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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Kaushik Josiam, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Rakesh Taori, McKinney, TX (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A method includes configuring a first sounding channel to be an uplink sounding slot. The uplink sounding slot has at least one OFDM symbol in an uplink sub-frame in order to carry UL-SRSs corresponding to at least one transmit beam of a first set of transmit beams in a first sounding channel set of sub-bands. The first sounding channel set of sub-bands includes sub-bands that cover a first data bandwidth. The method includes transmitting, to an MS, a first UL sounding configuration message that sets a sounding sub-band bitmap value to a maximum specifiable value and indicates UL-SRS placement in the first sounding channel set of sub-bands. The method includes, receiving through the first sounding channel set of sub-bands from the MS, the UL-SRSs corresponding to at least the one transmit beam of the first set of transmit beams for channel estimation over the first data bandwidth.