Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secondary positioning reference signals for non-terrestrial networks in 5G new radio
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Application No.: US17793524Application Date: 2020-02-07
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Publication No.: US12117537B2Publication Date: 2024-10-15
- Inventor: Jun Ma , Xiao Feng Wang , Qiang Wu , Huilin Xu , Dan Zhang , Iyab Issam Sakhnini , Yiqing Cao
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP/Qualcomm
- International Application: PCT/CN2020/074513 2020.02.07
- International Announcement: WO2021/155578A 2021.08.12
- Date entered country: 2022-07-18
- Main IPC: G01S19/25
- IPC: G01S19/25 ; G01S5/10 ; H04W64/00 ; H04W84/06

Abstract:
Satellites in a non-terrestrial network may provide positioning reference signals (PRS) to user equipment (UE), with which the UE may determine its position using propagation delay difference measurements, such as Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) measurement. Due to the large distances between satellites and the UE, the propagation delay differences in the PRS received from satellites may exceed half a radio frame, resulting in a frame level timing ambiguity in the differential measurements. The satellites transmit secondary PRS, along with primary PRS, that include timing information to resolve frame level timing ambiguity of the primary PRS. The positioning occasions in the secondary PRS, for example, may be aligned with corresponding positioning occasions primary PRS within each radio frame, and are transmitted with a periodicity that is an integer multiple (greater than 1) of that of the primary PRS to resolve the frame level timing ambiguity of the primary PRS.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230051054A1 SECONDARY POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNALS FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS IN 5G NEW RADIO Public/Granted day:2023-02-16
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