Methods and arrangements in a telecommunication system
AssigneeIDTP Holdings, Inc.
InventorsMuhammad Kazmi, Bengt Lindoff, Walter Müller, Iana Siomina
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and a device for supporting positioning with a minimum of assistance data signalling. The method in the radio device that shall perform the positioning measurements comprises determining (440) a positioning reference signal pattern, based on a cell identity and a pre-defined mapping between the cell identity and the positioning reference signal pattern, and performing (450) positioning measurements based on the determined positioning reference signal pattern.
Claims20
A method of supporting positioning by a radio device in a cellular network, wherein the radio device is configured to communicate with a radio base station of the cellular network, the method comprising:
- detecting one or more cell identities;
- performing cell measurements based on the detected cell identities;
- transmitting a result from the cell measurements and the detected cell identities to the network node, in order for the network node to determine whether to transmit a neighbor cell list to the radio device;
- determining whether to use the detected cell identities or to use cell identities received in a neighbor cell list from a network node for determining positioning reference signal patterns, based on the cell measurements;
- for at least one cell identity, determining a positioning reference signal pattern, based on the cell identity and a pre-defined mapping between the cell identity and the positioning reference signal pattern;
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- performing positioning measurements based on the determined positioning reference signal pattern.
A radio device configured to support positioning in a cellular network and to communicate with a radio base station of the cellular network, the radio device comprising:
- a pattern determining unit adapted to determine a positioning reference signal pattern, based on a cell identity and a pre-defined mapping between the cell identity and the positioning reference signal pattern;
- a positioning measurement unit adapted to perform positioning measurements based on the determined positioning reference signal pattern;
- a detecting unit adapted to detect at least one cell identity;
- a cell measurement unit adapted to perform cell measurements based on said detected cell identities;
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- a determining unit adapted to determine whether to use said detected cell identities or to use cell identities received in a neighbor cell list from a network node for determining the positioning reference signal patterns, based on the cell measurements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.