USER DEVICES, NETWORK COMPONENTS, AND METHODS OF OPERATING USER DEVICES AND NETWORK COMPONENTS

Abstract

The invention refers to user equipment (UE), network components, and the operating methods of the UE and network components. In one aspect, the network component (e.g., BS, LMF, etc.) determines the ability of the UE to perform frequency hopping at the receiver to measure the downlink positioning reference signal (DLPRS) over multiple hopping steps. The DL-PRS is transmitted over multiple orthogonal trequity division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols on the same transmission bandwidth (e.g., without hopping), and each of the many frequency hopping steps relates to a subband of the DL-PRS transmission table and configures one or more UE positioning-related parameters based at least in part on this capability. In some designs, the UE can send capability information to network components to aid in identification, while in other designs, network components can determine capability through a different mechanism.