage, SRS beam scanning and SRS beam repetition are supported. In addition, the SRS can be used with reference to an RS of a neighboring cell as a QCL reference signal.

With respect to SRS power control, the SRS can be used to calculate pathloss with reference to a pathloss RS of the neighboring cell, to enhance audibility of the neighboring cell.

Further, an RE pattern configuration of the DL PRS includes an RE offset (offset) of the first symbol of a DL PRS resource. In addition, a relative (relative) RE offset is defined for the following symbols. This value is an offset relative to an RE offset of the first symbol in frequency domain. Relative RE offsets of the following symbols should be derived from the configured number of symbols for a DL PRS resource, the comb size for the DL PRS resource, and a symbol index within the DL PRS resource.

In addition, similar conclusions have been reached about UL PRS pattern mapping.

In positioning reference signal resources, except a start symbol, each of the following symbols has a relative RE offset. With the same comb size, arrays or sequences of relative RE offsets with a same length may be configured according to the number of symbols in the positioning reference signal resource, but different arrays or sequences may be configured for different symbol quantities. With the same comb size, a pattern with a greater number of symbols may just repeat a pattern with a smaller number of symbols. If the foregoing method is still used to configure an array or sequence, large overheads are caused.

In addition, in the case shown in <FIG>, how to configure a relative RE offset has not yet reached a decision. In <FIG>, the part filled with dots is the REs of the positioning reference signal resource, the left half in <FIG> is for equivalent comb-<NUM>, and the right half in <FIG> is for equivalent comb-<NUM>.

Further, with the same comb size and the same number of symbols, a plurality of patterns may be supported. How to configure a relative RE offset to support the plurality of patterns has not yet reached a decision.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for mapping a positioning reference signal, a terminal, and a network-side device.

An embodiment of this disclosure provides a method for mapping a positioning reference signal, applied to a terminal, and as shown in <FIG>, including the following steps.

Step <NUM>: Obtain mapping information of a positioning reference signal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource.

Step <NUM>: Determine, based on the mapping information, a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource.

In this embodiment, the terminal obtains mapping information of a positioning reference signal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource; and determines, based on the mapping information, a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. In this way, the terminal can determine, based on the relative resource element offset of each symbol, a resource element location of the positioning reference signal, and transmit the positioning reference signal through the resource element location.

The positioning reference signal may also be referred to as a positioning reference signal resource.

After the determining, based on the mapping information, a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource, the method further includes:.

The mapping information is used for indicating configuration information of one set of relative resource element offsets in a table, and the obtaining mapping information of a positioning reference signal includes:
obtaining a table corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal, where the table includes at least one set of configuration information of relative resource element offsets.

Optionally, the obtaining mapping information of a positioning reference signal further includes:
obtaining indication information transmitted by a network-side device, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal to use configuration information of one of sets of relative resource element offsets in the table as the mapping information of the positioning reference signal.

One set of the configuration information includes <MAT> values indicating relative resource element offsets of the first <MAT> symbols in the positioning reference signal resource, respectively, and the relative resource element offset is an offset relative to a resource element offset of the first symbol.

Optionally, a value of <MAT> is not greater than the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource.

If a value of <MAT> is less than the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource, the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same relative resource element offset as the <MAT>symbol, that is, the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same resource element location as the <MAT> symbol, where l' is greater than or equal to <MAT>, and the <NUM>-th symbol represents a start symbol of the positioning reference signal resource.

Optionally, a value of <MAT> is equal to a comb size of the positioning reference signal resource.

Optionally, obtaining the configuration information includes at least one of the following manners:.

Part of the configuration information may be transmitted by the network-side device, part of the configuration information may be preconfigured, or part of the configuration information may be defined by the protocol; or all the configuration information may be transmitted by the network-side device, or all the configuration information may be preconfigured, or all the configuration information may be defined by the protocol.

Optionally, the mapping information is used for indicating a generation formula used by the terminal for calculating a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal, and the obtaining mapping information of a positioning reference signal includes:
obtaining at least one generation formula of a relative resource element offset corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal, where the generation formula is used for generating a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal. Specifically, the generation formula is used for generating the mapping information of the positioning reference signal, and the mapping information is the relative resource element offset of each symbol.

Optionally, the obtaining mapping information of a positioning reference signal further includes:
obtaining indication information transmitted by a network-side device, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal to generate a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal by using one of the at least one generation formula.

Optionally, a calculation parameter of the generation formula includes at least one of the following:.

Optionally, the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource is not less than X, X is a periodicity of the generation formula or a periodicity of a sequence generated by the generation formula, X is equal to KTC or is one of factors of KTC, and KTC represents a comb size of the positioning reference signal resource.

Optionally, the obtaining the generation formula includes at least one of the following manners:.

Part of the generation formula may be transmitted by the network-side device, part of the generation formula may be preconfigured, or part of the generation formula may be defined by the protocol; or all the generation formula may be transmitted by the network-side device, or all the generation formula may be preconfigured, or all the generation formula may be defined by the protocol.

Optionally, a relative resource element offset of the first symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is <NUM>.

Optionally, the positioning reference signal is a downlink positioning reference signal, and the indication information is carried in long term evolution positioning protocol LPP signaling transmitted by the network-side device.

Optionally, a comb size supported by the downlink positioning reference signal includes at least one of <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, and <NUM>.

Optionally, the positioning reference signal is an uplink positioning reference signal, and the indication information is carried in radio resource control RRC signaling or LPP signaling transmitted by the network-side device.

Optionally, a comb size supported by the uplink positioning reference signal includes at least one of <NUM>, <NUM>, and <NUM>.

An embodiment of this disclosure further provides a method for mapping a positioning reference signal, applied to a network-side device, and as shown in <FIG>, including the following steps.

Step <NUM>: Transmit mapping information of a positioning reference signal to a terminal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource.

In this embodiment, the network-side device transmits mapping information of a positioning reference signal to a terminal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource; and the terminal determines, based on the mapping information, a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. In this way, the terminal can determine, based on the relative resource element offset of each symbol, a resource element location of the positioning reference signal, and transmit the positioning reference signal through the resource element location.

The transmitting mapping information of a positioning reference signal to a terminal includes:
transmitting a table corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal, where the table includes at least one set of configuration information of relative resource element offsets.

Optionally, the transmitting mapping information of a positioning reference signal to a terminal further includes:
transmitting indication information to the terminal, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal to use configuration information of one of sets of relative resource element offsets in the table as the mapping information of the positioning reference signal.

If a value of <MAT> is less than the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource, the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has a same relative resource element offset as the <MAT> symbol, where l' is greater than or equal to <MAT>, and the <NUM>-th symbol represents a start symbol of the positioning reference signal resource.

Optionally, the transmitting mapping information of a positioning reference signal to a terminal includes:
transmitting at least one generation formula of a relative resource element offset corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal to the terminal, where the generation formula is used for generating a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal.

Optionally, the transmitting mapping information of a positioning reference signal to a terminal further includes:
transmitting indication information to the terminal, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal to generate a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal by using one of the at least one generation formula.

The method for mapping a positioning reference signal according to this disclosure are further described below with reference to specific embodiments.

In this embodiment, a table is used to indicate the relative RE offset of the symbol in the positioning reference signal resource to the terminal.

The table may at least include configuration information of one relative RE offset, and the configuration information may be expressed as an array, a sequence, a vector, or a unit. According to a protocol and/or indication from the network-side device, the UE derives a relative RE offset by using specific configuration information in the table. The configuration information may include <MAT> values, which are used to represent relative RE offsets of the first <MAT> symbols in the positioning reference signal resource.

Further, the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource configured by a network side device is not less than <MAT>.

Further, if the number of symbols <MAT> is greater than <MAT>, the UE shall assume that the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same RE location (or relative RE offset) as the <MAT> symbol, where l' is not less than <MAT>, l' = <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the resource, and the <NUM>-th symbol represents a start symbol of the positioning reference signal resource.

Further, the relative RE offset of the first symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is <NUM> by default.

Specifically, the network side may configure one of the following comb structures: For a comb-<NUM> structure, the table corresponding to the relative RE offset is stipulated by the protocol or configured by the network side, as shown below. The table includes only one configuration, that is, configuration <NUM>. Configuration <NUM> includes two values used for indicating relative RE offsets of the first <NUM> <IMG> symbols in the positioning reference signal resource.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that the table corresponding to the relative RE offset includes a plurality of configurations, and the network side indicates one of the configurations to the UE. The configurations in the table are shown below. It can be seen that the table includes at least two of the following configurations, such as configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on.

Alternatively, a table corresponding to the relative RE offset is directly configured by the network side for the UE or stipulated by the protocol. The table includes only one configuration, and a value of the configuration may be one of the following configurations (configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on).

When the value of the configuration is the foregoing configuration <NUM>, the positioning reference signal resource is an equivalent comb-<NUM> structure.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that the table corresponding to the relative RE offset includes a plurality of configurations, and the network side indicates one of the configurations to the UE. The configurations in the table are shown below. It can be seen that the table includes at least two of the following configurations, such as configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on.

Alternatively, a table corresponding to the relative RE offset is directly configured by the network side for the UE or stipulated by the protocol. The table includes only one configuration, and a value of the configuration may include one of the following configurations (configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on).

Configuration <NUM> corresponds to two values, any one of which can be selected.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that the table corresponding to the relative RE offset includes a plurality of configurations, and the network side indicates one of the configurations to the UE. The configurations in the table are shown below. It can be seen that the table includes at least two of the following configurations, such as configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on.

Alternatively, a table corresponding to the relative RE offset is directly configured by the network side for the UE or stipulated by the protocol. The table includes only one configuration, and a value of the configuration may be one of the following configurations (configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on).

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that the table corresponding to the relative RE offset includes a plurality of configurations, and the network side indicates one of the configurations to the UE. The configurations in the table are shown below. It can be seen that the table includes at least two of the following configurations, such as configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on.

Alternatively, a table corresponding to the relative RE offset is directly configured by the network side for the UE or stipulated by the protocol. The table includes only one configuration, and a value of the configuration may be one of the following configurations (configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on).

In this embodiment, a generation formula is used to indicate the relative RE offset of the symbol in the positioning reference signal resource to the terminal.

Specifically, according to the protocol and/or indication from the network side, the UE uses a generation formula to derive a relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. According to the generation formula, the UE may generate the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. The generation formula is associated with a comb structure of the positioning reference signal resource, a symbol index within the resource, and/or the number of symbols in the resource. In the generation formula, l' represents the symbol index within the resource, <MAT>, where <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the positioning reference signal resource, l' = <NUM> represents an index of the start symbol within the positioning reference signal resource, and KTC represents a comb size of the positioning reference signal resource.

Further, the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource configured by the network side is not less than X, where X represents a periodicity of the generation formula (or a periodicity of a sequence generated by the generation formula), which may be equal to KTC or be one of the factors of KTC.

Specifically, the network side may configure one of the following comb structures:.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates a generation formula, such as formula (<NUM>) (there is only one), of the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource: <MAT>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that a generation formula of the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>). Specifically, there are total three generation formulas corresponding to pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, and pattern configuration <NUM>, respectively, as shown below.

Alternatively, the protocol stipulates a plurality of generation formulas, and the network side indicates to use one of the generation formulas. The plurality of generation formulas include at least two of the formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>): <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that a generation formula of the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>). Specifically, there are five generation formulas corresponding to pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, and pattern configuration <NUM>, respectively, as shown below.

Alternatively, the protocol stipulates a plurality of generation formulas, and the network side indicates one of the generation formulas. The plurality of generation formulas include at least two of the formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>): <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that a generation formula of the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>). Specifically, there are seven generation formulas corresponding to pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, and pattern configuration <NUM>, respectively, as shown below.

Alternatively, the protocol stipulates a plurality of generation formulas, and the network side indicates to use one of the formulas. The plurality of generation formulas include at least two of the formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>): <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that a generation formula of the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>). Specifically, there are fifteen generation formulas corresponding to pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, and pattern configuration <NUM>, respectively, as shown below.

Alternatively, the protocol stipulates a plurality of generation formulas, and the network side indicates one of the generation formulas. The plurality of generation formulas include at least two of the formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>): <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

In this embodiment, an array is used to indicate the relative RE offset of the symbol in the positioning reference signal resource to the terminal.

An array (which may also be a sequence or vector) of length of <MAT> is configured by the network side or stipulated by the protocol, and is used to represent relative RE offsets of the first <MAT> symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. According to the array, the UE may generate the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource.

Further, the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource configured by the network side is not less than the length <MAT> of the array.

Further, if the number of symbols <MAT> is greater than <MAT>, the UE shall assume that the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same RE location (or relative RE offset) as the <MAT> symbol, where l' is not less than <MAT>, l' = <MAT>, and <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the positioning reference signal resource.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the array corresponding to the relative RE offset stipulated by the protocol or configured by the network side is {<NUM>,<NUM>}.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates a plurality of array configurations corresponding to the relative RE offsets, and one of the array configurations is indicated by the network side. The array configurations are as follows. The plurality of array configurations include at least two of configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on.

Alternatively, an array corresponding to the relative RE offset is configured by the network side for the UE or stipulated by the protocol. A value of the array may be one of the following configurations (configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on).

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates a plurality of array configurations corresponding to the relative RE offset, and one of the array configurations is indicated by the network side. The array configurations are as follows. The plurality of array configurations include at least two of configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on.

Alternatively, an array corresponding to the relative RE offset is configured by the network side for the UE or stipulated by the protocol. A value of the array may be one of the following configurations (configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on).

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates a plurality of array configurations corresponding to the relative RE offset, and one of the array configurations is indicated by the network side. The array configurations are as follows. The plurality of array configurations include at least two of configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on.

Alternatively, an array corresponding to the relative RE offset is configured by the network side for the UE or stipulated by the protocol. A value of the array may be one of the following configurations (configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on).

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates a plurality of array configurations corresponding to the relative RE offset, and one of the array configurations is indicated by the network side. The array configurations are as follows. The plurality of array configurations include at least two of configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on.

Alternatively, an array corresponding to the relative RE offset is configured by the network side for the UE or stipulated by the protocol. The table includes only one configuration, and a value of the configuration may be one of the following configurations (configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, configuration <NUM>, and so on).

The method for mapping a positioning reference signal according to this disclosure are further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

In this implementation, a symbol index within a positioning reference signal resource may use l' to represent a symbol count starting from the positioning reference signal resource; and l' = <NUM> represents a start symbol of the positioning reference signal resource; <MAT> - <NUM>, where <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the resource.

According to the solutions described in Implementation <NUM> and Implementation <NUM>, the UE may obtain relative RE offsets of the first <MAT> symbols in the positioning reference signal resource.

A relative RE offset corresponding to the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same value as a relative RE offset of a symbol whose index is <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource.

According to the protocol and/or indication from the network side, the UE uses a generation formula to derive a relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. According to the generation formula, the UE may generate the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. The generation formula is associated with a comb structure of the positioning reference signal resource, a symbol index within the resource, and/or the number of symbols in the resource. In the generation formula, l' represents a symbol index within the resource; and <MAT>, where <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the resource, l' = <NUM> represents an index of the start symbol within this resource; and KTC represents a comb size of the resource.

Further, the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource configured by the network side is not less than KTC.

Further, if the number of symbols <MAT> is greater than KTC, the UE shall assume that the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same RE location (or relative RE offset) as the (<NUM>'-KTC)-th symbol, where l' is not less than KTC, <MAT> - <NUM>, <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the resource, and l' = <NUM> represents an index of the start symbol within this resource.

Specifically, the network side may configure one of the following comb structures:
For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates a generation formula, such as formula (<NUM>) (there is only one), of the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource: <MAT>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that a generation formula of the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) and formula (<NUM>).

Alternatively, the protocol stipulates a plurality of generation formulas, and the network side indicates to use one of the generation formulas. The plurality of generation formulas include formula (<NUM>) and formula (<NUM>): <MAT> <MAT>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates that a generation formula of the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>).

Alternatively, the protocol stipulates a plurality of generation formulas, and the network side indicates one of the generation formulas. The plurality of generation formulas include at least two of the formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>): <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

Alternatively, the protocol stipulates a plurality of generation formulas, and the network side indicates to use one of the formulas. The plurality of generation formulas include at least two of the formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>): <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT>.

Alternatively, the protocol stipulates a plurality of generation formulas, and the network side indicates one of the generation formulas. The plurality of generation formulas include at least two of the formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>): <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT>.

This implementation indicates a relative RE offset of the positioning reference signal when an equivalent comb size is not <NUM>. In this case, overheads can be reduced.

According to the protocol and/or indication from the network side, the UE uses a generation formula to derive a relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. According to the generation formula, the UE may generate the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource. The generation formula is associated with a comb structure of the positioning reference signal resource, a symbol index within the resource, and the number of symbols in the resource, l' represents a symbol index within the resource, and l' = <MAT>, where <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the positioning reference signal resource, l' = <NUM> represents an index of the start symbol within the positioning reference signal resource; and KTC represents a comb size of the positioning reference signal resource.

Further, the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource configured by the network side is not less than X, where X represents a periodicity of the generation formula (or a periodicity of a sequence generated by the generation formula), which is one of the factors of KTC.

Further, if the number of symbols <MAT> is greater than X, the UE shall assume that the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same RE location (or relative RE offset) as the (<NUM>'-X)-th symbol, where l' is not less than KTC, <MAT>, <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the positioning reference signal resource, and l' = <NUM> represents an index of the start symbol within the positioning reference signal resource. To be specific, a relative RE offset corresponding to the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same value as a relative RE offset of a symbol whose index is l'mod(X) in the positioning reference signal resource.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates or the network side indicates that a generation formula of a relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is formula (<NUM>), corresponding to pattern configuration <NUM>. In this case, X is <NUM>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates or the network side indicates that a generation formula of a relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) and formula (<NUM>), corresponding to pattern configuration <NUM> and pattern configuration <NUM>. In this case, X is <NUM> and <NUM>, respectively. <MAT> <MAT>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates or the network side indicates that a generation formula of a relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>), corresponding to pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, and pattern configuration <NUM>. In this case, X is <NUM>, <NUM>, and <NUM>, respectively. <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

For a comb-<NUM> structure, the protocol stipulates or the network side indicates that a generation formula of a relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource is one of formula (<NUM>) to formula (<NUM>), corresponding to pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, pattern configuration <NUM>, and pattern configuration <NUM>. In this case, X is <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, and <NUM>, respectively. <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where formula (<NUM>) may be further optimized to the following formula: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

This Implementation <NUM> is applicable to downlink positioning reference signal resources. According to the generation formula (<NUM>) or (<NUM>) or (<NUM>), the UE may generate the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource; and <MAT>, where <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the downlink positioning reference signal resource, l' = <NUM> represents an index of the start symbol within the downlink positioning reference signal resource. <MAT> <MAT> or <MAT> where l' represents a symbol index within the resource, <MAT>, <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the resource, KTC represents a comb size of the resource, and RErelative_offset represents a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal; and l' = <NUM>, represents the relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal.

This Implementation <NUM> is applicable to uplink positioning reference signal resources. According to the generation formula in Implementation <NUM>, the UE may generate the relative RE offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource; and <MAT>, where <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the resource, l' = <NUM> represents an index of the start symbol within this resource.

Specifically, the generation formula includes any one of the following: <MAT> or <MAT> or <MAT> where l' represents a symbol index within the resource, <MAT>, <MAT> represents the number of symbols occupied by the resource, KTC represents a comb size of the resource, and RErelative_offset represents a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal; and l' = <NUM>, represents the relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal.

Alternatively, for different comb sizes, the generation formula is as follows:.

For different comb sizes, the protocol stipulates a generation formula, a configuration in the table, or an array.

The UE selects a corresponding generation formula, configuration in the table, or array according to the comb size configured by the network side.

The solution of using a formula, table, or array is as follows:.

Specifically, for comb-<NUM>, a generation formula stipulated by the protocol is: <MAT>.

For comb-<NUM>, a formula stipulated by the protocol is one of the following: <MAT> <MAT>.

For comb-<NUM>, a generation formula stipulated by the protocol is one of the following: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

For comb-<NUM>, a generation formula stipulated by the protocol is one of the following: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

For comb-<NUM>, a generation formula stipulated by the protocol is one of the following: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT>.

(<NUM>) The protocol stipulates a table, and there are a plurality of configurations in the table, which correspond to relative RE offset configurations for different comb sizes. The UE selects a corresponding relative RE offset configuration according to the comb size configured by the network side, and then derives a relative RE offset of each symbol. The network side may configure one of the following comb structures:.

(<NUM>) For each comb size, an array is stipulated by the protocol. The UE selects a corresponding array according to the comb size configured by the network side, and then derives a relative RE offset of each symbol. The network side may configure one of the following comb structures:.

A comb size supported by the downlink positioning reference signal includes at least one of <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, and <NUM>, and a comb size supported by the uplink positioning reference signal includes at least one of <NUM>, <NUM>, and <NUM>.

For downlink positioning reference signal resources (DL PRS resources), the PRS mapping formula is:.

For configured PRS resources, the UE assumes that a sequence r(m) is mapped to a resource element (k,l)µ: <MAT> where <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where βPRS is a power scaling factor (power scaling factor); KTC is a comb size (comb size) and is determined by PRS frequency density, ρPRS is the PRS frequency density (frequency density), <MAT>; l is a PRS OFDM symbol index within a slot; l<NUM> is a symbol at which a PRS resource starts in the slot; l' is a symbol order counting from the start symbol in the order of PRS OFDM symbols, l' = <NUM>, <MAT> is the number of symbols in the PRS resource; RErelative_offset is a relative offset of a symbol l' relative to a resource element offset of the first symbol in a downlink PRS resource; A is a configuration selected from the table or A is an array, A includes <MAT> numbers, and A may represent a relative resource element offset of the first <MAT> symbols in the downlink PRS resource; k<NUM> is a comb offset of the first symbol in the PRS resource, or is the lowest resource element location of the start symbol in the PRS resource and is associated with a PRS sequence ID <MAT>; and a reference point for k=<NUM> is subcarrier <NUM> in common resource block <NUM>.

Alternatively, the PRS mapping formula is:
For configured PRS resources, the UE assumes that a sequence r(m) is mapped to a resource element (k,l)µ: <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> <MAT> where βPRS is a power scaling factor (power scaling factor); KTC is a comb size (comb size) and is determined by PRS frequency density, PPRS is the PRS frequency density (frequency density), <MAT>; <NUM> is a PRS OFDM symbol index within a slot; l<NUM> is a symbol at which a PRS resource starts in the slot; l' is a symbol order counting from the start symbol in the order of PRS OFDM symbols, l' = <NUM>, <MAT> is the number of symbols in the PRS resource; RErelative_offset is a relative offset of a symbol l' relative to a resource element offset of the first symbol in a downlink PRS resource, and may be generated from a formula; k<NUM> is a comb offset of the first symbol in the PRS resource, or is the lowest resource element location of the start symbol in the PRS resource and is associated with a PRS sequence ID <MAT>; and a reference point for k=<NUM> is subcarrier <NUM> in common resource block <NUM>.

For uplink positioning reference signal resources, that is, SRS resources used for positioning, an SRS mapping formula is:.

Alternatively, the generation formula is <MAT> <MAT> where is <MAT> a comb offset, and represents the lowest resource element location of the first symbol in a resource block; RErelative_offset is a relative offset of a symbol l' relative to a resource element offset of the first symbol in an SRS resource, and may be generated from a formula; and <MAT> represents a symbol order counting from the start symbol of the SRS resource, and for the start symbol of the SRS resource, l' =<NUM>.

For different comb sizes, configurations and patterns of relative RE offsets are shown in <FIG> show PRS signal mapping in an RB.

For comb-<NUM>, a configuration corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are resource elements REs of the positioning reference signal resource.

For comb-<NUM>, configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; and configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource.

For comb-<NUM>, configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; and configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with the dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource.

For comb-<NUM>, configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; and configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource.

For comb-<NUM>, configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource; and configuration <NUM> corresponding to a relative RE offset is {<NUM>, <NUM>}, and as shown in <FIG>, parts filled with dots are REs of the positioning reference signal resource.

As shown in <FIG>, a terminal <NUM> in an embodiment of this disclosure includes an apparatus for mapping a positioning reference signal, and can implement method details in the foregoing embodiment of the method for mapping a positioning reference signal, with the same effects achieved. The terminal <NUM> specifically includes the following functional modules:.

The apparatus further includes:
a processing module, configured to: determine, based on the relative resource element offset of each symbol, a resource element location of the positioning reference signal; and transmit the positioning reference signal through the resource element location.

Optionally, the mapping information is used for indicating configuration information of a set of relative resource element offsets in a table, and the obtaining module <NUM> is configured to obtain a table corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal, where the table includes at least one set of configuration information of relative resource element offsets.

The obtaining module <NUM> is further configured to obtain indication information transmitted by a network-side device, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal to use configuration information of one of sets of relative resource element offsets in the table as the mapping information of the positioning reference signal.

If a value of <MAT> is less than the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource, the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same relative resource element offset as the <MAT> symbol, that is, the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has the same resource element location as the <MAT> symbol, where l' is greater than or equal to <MAT>, and the <NUM>-th symbol represents a start symbol of the positioning reference signal resource.

Optionally, the mapping information is used for indicating a generation formula used by the terminal for calculating a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal, and the obtaining module <NUM> is configured to obtain at least one generation formula of a relative resource element offset corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal, where the generation formula is used for generating a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal.

Optionally, the obtaining module <NUM> is further configured to obtain indication information transmitted by a network-side device, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal to generate a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal by using one of the at least one generation formula.

Optionally, the generation formula includes: <MAT> where l' represents the symbol index within the resource, <MAT>, KTC represents a comb size of the resource, and RErelative_offset represents a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal.

To better achieve the foregoing objective, further, <FIG> is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing each embodiment of this disclosure. The terminal <NUM> includes but is not limited to components such as a radio frequency unit <NUM>, a network module <NUM>, an audio output unit <NUM>, an input unit <NUM>, a sensor <NUM>, a display unit <NUM>, a user input unit <NUM>, an interface unit <NUM>, a memory <NUM>, a processor <NUM>, and a power supply <NUM>. A person skilled in the art can understand that the structure of the terminal shown in <FIG> does not constitute any limitation on the terminal, and the terminal may include more or fewer components than shown in the diagram, or some components may be combined, or the components may be arranged in different manners. In this embodiment of this disclosure, the terminal includes but is not limited to a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, an in-vehicle terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

The processor <NUM> is configured to obtain mapping information of a positioning reference signal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource; and determine, based on the mapping information, a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource.

It should be understood that, in this embodiment of this disclosure, the radio frequency unit <NUM> may be configured to transmit or receive a signal in an information transmitting/receiving or call process. Specifically, the radio frequency unit <NUM> receives downlink data from a base station and transmits the downlink data to the processor <NUM> for processing; and transmits uplink data to the base station. Generally, the radio frequency unit <NUM> includes but is not limited to an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit <NUM> may also communicate with a network and other devices via a wireless communications system.

The terminal provides a user with wireless broadband Internet access by using the network module <NUM>, for example, helping the user to transmit and receive e-mails, browse web pages, and access streaming media.

The audio output unit <NUM> may convert audio data into an audio signal, and output the audio signal as sound, where the audio data is received by the radio frequency unit <NUM> or the network module <NUM>, or stored in the memory <NUM>. In addition, the audio output unit <NUM> may further provide audio output (for example, a call signal received tone or a message received tone) that is related to a specific function performed by the terminal <NUM>. The audio output unit <NUM> includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit <NUM> is configured to receive an audio or video signal. The input unit <NUM> may include a graphics processing unit (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) <NUM> and a microphone <NUM>, and the graphics processing unit <NUM> processes image data of a static picture or a video obtained by an image capture apparatus (for example, a camera) in an image capture mode or a video capture mode. A processed image frame may be displayed on the display unit <NUM>. The image frame processed by the graphics processing unit <NUM> may be stored in the memory <NUM> (or another storage medium) or transmitted by using the radio frequency unit <NUM> or the network module <NUM>. The microphone <NUM> can receive sounds and process such sounds into audio data. The processed audio data can be converted in a telephone call mode into a format that can be transmitted by the radio frequency unit <NUM> to a mobile communication base station, for outputting.

The terminal <NUM> may further include at least one sensor <NUM>, for example, an optical sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the optical sensor may include an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor. The ambient light sensor may adjust luminance of the display panel <NUM> based on brightness of ambient light, and the proximity sensor may turn off the display panel <NUM> and/or backlight when the terminal <NUM> moves close to an ear. As a motion sensor, an accelerometer sensor may detect magnitudes of accelerations in various directions (typically three axes), and in a stationary state, may detect the magnitude and direction of gravity, and may be applied for terminal posture recognition (for example, switching between a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation, related gaming, and magnetometer posture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (for example, pedometer and tapping), and the like. The sensor <NUM> may further include a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, an infrared sensor, and the like.

The display unit <NUM> is configured to display information input by the user or information provided to the user.

The user input unit <NUM> may be configured to receive input digit or character information, and generate a key signal input related to a user setting and function control of the terminal. Specifically, the user input unit <NUM> includes a touch panel <NUM> and other input devices <NUM>. The touch panel <NUM>, or referred to as a touchscreen, may capture a touch operation performed by a user on or near the touch panel <NUM> (for example, an operation performed by the user on the touch panel <NUM> or near the touch panel <NUM> by using any appropriate object or accessory such as a finger or a stylus). The touch panel <NUM> may include two parts: a touch detection apparatus and a touch controller. The touch detection apparatus detects a touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by a touch operation, and transmits the signal to the touch controller. The touch controller receives touch information from the touch detection apparatus, converts the touch information into touchpoint coordinates, transmits the touchpoint coordinates to the processor <NUM>, and receives and executes a command transmitted by the processor <NUM>. In addition, the touch panel <NUM> may be implemented in a plurality of forms, for example, as a resistive, capacitive, infrared, or surface acoustic wave touch panel. In addition to the touch panel <NUM>, the user input unit <NUM> may further include other input devices <NUM>. Specifically, the other input devices <NUM> may include but are not limited to a physical keyboard, a function key (for example, a volume control key or a switch key), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick.

Further, the touch panel <NUM> may cover the display panel <NUM>. After detecting a touch operation on or near the touch panel <NUM>, the touch panel <NUM> transmits the touch operation to the processor <NUM> to determine a type of a touch event. Then the processor <NUM> provides corresponding visual output on the display panel <NUM> based on the type of the touch event. In <FIG>, the touch panel <NUM> and the display panel <NUM> serve as two separate components to implement input and output functions of the terminal. However, in some embodiments, the touch panel <NUM> and the display panel <NUM> may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the terminal. This is not specifically limited herein.

The interface unit <NUM> is an interface between an external apparatus and the terminal <NUM>. For example, the external apparatus may include a wired or wireless headphone port, an external power (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting an apparatus provided with a recognition module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit <NUM> may be configured to receive an input (for example, data information or power) from an external apparatus, and transmit the received input to one or more components in the terminal <NUM>, or may be configured to transmit data between the terminal <NUM> and an external apparatus.

The memory <NUM> may be configured to store software programs and various data. The memory <NUM> may mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area. The program storage area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function (for example, a sound play function and an image play function), and the like. The data storage area may store data created based on use of the mobile phone (for example, audio data and a phone book), and the like. In addition, the memory <NUM> may include a high-speed random access memory, or may further include a non-volatile memory, for example, at least one magnetic disk storage device, a flash memory, or another volatile solid-state storage device.

The processor <NUM> is a control center of the terminal, and is connected to all components of the terminal by using various interfaces and lines. By running or executing a software program and/or a module stored in the memory <NUM> and invoking data stored in the memory <NUM>, the processor <NUM> executes various functions of the terminal and processes data, so as to perform overall monitoring on the terminal. The processor <NUM> may include one or more processing units. Preferably, the processor <NUM> may integrate an application processor and a modem processor. The application processor mainly processes the operating system, a user interface, an application program, and the like. The modem processor mainly processes wireless communication. It can be understood that the modem processor may alternatively be not integrated in the processor <NUM>.

The terminal <NUM> may further include the power supply <NUM> (such as a battery) supplying power to each component. Preferably, the power supply <NUM> may be logically connected to the processor <NUM> by using a power management system, so that functions such as charge and discharge management and power consumption management are implemented by using the power management system.

In addition, the terminal <NUM> includes some functional modules that are not shown.

Preferably, an embodiment of this disclosure further provides a terminal, including a processor <NUM>, a memory <NUM>, and a computer program stored in the memory <NUM> and capable of running on the processor <NUM>. When the computer program is executed by the processor <NUM>, the processes of the foregoing embodiments of the method for mapping a positioning reference signal are implemented, with the same technical effects achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein again. The terminal may be a wireless terminal or a wired terminal. The wireless terminal may be a device providing a user with voice and/or other service data connectivity, a handheld device having a wireless connection function, or another processing device connected to a wireless modem. The wireless terminal may communicate with one or more core networks through a radio access network (Radio Access Network, RAN). The wireless terminal may be a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone (also referred to as a "cellular" phone) or a computer having a mobile terminal, for example, may be a portable, pocket-sized, handheld, computer built-in, or in-vehicle mobile apparatus, which exchanges voice and/or data with the radio access network. For example, it may be a device such as a personal communication service (Personal Communication Service, PCS) phone, a cordless telephone set, a session initiation protocol (Session Initiation Protocol, SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (Wireless Local Loop, WLL) station, or a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA). The wireless terminal may also be referred to as a system, a subscriber unit (Subscriber Unit), a subscriber station (Subscriber Station), a mobile station (Mobile Station), a mobile terminal (Mobile), a remote station (Remote Station), a remote terminal (Remote Terminal), an access terminal (Access Terminal), a user terminal (User Terminal), a user agent (User Agent), or a user device (User Device or User Equipment). This is not limited herein.

An embodiment of this disclosure further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored in the computer-readable storage medium. When the computer program is executed by a processor, the processes of the foregoing embodiments of the method for mapping a positioning reference signal are implemented, with the same technical effects achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein again. For example, the computer-readable storage medium is a read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, ROM), a random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.

As shown in <FIG>, a network-side device <NUM> in an embodiment of this disclosure includes an apparatus for mapping a positioning reference signal, and can implement method details in the foregoing embodiment of the method for mapping a positioning reference signal, with the same effects achieved. The network-side device <NUM> specifically includes the following functional modules:
a transmitting module <NUM>, configured to transmit mapping information of a positioning reference signal to a terminal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource.

The transmitting module <NUM> is configured to transmit a table corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal, where the table includes at least one set of configuration information of relative resource element offsets.

Optionally, the transmitting module <NUM> is further configured to transmit indication information to the terminal, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal to use configuration information of one of sets of relative resource element offsets in the table as the mapping information of the positioning reference signal.

Optionally, the transmitting module <NUM> is configured to transmit at least one generation formula of a relative resource element offset corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal to the terminal, where the generation formula is used for generating a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal.

Optionally, the transmitting module <NUM> is further configured to transmit indication information to the terminal, where the indication information is used for indicating the terminal to generate a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal by using one of the at least one generation formula.

It should be noted that, it should be understood that division of modules of the network-side device and the terminal is merely logical function division. The modules may be all or partially integrated in a physical entity or may be separated physically in an actual implementation. In addition, the modules may be all implemented in a form of software invoked by a processing component, or may be all implemented in a form of hardware; or a part of modules may be implemented in a form of software invoked by a processing component, and another part of modules may be implemented in a form of hardware. For example, a determining module may be a processing component that is separately disposed, or may be integrated in a chip of the apparatus for implementation. In addition, the determining module may be stored in the memory of the apparatus in a form of program code, and is invoked by a processing component of the apparatus to perform a function of the determining module. Implementation of other modules is similar to this. In addition, all or some of the modules may be integrated, or may be implemented independently. Herein, the processing component may be an integrated circuit, and has a signal processing capability. In an implementation process, the steps in the foregoing method or the foregoing modules may be implemented by using an integrated logic circuit of hardware of the processor component or by using instructions in a form of software.

For example, the modules above may be one or more integrated circuits configured to implement the foregoing method, for example, one or more application-specific integrated circuits (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), or one or more microprocessors (digital signal processor, DSP), or one or more field programmable gate arrays (Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA). For another example, when one of the foregoing modules is implemented in a form of program code invoked by a processing component, the processing component may be a general-purpose processor, for example, a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU) or another processor that may invoke program code. For another example, the modules may be integrated in a form of a system-on-a-chip (system-on-a-chip, SOC) for implementation.

To better achieve the foregoing objective, an embodiment of this disclosure further provides a network-side device. The network-side device includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, where when the processor executes the computer program, the steps of the foregoing method for mapping a positioning reference signal are implemented, with the same technical effects achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein again.

An embodiment of this disclosure further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored in the computer readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the foregoing method for mapping a positioning reference signal applied in the network-side device are implemented, with the same technical effects achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not described herein again.

Specifically, an embodiment of this disclosure further provides a network-side device. As shown in <FIG>, the network-side device <NUM> includes an antenna <NUM>, a radio frequency apparatus <NUM>, and a baseband apparatus <NUM>. The antenna <NUM> is connected to the radio frequency apparatus <NUM>. In an uplink direction, the radio frequency apparatus <NUM> receives information by using the antenna <NUM>, and transmits the received information to the baseband apparatus <NUM> for processing. In a downlink direction, the baseband apparatus <NUM> processes to-be-transmitted information, and transmits the information to the radio frequency apparatus <NUM>; and the radio frequency apparatus <NUM> processes the received information and then transmits the information by using the antenna <NUM>.

A band processing apparatus may be located in the baseband apparatus <NUM>. The method performed by the network-side device in the foregoing embodiment may be implemented by the baseband apparatus <NUM>, and the baseband apparatus <NUM> includes a processor <NUM> and a memory <NUM>.

The baseband apparatus <NUM> may include, for example, at least one baseband processing unit, where a plurality of chips are disposed on the baseband processing unit. As shown in <FIG>, one of the chips is, for example, the processor <NUM>, and connected to the memory <NUM>, to invoke the program in the memory <NUM> to perform the operations of the network-side device shown in the foregoing method embodiment.

The baseband apparatus <NUM> may further include a network interface <NUM>, configured to exchange information with the radio frequency apparatus <NUM>, where the interface is, for example, a common public radio interface (common public radio interface, CPRI).

The processor herein may be one processor, or may be a collective term for a plurality of processing components. For example, the processor may be a CPU, or may be an ASIC, or may be one or more integrated circuits configured to implement the method performed by the network-side device, for example, one or more microprocessors DSPs, or one or more field programmable gate arrays FPGAs. A storage component may be a memory, or may be a collective term for a plurality of storage components.

The memory <NUM> may be a volatile memory or a non-volatile memory, or may include a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be a read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, ROM), a programmable read-only memory (Programmable ROM, PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (Erasable PROM, EPROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (Electrically EPROM, EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be a random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), which is used as an external cache. By way of example but not restrictive description, many forms of RAMs may be used, for example, a static random access memory (Static RAM, SRAM), a dynamic random access memory (Dynamic RAM, DRAM), a synchronous dynamic random access memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), a double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (Double Data Rate SDRAM, DDRSDRAM), an enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (Enhanced SDRAM, ESDRAM), a synchronous link dynamic random access memory (Synchlink DRAM, SLDRAM), and a direct rambus random access memory (Direct Rambus RAM, DRRAM). The memory <NUM> described in this application is intended to include but is not limited to these and any other suitable types of memories.

Specifically, the network-side device in this embodiment of this disclosure further includes a computer program stored in the memory <NUM> and capable of running on the processor <NUM>. The processor <NUM> invokes the computer program in the memory <NUM> to perform the method performed by the modules shown in <FIG>.

Specifically, the computer program, when invoked by the processor <NUM>, may be used to obtain mapping information of a positioning reference signal, where the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource.

Persons of ordinary skill in the art may be aware that the units and algorithm steps in the examples described with reference to the embodiments disclosed in this specification can be implemented by electronic hardware or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Persons skilled in the art may use different methods to implement the described functions for each particular application, but it should not be considered that the implementation goes beyond the scope of this disclosure.

It may be clearly understood by persons skilled in the art that, for the purpose of convenient and brief description, for a detailed working process of the foregoing system, apparatus, and unit, reference may be made to a corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiments, and details are not described herein again.

In the embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other manners. For example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be ignored or may not be performed. The indirect couplings or communication connections between the apparatuses or units may be implemented in electrical, mechanical, or other forms.

When the functions are implemented in a form of a software functional unit and sold or used as an independent product, the functions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such an understanding, the technical solutions of this disclosure essentially, or the part contributing to the related art, or some of the technical solutions may be implemented in a form of a software product. The software product is stored in a storage medium, and includes several instructions for instructing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network-side device) to perform all or some of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of this disclosure. The foregoing storage medium includes: any medium that can store program code, such as a USB flash drive, a removable hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.

In addition, it should be noted that in the apparatus and method of this disclosure, apparently, the components or steps may be decomposed and/or recombined. The decomposition and/or recombination should be considered as an equivalent solution of this disclosure. In addition, steps for performing the foregoing series of processing may be naturally performed in a sequence of description and in a time sequence, but do not need to be performed necessarily in the time sequence, and some steps may be performed in parallel or independently. Persons of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or any steps or components of the method and apparatus in this disclosure may be implemented by hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof in any computing apparatus (including a processor, a storage medium, and the like) or a network of computing apparatuses. This can be implemented as long as persons of ordinary skill in the art apply basic programming skill after reading the specification of this disclosure.

Therefore, the objective of this disclosure may also be achieved by running a program or a group of programs on any computing apparatus. The computing apparatus may be a well-known general apparatus. Therefore, the objective of this disclosure may also be achieved by merely providing a program product including program code for implementing the method or apparatus. Therefore, such program product also constitutes this disclosure, and a storage medium storing such program product also constitutes this disclosure. Apparently, the storage medium may be any storage medium of common sense or any storage medium that will be developed in the future. It should also be noted that in the apparatus and method of this disclosure, apparently, the components or steps may be decomposed and/or recombined. The decomposition and/or recombination should be considered as an equivalent solution of this disclosure. In addition, steps for performing the foregoing series of processing may be naturally performed in time sequence following the order of description, but are not necessarily performed in time sequence. Some steps may be performed in parallel or separate from each other.

Claim 1:
A method for mapping a positioning reference signal, performed by a terminal and comprising:
obtaining (<NUM>) mapping information of a positioning reference signal, wherein the mapping information indicates relative resource element offsets of at least some symbols in a positioning reference signal resource;
determining (<NUM>), based on the mapping information, a relative resource element offset of each symbol in the positioning reference signal resource;
determining, based on the relative resource element offset of each symbol, a resource element location of the positioning reference signal; and
transmitting the positioning reference signal through the resource element location;
wherein the obtaining (<NUM>) mapping information of a positioning reference signal comprises:
obtaining a table corresponding to a comb structure of the positioning reference signal, wherein the table comprises at least one set of configuration information of relative resource element offsets;
wherein the at least one set of the configuration information comprises <MAT> values indicating relative resource element offsets of the first <MAT> symbols in the positioning reference signal resource, respectively, and the relative resource element offset is an offset relative to a resource element offset of the first symbol;
and wherein, if a value of <MAT> is less than the number of symbols <MAT> in the positioning reference signal resource, the l'-th symbol in the positioning reference signal resource has a same relative resource element offset as the ( <MAT>)-th symbol, wherein l' is greater than or equal to <MAT>, and the <NUM>-th symbol represents a start symbol of the positioning reference signal resource.