Patent Description:
The disclosure relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for obtaining uplink channel state information.

In the <NUM> New Radio (<NUM> NR) system, for the Type II codebook, the reciprocity of the angle information and delay information of an uplink channel and a downlink channel is used, that is, the angle information of the uplink channel may be used as the angle information of the downlink channel, and the delay information of the uplink channel may be used as the delay information of the downlink channel. The port selection codebook and the enhanced port selection codebook are respectively defined, so as to assist the network side device to select an appropriate precoding matrix.

Specifically, the network side device configures corresponding Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources for the terminal, and the terminal sends an SRS to the network side device based on the SRS resource configuration, so that the network side device can determine the uplink channel information through the SRS sent by the terminal, and then obtain the angle information and delay information according to uplink channel information, where the angle information is used to characterize the sending angle of the signal, and the delay information is used to characterize the time required by the signal from the sender to the receiver.

At present, referring to <FIG>, the SRS resources configured for the terminal on the network side are as follows.

In the time domain, one SRS resource may be sent on N consecutive Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, where the value of N is <NUM>, <NUM> or <NUM>. Referring to <FIG>, the SRS resource A occupies <NUM> OFDM symbol, the SRS resource B occupies <NUM> OFDM symbols, and the SRS resource C occupies <NUM> OFDM symbols.

In the frequency domain, one SRS resource has a comb-like (Comb) structure, that is, one SRS resource is not mapped on consecutive subcarriers. The Comb structure can be represented by the Comb parameter of which the value is <NUM> or <NUM>, where the value of the Comb parameter being <NUM> indicates that one SRS resource is mapped at a spacing of one subcarrier, as shown by the SRS resource A and SRS resource B in <FIG>, and the value of the Comb parameter being <NUM> indicates that one SRS resource is mapped at a spacing of three subcarriers, as shown by the SRS resource C in <FIG>.

It is assumed that the delay vector pointing to the mth transmission path on a certain OFDM symbol modulated and transmitted based on OFDM is expressed as: <MAT> where ηU represents the frequency interval of the uplink channel (that is, the interval of subcarriers, Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) or uplink sub-bands), τm represents the delay of the mth transmission path, <MAT> represents the number of Resource Elements (REs) occupied by the SRS sent on a sub-band or PRB of the uplink channel, and j represents an imaginary number.

After the network side determines the uplink channel information through the SRS sent by the terminal, the delay vector of the mth transmission path of the uplink channel may be represented by a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) basis vector in the frequency domain, where the DFT basis vector is: <MAT> where <MAT> represents an index in all candidate DFT basis vectors in the frequency domain.

When the formula (<NUM>) approaches the formula (<NUM>) infinitely, <MAT> can be known from the formulas (<NUM>) and (<NUM>). At this time: <MAT>.

As can be seen from the formula (<NUM>), the delay information of the transmission path is related to ηU and <MAT>. When the value of <MAT> is larger, the network side device can capture the transmission path with a smaller delay.

Obviously, if the network side device uses the existing SRS resource configuration method to configure the SRS resources for the terminal, the frequency interval of the Comb structure is small, that is, ηU is small, so the transmission path with the smaller delay cannot be captured, and thus the more accurate channel delay information cannot be obtained.

In order to capture the transmission path with the smaller delay, the terminal needs to send the SRS on a larger bandwidth, that is, the value of <MAT> is increased, so that the terminal needs to send the SRS on more frequency domain resources. However, due to the power limitation of the terminal, it is impossible for the terminal to simultaneously send the SRS on more subcarriers, PRBs or sub-bands when performing the uplink transmission. In particular, for an edge terminal, it is usually necessary to send the SRS on a smaller bandwidth, such as some sub-bands, to increase the uplink coverage.

It can be seen that a new solution needs to be designed to overcome the above-mentioned defects.

The International Patent Publication No. <CIT> relates a method for sending and receiving a reference signal, a network device, a terminal device and a system. The method, the network device, the terminal device and the system are applicable to SRS resource configuration in NR. The method comprises the steps that: the terminal device sends an SRS according to the position of a starting subcarrier transmitting the sounding reference signal SRS; wherein the position of the starting subcarrier transmitting the SRS is determined by the offset of a sounding region, the offset of the sounding region indicates the amount of resource that the starting subcarrier of the sounding region offsets relative to the starting subcarrier of a bandwidth portion BWP of the terminal device, and the sounding region is a resource for transmitting the SRS.

The United States Patent Publication No. <CIT> relates a reference signal transmission method and apparatus, including a base station divides a transmission bandwidth into a plurality of frequency domain units, and sends reference signal sending configuration information to a terminal. The terminal transmits a reference signal on one or more frequency domain units. The one or more frequency domain units and another frequency domain unit form a part of the transmission bandwidth supported by the base station. The terminal sends the reference signal on the one or more frequency domain units to the base station based on the reference signal sending configuration information.

The United States Patent Publication No. <CIT> relates a method for uplink transmission and reception in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for performing uplink transmission by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration information form a base station, in which the SRS resource configuration information includes SRS resource information and association configuration information between a first SRS and a second SRS that is a target of the SRS resource configuration information; and transmitting precoded the second SRS to the base station on an SRS resource indicated by the SRS resource information, and the second SRS may be transmitted based on the precoding applied to the first SRS indicated by the association configuration information.

The disclosure provides a method and apparatus for obtaining uplink channel state information from SRS transmissions.

The scope of the invention is defined and limited by the appended set of independent claims. Further embodiments are set out by the appended dependent claims.

In order to illustrate the technical solutions in embodiments of the disclosure or in the prior art more clearly, the accompanying figures which need to be used in describing embodiments or the prior art will be introduced below briefly. Obviously, the accompanying figures described below are merely some embodiments of the invention, and other accompanying figures can also be obtained by those ordinary skilled in the art according to these accompanying figures without creative labor.

In the NR system, in order to obtain a transmission path with a smaller delay to thereby design a port selection codebook with higher precision, in embodiments of the disclosure, the network side device configures at least one SRS resource for the terminal based on a preset bandwidth parameter, a preset frequency domain density parameter and a preset time domain parameters, and then measures an uplink channel based on at least one SRS to determine the uplink channel state information when receiving at least one SRS transmitted by the terminal using the at least one SRS resource.

The preferred embodiments of the disclosure will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to <FIG>, a process of obtaining the uplink channel state information in an embodiment of the disclosure is as follows.

S201: a network side device determines the SRS resource configuration information based on a preset bandwidth parameter, a preset frequency domain density parameter and a preset time domain parameter when determining to obtain the uplink channel state information.

It should be noted that, in some embodiments of the disclosure, the uplink channel state information includes any one or a combination of angle information or delay information, where the angle information is used to characterize a signal emission angle and a signal arrival angle, and the delay information is used to characterize the time required for a signal to be sent from the terminal to the network side device.

In some embodiments of the disclosure, the network side device includes but is not limited to a base station, a micro cell, etc. In the following, only the base station is taken as an example for description.

The network side device determines to obtain the uplink channel state information when there are but not limited to the following cases.

Case <NUM>: the network side device determines to obtain the uplink channel state information when determining to schedule the uplink data transmission of the terminal based on a service request sent by the terminal.

For example, the base station determines to obtain the angle information and delay information when determining to schedule the uplink data transmission of the terminal based on a service request sent by the terminal.

Case <NUM>: the network side device determines to obtain the uplink channel state information when determining the precoding matrix for the downlink data transmission based on a service request sent by the terminal.

For example, the base station determines to obtain the angle information and delay information when determining the precoding matrix for the downlink data transmission based on a service request sent by the terminal.

When determining to obtain the uplink channel state information, the network side device may configure the SRS resources by using, but not limited to, the following steps.

The network side device determines a bandwidth configuration of at least one SRS resource based on the preset bandwidth parameter.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the preset bandwidth parameter may be determined according to the maximum allowable uplink scheduled Bandwidth Part (BWP) or may be determined according to the downlink scheduled BWP, where the value of the preset bandwidth parameter is an integer multiple of <NUM>, and the preset bandwidth parameter is not greater than the maximum value of the downlink scheduled BWP when the preset bandwidth parameter is determined according to the downlink scheduled BWP.

For example, it is assumed that the preset bandwidth parameter is determined according to the maximum allowed uplink scheduled BWP, which is <NUM> PRBs. The base station determines the bandwidth configuration of the SRS resource <NUM> as CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM> based on the maximum allowed uplink scheduled BWP, where CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM> indicate that the bandwidth of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM> PRBs, and the SRS resource <NUM> is sent in the non-frequency hopping manner.

For another example, it is assumed that the preset bandwidth parameter is determined according to the downlink scheduled BWP, which is <NUM> PRBs. The base station configures the bandwidth of the SRS resource <NUM> as CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM> based on the downlink scheduled BWP, where CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM> indicate that the bandwidth of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM> PRBs, and the SRS resource <NUM> is sent in the frequency hopping manner.

The network side device determines the frequency domain density of at least one SRS resource based on the preset frequency domain density parameter.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the preset frequency domain density parameter may be determined according to the frequency domain density of a downlink Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS), or may be determined according to the sub-band size of a Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI).

In some embodiments, when the preset frequency domain density parameter is determined according to the sub-band size of the PMI, the sub-band size of the Channel Quality Indication (CQI) is <MAT>, and the sub-band size of the PMI is <MAT>, then the network side device determines the frequency domain density k of at least one SRS resource as <MAT> based on the preset frequency domain density parameter, where R represents the number of PMIs corresponding to a CQI sub-band during downlink data transmission, and <MAT> represents the number of PRBs included in a CQI sub-band.

For example, it is assumed that the preset frequency domain density parameter is determined according to the frequency domain density of the CSI-RS, which is <NUM>. 25RE/Resource Block (RB)/PORT. The base station determines the frequency domain density of the SRS resource <NUM> as <NUM>. 25RE/RB/PORT based on the frequency domain density of the CSI-RS.

For another example, it is assumed that the preset frequency domain density parameter is determined according to the sub-band size of the PMI, where the sub-band size <MAT> of the CQI is <NUM> PRBs, and the value of R is <NUM>. At this time, the sub-band size <MAT> of the PMI is <NUM>. Then, the base station determines the frequency domain density k of the SRS resource <NUM> as <NUM> RE/RB/PORT based on the sub-band sizes of the CQI and the PMI.

The network side device determines a time domain parameter N corresponding to at least one SRS resource based on the type of a service request or the uplink channel quality information of a known terminal.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, when the value of N is greater than <NUM>, the terminal is instructed to send the at least one SRS in the frequency hopping manner on N OFDM symbols within one slot or across different slots; when the value of N is equal to <NUM>, the terminal is instructed to send the at least one SRS in the frequency hopping manner across different slots.

For example, the base station determines the value of the time domain parameter N of the SRS resource <NUM> as <NUM> based on the type of the service request. The schematic diagram of the frequency domain density of the SRS resource <NUM> is shown in <FIG>, when the value of N is <NUM>, the terminal is instructed to send the SRS1 in the frequency hopping manner across different slots.

For another example, the base station determines the value of the time domain parameter N of the SRS resource <NUM> as <NUM> based on the uplink channel quality information of the known terminal. The schematic diagram of the frequency domain density of the SRS resource <NUM> is shown in <FIG>, when the value of N is <NUM>, the terminal is instructed to send the SRS1 in the frequency hopping manner on <NUM> OFDM symbols in a slot.

The network side device determines the SRS resource configuration information of at least one SRS resource based on the bandwidth configuration, the frequency domain density and the time domain parameter N.

For example, the base station determines the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> of the SRS resource <NUM> based on the bandwidth configuration of <NUM> PRBs, the frequency domain density of <NUM> RE/RB/PORT, and the time domain parameter N=<NUM>.

For another example, the base station determines the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> of the SRS resource <NUM> based on the bandwidth configuration of <NUM> PRBs, the frequency domain density of <NUM> RE/RB/PORT, and the time domain parameter N=<NUM>.

It should be noted that, in some embodiments of the disclosure, it is also necessary to determine a period configuration corresponding to at least one SRS resource based on the preset time domain characteristics when determining the SRS resource configuration information of at least one SRS resource, where the period configuration is used to indicate that the SRS is sent in a periodic, semi-persistent or aperiodic manner.

For example, the base station determines the period configuration <NUM> of the SRS resource <NUM> based on the preset time domain characteristics, where the period configuration <NUM> indicates that the SRS1 is sent in an aperiodic manner.

It should be noted that, in some embodiments of the disclosure, at least one SRS resource corresponding to the SRS resource configuration information may be included in a same SRS resource set or in different SRS resource sets, which is not limited in the disclosure.

S202: the network side device sends the SRS resource configuration information to a terminal, and receives at least one SRS reported by the terminal based on the SRS resource configuration information.

For example, the base station sends the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> and SRS resource configuration information <NUM> to the terminal, and receives the SRS1 and SRS2 reported by the terminal based on the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> and SRS resource configuration information <NUM>.

S203: the network side device measures an uplink channel used by the terminal based on at least one SRS, and determines the corresponding uplink channel state information.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the uplink channel state information may be determined in but not limited to two following ways.

In the first way: determine the uplink channel state information in a one-step way.

The network side device generates at least one uplink channel information corresponding to the at least one SRS by measuring the uplink channel used by the terminal based on at least one SRS.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the disclosure, the uplink channel information includes, but is not limited to, angle information, delay information, Doppler shift information, uplink channel signal amplitude, phase information, and other information. Since all the above-mentioned information is encapsulated in the uplink channel information, the uplink channel information needs to be further processed to obtain various information such as angle information and delay information.

For example, the base station measures the uplink channel used by the terminal based on the SRS1 and SRS2, and generates the uplink channel information <NUM> corresponding to the SRS1 and the uplink channel information <NUM> corresponding to the SRS2.

The network side device determines a spatial domain basis vector and a frequency domain basis vector based on at least one uplink channel information.

For example, the base station determines the spatial domain basis vector <NUM> based on the uplink channel information <NUM>, and determines the frequency domain basis vector <NUM> based on the uplink channel information <NUM>.

The network side device determines the angle information and delay information of the uplink channel based on the spatial domain basis vector and the frequency domain basis vector.

For example, the base station determines the angle information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on the spatial domain basis vector <NUM>, and determines the delay information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on the frequency domain basis vector <NUM>.

It should be noted that, in some embodiments of the disclosure, when the uplink channel state information is determined in the one-step manner, the steps B1, B2, and B3 are one step, and the step is broken down for clarity of description in the disclosure.

In the second way: determine the uplink channel state information in a two-step way.

The network side device generates at least one uplink channel information corresponding to the at least one SRS by measuring the uplink channel used by the terminal based on at least one SRS.

The network side device determines X spatial domain basis vectors based on the first uplink channel information included in the at least one uplink channel information, and determines the angle information of the uplink channel based on the X spatial domain basis vectors.

For example, the base station determines <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM> based on the uplink channel information <NUM>, and determines the angle information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on the <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM>.

The network side device takes the X spatial domain basis vectors as beams of a CSI-RS, and sends a beam-forming CSI-RS to the terminal through X ports so that the terminal selects L ports from the X ports.

For example, the base station takes <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM> as beams of the CSI-RS, and sends the beam-forming CSI-RS to the terminal through <NUM> ports, so that the terminal selects <NUM> ports from the <NUM> ports.

The network side device receives the port indication information indicating the L ports returned by the terminal, and determines M frequency domain basis vectors based on the L ports and the second uplink channel information included in the at least one uplink channel information.

For example, the base station receives the port indication information that is returned by the terminal and that characterizes <NUM> ports selected by the terminal, and determines <NUM> frequency domain basis vectors <NUM> based on the <NUM> ports and the uplink channel information <NUM>.

The network side device determines the corresponding delay information based on the M frequency domain basis vectors.

For example, the base station determines the delay information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on <NUM> frequency domain basis vectors <NUM>.

It should be noted that, in some embodiments of the disclosure, the parameters such as R, N, <MAT>, X, L and M may be pre-configured by the network side device for the terminal, or may be pre-defined by the network side device and the terminal, or may be reported by the terminal, which is not limited in the disclosure, wherein the values of R, N, <MAT>, X, L and M are integers.

It should be noted that, in some embodiments of the disclosure, when the uplink channel state information is determined in the two-step manner, the steps C1, C2, and C3 are the first step, and the steps C4 and C5 are the second step. Each step of operation is broken down for clarity of description in the disclosure.

Next, taking the case that the network side device configures one SRS resource for the terminal as an example, the first way for the network side device to determine the uplink channel state information will be illustrated.

It is assumed that the downlink scheduled BWP is <NUM> PRBs, the sub-band size <MAT> of the CQI is <NUM> PRBs, and the value of R is <NUM>. When determining to obtain the uplink channel state information, the network side device determines that the bandwidth configuration of the SRS resource <NUM> is CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM> based on the downlink scheduled BWP, where CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM> indicates that the bandwidth of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM> PRBs and the SRS resource <NUM> is sent in the non-frequency hopping manner. Then, the network side device determines that the frequency domain density k of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM> RE/RB/PORT based on the sub-band size of the PMI, and determines that the value of the time domain parameter N of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM> based on the uplink channel quality information of the known terminal. Next, the network side device determines the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> of the SRS resource <NUM> based on the bandwidth configuration, the frequency domain density k and the time domain parameter N.

The network side device sends the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> to the terminal, and receives the SRS3 reported by the terminal based on the SRS resource configuration information <NUM>.

The network side device measures the uplink channel used by the terminal based on the SRS3, and generates the uplink channel information <NUM> corresponding to the SRS3. Then, the network side device determines the spatial domain basis vector <NUM> and the frequency domain basis vector <NUM> based on the uplink channel information <NUM>, and determines the angle information <NUM> and the delay information <NUM> of the uplink channel respectively based on the spatial domain basis vector <NUM> and the frequency domain basis vector <NUM>.

Next, still taking the case that the network side device configures one SRS resource for the terminal as an example, the second way for the network side device to determine the uplink channel state information will be illustrated.

It is assumed that the downlink scheduled BWP is <NUM> PRBs. When determining to obtain the uplink channel state information, the network side device determines the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> of the SRS resource <NUM>, where the bandwidth configuration of the SRS resource <NUM> is CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM>, the frequency domain density k of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM> RE/RB/PORT, and the value of the time domain parameter N of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM>. Since the specific process of determining the bandwidth configuration, the frequency domain density k and the time domain parameter N of the SRS3 resource is the same as that in the above, which will not be repeated here.

The network side device measures the uplink channel used by the terminal based on the SRS3, and generates the uplink channel information <NUM> corresponding to the SRS3. Then, the network side device determines <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM> based on the uplink channel information <NUM>, and determines the angle information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on the <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM>. Next, the network side device takes the <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM> as beams of the CSI-RS, and sends a beam-forming CSI-RS to the terminal through <NUM> ports, so that the terminal selects <NUM> ports from the <NUM> ports. The network side device receives the port indication information that is returned by the terminal and that characterizes <NUM> ports selected by the terminal, and determines <NUM> frequency domain basis vectors <NUM> based on the <NUM> ports and the uplink channel information <NUM>. After that, the network side device determines the delay information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on the <NUM> frequency domain basis vectors <NUM>.

Next, taking the case that the network side device configures two SRS resources for the terminal as an example, the first way for the network side device to determine the uplink channel state information will be illustrated, where the resource configuration method in the prior art is used for one SRS resource, and the resource configuration method provided in the disclosure is used for the other SRS resource.

It is assumed that the downlink scheduled BWP is <NUM> PRBs. When determining to obtain the uplink channel state information, the network side device firstly configures the bandwidth of the SRS resource <NUM> as CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM> and sets the value of the Comb parameter as <NUM> based on the resource configuration method in the prior art, where CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM> indicates that the bandwidth of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM> PRBs and the SRS resource <NUM> is sent in the non-frequency hopping manner, and the value of the Comb parameter being <NUM> indicates that SRS resource <NUM> is transmitted at every other subcarrier in the frequency domain. Then, the network side device determines the resource configuration information <NUM> of the SRS resource <NUM> based on the bandwidth configuration of the SRS resource <NUM> and the value of the Comb parameter. At the same time, the network side device determines the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> of the SRS resource <NUM> based on the downlink scheduled BWP, the sub-band size of the PMI and the uplink channel quality information of the known terminal, where the bandwidth configuration of the SRS resource <NUM> is CSRS=<NUM> and BSRS=<NUM>, the frequency domain density k of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM> RE/RB/PORT, and the value of the time domain parameter N of the SRS resource <NUM> is <NUM>. Since the specific process of determining the bandwidth configuration, the frequency domain density k and the time domain parameter N of the SRS3 resource is the same as that in the above, which will not be repeated here.

The network side device sends the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> and SRS resource configuration information <NUM> to the terminal, and receives the SRS3 and SRS4 reported by the terminal based on the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> and SRS resource configuration information <NUM>.

The network side device measures the uplink channel used by the terminal based on the SRS3 and SRS4, and generates the uplink channel information <NUM> corresponding to the SRS <NUM> and the uplink channel information <NUM> corresponding to the SRS4. Then, the network side device determines the spatial domain basis vector <NUM> based on the uplink channel information <NUM>, and determines the frequency domain basis vector <NUM> based on the uplink channel information <NUM>. Then, the network side device determines the angle information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on the spatial domain basis vector <NUM>, and determines the delay information of the uplink channel based on the frequency domain basis vector <NUM>.

Next, taking the case that the network side device configures two SRS resources for the terminal as an example, the second way for the network side device to determine the uplink channel state information will be illustrated, where the resource configuration method in the prior art is used for one SRS resource, and the resource configuration method provided in the disclosure is used for the other SRS resource.

The network side device sends the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> and SRS resource configuration information <NUM> to the terminal, and receives the SRS3 and SRS4 returned by the terminal based on the SRS resource configuration information <NUM> and SRS resource configuration information <NUM>.

The network side device measures the uplink channel used by the terminal based on the SRS3 and SRS4, and generates the uplink channel information <NUM> corresponding to the SRS3 and the uplink channel information <NUM> corresponding to the SRS4. Then, the network side device determines <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM> based on the uplink channel information <NUM>, and determines the angle information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on the <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM>. Next, the network side device takes the <NUM> spatial domain basis vectors <NUM> as beams of the CSI-RS, and sends a beam-forming CSI-RS to the terminal through <NUM> ports, so that the terminal selects <NUM> ports from the <NUM> ports. The network side device receives the port indication information that is returned by the terminal and that characterizes <NUM> ports selected by the terminal, and determines <NUM> frequency domain basis vectors <NUM> based on the <NUM> ports and the uplink channel information <NUM>. After that, the network side device determines the delay information <NUM> of the uplink channel based on the <NUM> frequency domain basis vectors <NUM>.

Based on the same inventive concept, referring to <FIG>, an embodiment of the disclosure provides an apparatus for obtaining uplink channel state information, including at least:.

In some embodiments, the uplink channel state information includes angle information and/or delay information, where the angle information is used to characterize a signal emission angle and a signal arrival angle, and the delay information is used to characterize the time required for a signal to be sent from the terminal to the network side device.

In some embodiments, the preset bandwidth parameter is determined according to a maximum allowed uplink scheduled BWP or downlink scheduled BWP, and the preset frequency domain density parameter is determined according to a frequency domain density of a downlink CSI-RS or a sub-band size of a PMI, where a value of the preset bandwidth parameter is an integer multiple of <NUM>, and the preset bandwidth parameter is not greater than a maximum value of the downlink scheduled BWP when the preset bandwidth parameter is determined according to the downlink scheduled BWP.

In some embodiments, when determining the SRS resource configuration information based on the preset bandwidth parameter, the preset frequency domain density parameter and the preset time domain parameter, the processor <NUM> is specifically configured to:.

In some embodiments, when measuring the uplink channel used by the terminal based on the at least one SRS and determining the corresponding uplink channel state information, the processor <NUM> is specifically configured to:.

Here, in <FIG>, the bus architecture may include any numbers of interconnected buses and bridges, and specifically link various circuits of one or more processors represented by the processor <NUM> and the memory represented by the memory <NUM>. The bus architecture may further link various other circuits such as peripheral device, voltage regulator and power management circuit, which are all well known in the art and thus will not be further described again herein. The bus interface provides an interface. The transceiver <NUM> may be a plurality of elements, i.e., include a transmitter and a receiver, and provide the units for communicating with various other devices over the transmission media. The processor <NUM> is responsible for managing the bus architecture and general processing, and the memory <NUM> may store the data used by the processor <NUM> when performing the operations.

Based on the same inventive concept, an embodiment of the disclosure provides an apparatus for obtaining uplink channel state information, as shown in <FIG>, which at least includes: a configuration unit <NUM>, a sending unit <NUM> and a processing unit <NUM>;.

The configuration unit <NUM>, the sending unit <NUM> and the processing unit <NUM> cooperate with each other to realize the functions of the apparatus for obtaining the uplink channel state information in the above embodiments.

Based on the same inventive concept, an embodiment of the disclosure provides a storage medium, where the instructions in the storage medium, when executed by a processor, enable the processor to perform any method implemented by the apparatus for obtaining the uplink channel state information in the above process.

To sum up, in some embodiments of the disclosure, the network side device generates the SRS resource configuration information based on the preset bandwidth parameter, the preset frequency domain density parameter and the preset time domain parameter, and then the network side device measures the uplink channel used by the terminal based on at least one SRS returned by the terminal, and determines the corresponding uplink channel state information. In this way, the SRS resource configuration information is generated through the frequency domain density parameter. The frequency domain density of the SRS resource can be adjusted, that is, the frequency domain density of the SRS resource can be reduced. Since the frequency domain density is reduced, the signal to interference plus noise ratio of each SRS RE can be improved compared with the existing SRS resource allocation method, thereby increasing the coverage of the SRS. At the same time, the bandwidth of SRS resource configuration can be increased through the bandwidth parameter, so that the network side device can capture the transmission paths with different delays, thereby designing a port selection codebook with higher precision.

For the system/apparatus embodiments, they are substantially similar to the method embodiments, so the description thereof is relatively simple, and the related parts may refer to the partial illustration of the method embodiments.

It should be noted that the relational terms such as first and second herein are only used to distinguish one entity or operation from another and do not necessarily require or imply any such actual relationship or sequence between these entities or operations.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the embodiments of the disclosure can be provided as methods, systems and computer program products. Thus the disclosure can take the form of hardware embodiments alone, software embodiments alone, or embodiments combining the software and hardware aspects. Also the disclosure can take the form of computer program products implemented on one or more computer usable storage mediums (including but not limited to magnetic disk memories, CD-ROMs, optical memories and the like) containing computer usable program codes therein.

The disclosure is described by reference to the flow charts and/or the block diagrams of the methods, the devices (systems) and the computer program products according to the embodiments of the disclosure. It should be understood that each process and/or block in the flow charts and/or the block diagrams, and a combination of processes and/or blocks in the flow charts and/or the block diagrams can be implemented by the computer program instructions. These computer program instructions can be provided to a general-purpose computer, a dedicated computer, an embedded processor, or a processor of another programmable data processing device to produce a machine, so that an apparatus for implementing the functions specified in one or more processes of the flow charts and/or one or more blocks of the block diagrams is produced by the instructions executed by the computer or the processor of another programmable data processing device.

Claim 1:
A method for obtaining uplink channel state information, comprising:
determining (S201), by a network side device, Sounding Reference Signal, SRS, resource configuration information based on a preset bandwidth parameter, a preset frequency domain density parameter and a preset time domain parameter, in a case that the network side device determines to obtain the uplink channel state information;
sending (S202), by the network side device, the SRS resource configuration information to a terminal;
receiving, by the network side device, at least one SRS reported by the terminal based on the SRS resource configuration information; and
measuring (S203), by the network side device, an uplink channel used by the terminal based on the at least one SRS, and determining the corresponding uplink channel state information;
wherein, the determining, by the network side device, the SRS resource configuration information based on the preset bandwidth parameter, the preset frequency domain density parameter and the preset time domain parameter, further comprises:
determining, by the network side device, a bandwidth configuration of at least one SRS resource based on the preset bandwidth parameter;
determining, by the network side device, a frequency domain density of the at least one SRS resource based on the preset frequency domain density parameter;
wherein the method is characterised by: determining, by the network side device, a time domain parameter N corresponding to the at least one SRS resource based on a type of a service request or uplink channel quality information of a known terminal; and
determining, by the network side device, the SRS resource configuration information of the at least one SRS resource based on the bandwidth configuration, the frequency domain density and the time domain parameter N;
wherein the terminal is instructed to send the at least one SRS in a frequency hopping manner on N Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, symbols within one slot in response to a value of N being greater than <NUM>; and e terminal is instructed to send the at least one SRS in a frequency hopping manner across different slots in response to a value of N being equal to <NUM>.