SRS Resource Set Power Control for Multi-Area Wireless Sensing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication systems lack efficient mechanisms for configuring and transmitting sounding reference signals (SRS) towards multiple sensing areas with varying transmission powers, especially in complex environments with diverse target objects such as unmanned aerial vehicles and humans, leading to interference and suboptimal sensing performance.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method for configuring multiple sounding reference signal resource sets with associated transmission power control parameters, allowing for precise transmission of SRSs towards different sensing areas, including those dedicated for target objects like UAVs and humans, using open and closed loop transmission power control frameworks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple sounding reference signals are transmitted towards multiple sensing areas, then sensing coverage and capability are improved, but transmission power management becomes complex and interference increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesensing coverageVSAvoidtransmission power management
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the sounding reference signal resources into multiple resource sets, where each resource set is dedicated to a specific sensing area or target object type. This segmentation allows independent power control for each resource set, simplifying the overall power management complexity while maintaining comprehensive sensing coverage across multiple areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local quality by configuring different transmission power control parameters for different sounding reference signal resource sets. Each resource set can have its own power control settings optimized for specific sensing requirements, target objects, or interference conditions in particular areas, rather than using a uniform power control approach system-wide.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If transmission power is increased for better sensing accuracy, then measurement precision improves, but interference to other areas and target objects increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesensing accuracyVSAvoidinterference
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

By dividing the sounding reference signal resources into separate resource sets for different sensing areas and target objects, the patent enables targeted power transmission. Each resource set can transmit at optimized power levels for its specific purpose without unnecessarily increasing interference to other areas, thus maintaining measurement precision while reducing harmful interference.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality through area-specific power control parameters that allow each sensing area to receive appropriate transmission power for accurate measurement. This localized power optimization ensures that power is increased only where needed for sensing accuracy, rather than uniformly across all areas, thereby minimizing interference generation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Measurement precision

If separate resource sets are configured for different target objects, then sensing specificity and accuracy improve, but configuration complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesensing specificityVSAvoidconfiguration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal power control framework that can be applied across multiple sounding reference signal resource sets. The same power control mechanism and parameter structure are reused for each resource set, allowing the system to achieve high sensing specificity for different target objects while avoiding proportional increases in configuration complexity through standardized multi-functional power control procedures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP4593474A1Apparatus, method, and computer program
Publication Date: 2025.07.30 NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
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AI summary

The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising: means for receiving first configuration information for configuring at least one sounding reference signal resource set for transmitting at least one sounding reference signal towards at least one sensing area, wherein the first configuration information indicates at least one transmission power control parameter set for determining at least one transmission power for transmitting the at least one sounding reference signal towards the at least one sensing area on the at least one sounding reference signal resource set; means for configuring the at least one sounding reference signal resource set based on the first configuration information; and means for transmitting the at least one sounding reference signal towards the at least one sensing area on the at least one sounding reference signal resource set