Patent ID: 8824391

Claim:
A method of transmitting sounding reference signals, which are transmitted to a base station using a plurality of component carriers at a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving offset values of a plurality of component carriers from the base station, the offset values corresponding to subframes in which the sounding reference signals are transmitted; and transmitting the sounding reference signals to the base station using the plurality of component carriers in the subframes corresponding to the offset values of the plurality of component carriers, wherein, if the sounding reference signals are transmitted using at least two component carriers in the same subframe, a specific sounding reference signal having a longest sounding reference signal transmission period is only transmitted using one component carrier corresponding to the specific sounding reference signal among the at least two component carriers, wherein a remainder of the sounding reference signals being transmitted that are not the specific sounding reference signal having the longest sounding reference signal transmission period are delayed, and wherein sounding reference signal transmission periods for the plurality of component carriers are different from each other.