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Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Huaisong Zhu, Beijing, CN;

Yanyan Zhu, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1268 (2023.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04L 5/0051 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure proposes a method, a network element, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium of scheduling a UL RS resource for an MU-MIMO enabled UE. The method is performed at a network element to schedule a UL RS resource for an MU-MIMO enabled UE. The method comprises: determining whether channel status information for the UE is known or not; assigning a first RS resource from a first RS group to the UE in response to determining that the channel status information for the UE is unknown and that the first RS resource is not assigned to any other UE; and assigning a second RS resource from a second RS group to the UE in response to determining that the channel status information for the UE is known.


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