Indication of uplink resource muting via sounding reference signal

An apparatus comprising a processing system, the processing system comprising one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the processing system configured to cause a network entity to:

• send a configuration for a set of sounding reference signal (SRS) sets, the configuration comprising an indication of one or more SRS resources configured for at least one SRS set of the set of SRS sets;
• send a grant for transmission of an uplink shared channel message;
• and
• obtain the uplink shared channel message based at least in part on the grant, the uplink shared channel message comprising one or more muted resources that correspond to the one or more SRS resources based at least in part on the configuration.

A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) comprising:

• obtaining a configuration for a set of sounding reference signal (SRS) sets, the configuration comprising an indication of one or more SRS resources configured for at least one SRS set of the set of SRS sets;
• obtaining a grant for transmission of an uplink shared channel message;
• and
• sending the uplink shared channel message based at least in part on the grant, the uplink shared channel message comprising one or more muted resources that correspond to the one or more SRS resources based at least in part on the configuration.