Positioning SRS Transmissions During a Discontinuous Reception Cycle

A method, comprising:

• at a base station of a network acting as a serving node for a user equipment (UE), the UE being a target UE in a positioning method initiated by the network:
• comparing discontinuous reception (DRX) timing information for a DRX cycle of the UE with positioning sounding reference signal (SRS) timing information for an SRS configuration of the UE;
• determining whether the positioning SRS is located within an inactive time of the DRX cycle;
• and
• when the positioning SRS is located within the inactive time of the DRX cycle, modifying one of the DRX cycle or the SRS configuration.

A base station of a network acting as a serving node for a user equipment (UE), the UE being a target UE in a positioning method initiated by the network, comprising:

• one or more processors configured to:
• transmit, to a location management function (LMF) of the network, first information including discontinuous reception (DRX) timing information for indicating a DRX active time and a DRX inactive time in a DRX cycle of the UE;
• and
• transmit, to the LMF of the network, measurement gap (MG) timing information for the UE.

A user equipment, comprising:

• one or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:
• storing a configuration related to positioning sounding reference signals (SRS);
• and
• transmitting positioning SRS according to the configuration information.