Methods and devices for locating user devices

Abstract

The invention relates to methods and instruments for locating user equipment, specifically techniques for selecting measurement interval stages for locating user equipment (UE) in 5G NR. Examples of user-defined positioning methods include receiving positioning assistance data associated with one or more frequency classes from the network, determining measurement interval information for one or more frequency bands associated with one or more frequency classes, determining the number of available positioning reference signals for each of one or more frequency bands based on positioning assistance data and measurement interval information, and measuring one or more positioning reference signals for the selected frequency band. In this method, the selection of the band size is based on the number of available reference signals (vj) within the measurement range, and the calculation of position information is based at least in part on one or more measurements of the reference signal vj.