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Title:
POSITIONING MODEL BASED ON MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION POINT AND/OR MULTIPLE BANDWIDTH CONFIGURATIONS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2024/059377
Kind Code:
A4
Abstract:
In an aspect, a method performed by a network node includes obtaining a plurality of radio frequency fingerprint positioning (RFFP) measurements associated with known positioning parameters associated with a known location of a user equipment (UE), wherein each RFFP measurement of the plurality of RFFP measurements is further associated with a transmission point configuration of a plurality of transmission point configurations (1702); and training a positioning model to provide an estimate of one or more positioning parameters associated with a location of the UE, wherein the training of the positioning model is based on the plurality of RFFP measurements, known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of transmission point configurations (1704).

Inventors:
HIRZALLAH MOHAMMED ALI MOHAMMED (US)
ZHANG XIAOXIA (US)
ZORGUI MARWEN (US)
YERRAMALLI SRINIVAS (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2023/071203
Publication Date:
May 10, 2024
Filing Date:
July 28, 2023
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Assignee:
QUALCOMM INC (US)
International Classes:
G01S5/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
OLDS, Mark, E. (US)
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Claims:
AMENDED CLAIMS received by the International Bureau on 08 March 2024 (08.03.2024)

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a network node, comprising: obtaining a plurality of channel response measurements associated with known positioning parameters associated with a known location of a user equipment (UE), wherein each channel response measurement of the plurality of channel response measurements is further associated with a transmission point configuration of a plurality of transmission point configurations; and training a positioning model to provide an estimate of one or more positioning parameters associated with a location of the UE, wherein the training of the positioning model is based on the plurality of channel response measurements, known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of transmission point configurations.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein: the known positioning parameters associated with the known location comprise: one or more known positioning coordinates associated with the known location; one or more known positioning measurements associated with the known location; or any combination thereof; and the estimate of the one or more positioning parameters comprises: an estimate of one or more positioning coordinates associated with the location of the UE; an estimate of one or more known positioning measurements associated with the location of the UE; or any combination thereof.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) the plurality of channel response measurements, the known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of transmission point configurations are used for batch training of the positioning model in which the positioning model is trained offline using the plurality of channel response measurements, the known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of transmission point configurations; the plurality of channel response measurements, the known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of transmission point configurations are used for online training of the positioning model in which the positioning model is trained incrementally using individual channel response measurements obtained in a generally continuous manner from one or more UEs during online training operations; or any combination thereof; the method further comprising: transmitting assistance data to the UE at the known location indicating one or more transmission point configurations of the plurality of transmission point configurations for measurement by the UE, the one or more transmission point configurations to be measured by the UE to obtain the plurality of channel response measurements, a number of samples associated with the known location to be obtained by the UE for each of the one or more transmission point configurations, one or more training configurations of the positioning model to be used by the UE to obtain the plurality of channel response measurements, or any combination thereof; and receiving the plurality of channel response measurements associated with the one or more transmission point configurations from the UE to obtain the plurality of channel response measurements associated with the known location for the online training of the positioning model.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of transmission point configurations comprises:

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) 108 different sets of one or more TRPs; different antenna configurations associated with the different sets of the one or more TRPs; or any combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of transmission point configurations is indicated by: primary cell identifiers of TRPs in the different sets of one or more TRPs; a number of TRPs in each set of the different sets of one or more TRPs; antenna port identifiers for antennas in the different antenna configurations associated with the different sets of the one or more TRPs; a number of antennas used in each set of the different sets of the one or more TRPs; or any combination thereof.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: assigning one or more configuration identifiers to each transmission point configuration of the plurality of transmission point configurations; and training the positioning model based on the one or more configuration identifiers and corresponding channel response measurements of the plurality of channel response measurements.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein: the one or more configuration identifiers are one-hot identifiers.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising: assigning weight values to the plurality of channel response measurements, wherein the weighted values are assigned based on a one-hot max error in which a channel response measurement associated with a highest training error among other channel response measurements sharing a same known locations is assigned a weighted value of 1 and other channel response measurements sharing the same known location are assigned a weighted value of 0, and wherein: the weight value associated with an channel response measurement of the plurality of channel response measurements is based on

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) 109 a number of TRPs in a transmission point configuration associated with the channel response measurement, a number of antennas in the transmission point configuration associated with the channel response measurement, or any combination thereof; and training the positioning model based, at least in part, on a weighted loss function using the weighted values.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising: obtaining a further plurality of channel response measurements respectively associated with each known location of a further set of known locations of the user equipment (UE), wherein each channel response measurement of the plurality of channel response measurements is further associated with a further transmission point configuration of a further plurality of transmission point configurations; and further training the positioning model to provide the estimate of the one or more positioning parameters associated with the location of the UE, wherein the further training is based on the further plurality of channel response measurements, known positioning parameters associated with each known location of the further set of known locations, and the further plurality of transmission point configurations.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the network node comprises: a UE; a base station; a location server; a model management server; or any combination thereof.

11. A method performed by a network node, comprising: obtaining a plurality of channel response measurements associated a known location of a user equipment (UE), wherein each channel response measurement of the plurality of channel response measurements is further associated with a bandwidth configuration of a plurality of bandwidth configurations; and training a positioning model to provide an estimate of one or more positioning parameters associated with a location of the UE, wherein the training of the positioning

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) model is based on the plurality of channel response measurements, known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of bandwidth configurations.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein: the known positioning parameters associated with the known location comprise: one or more known positioning coordinates associated with the known location; one or more known positioning measurements associated with the known location; or any combination thereof; and the estimate of the one or more positioning parameters comprises an estimate of one or more positioning coordinates associated with the location of the UE; an estimate of one or more known positioning measurements associated with the location of the UE; or any combination thereof.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein: the plurality of channel response measurements, the known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of bandwidth configurations are used for batch training of the positioning model; the plurality of channel response measurements, the known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of bandwidth configurations are used for online training of the positioning model in which the positioning model is trained incrementally using individual channel response measurements obtained in a generally continuous manner from one or more UEs during online training operations; or any combination thereof.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein: the plurality of channel response measurements, the known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of bandwidth configurations are used for online training of the positioning model in which the

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) positioning model is trained incrementally using individual channel response measurements obtained in a generally continuous manner from one or more UEs during online training operations.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising: transmitting assistance data to a UE at the known location indicating one or more bandwidth configurations of the plurality of bandwidth configurations for measurement by the UE; and receiving the plurality of channel response measurements associated with the one or more bandwidth configurations from the UE to obtain the plurality of channel response measurements associated with the known location for the online training of the positioning model.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein: the assistance data further indicates: the one or more bandwidth configurations to be measured by the UE to obtain the plurality of channel response measurements, a number of samples associated with the known location to be obtained by the UE for each of the one or more bandwidth configurations, one or more training configurations of the positioning model to be used by the UE to obtain the plurality of channel response measurements, or any combination thereof.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein each bandwidth configuration is indicated by: a number of resource elements associated with the bandwidth configuration; a number of resource blocks associated with the bandwidth configuration; a frequency bandwidth associated with the bandwidth configuration; or any combination thereof.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising: assigning one or more configuration identifiers to each bandwidth configuration; and training the positioning model based on the one or more configuration identifiers.

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) 112

19. The method of claim 18, wherein: the one or more configuration identifiers are one-hot identifiers.

20. The method of claim 11, further comprising: assigning weight values to the plurality of channel response measurements, wherein the weighted values are assigned based on a one-hot max error in which an RFFP measurement associated with a highest training error among other channel response measurements sharing a same known locations is assigned a weighted value of 1 and other channel response measurements sharing the same known location are assigned a weighted value of 0, and wherein the weight value associated with a channel response measurement of the plurality of channel response measurements is based on: a number of resource elements in a bandwidth configuration associated with the channel response measurement, a number of resource blocks in the bandwidth configuration associated with the channel response measurement, a frequency bandwidth associated of the bandwidth configuration associated with the channel response measurement, or any combination thereof; and training the positioning model based, at least in part, on a weighted loss function using the weight values.

21. The method of claim 11, further comprising: obtaining a further plurality of channel response measurements respectively associated with each location of a further set of known locations of the UE, wherein each channel response measurement of the further plurality of channel response measurements is further associated with a further bandwidth configuration of a further plurality of bandwidth configurations; and training the positioning model to provide an estimate of one or more positioning parameters of the location of the UE based on the further plurality of channel response measurements, the known positioning parameters associated with each known location of the set of known locations, and the further plurality of bandwidth configurations.

22. The method of claim 11, wherein the network node comprises: a UE;

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) 113 a base station; a location server; a model management server; or any combination thereof.

23. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving assistance data indicating a transmission point configuration of a plurality of transmission point configurations, wherein the transmission point configuration is associated with a first set of network devices for measurement by the UE to obtain a first set of channel response measurements for a positioning occasion; and obtaining a position estimate of a location of the UE based on applying a positioning model to the first set of channel response measurements and one or more indicators corresponding to the transmission point configuration of the first set of network devices.

24. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving assistance data indicating a bandwidth configuration to be used by the UE to obtain a first set of channel response measurements; and obtaining a position estimate of a location of the UE based on applying a positioning model to the first set of channel response measurements and one or more indicators corresponding to the bandwidth configuration.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the bandwidth configuration is indicated by: a number of resource elements associated with the bandwidth configuration; a number of resource blocks associated with the bandwidth configuration; a frequency bandwidth associated with the bandwidth configuration; or any combination thereof.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein: the bandwidth configuration is indicated by one or more configuration identifiers associated with the bandwidth configuration.

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) 114

27. The method of claim 26, wherein: the one or more configuration identifiers are one-hot identifiers.

28. A network node, comprising: a memory; at least one transceiver; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the at least one transceiver, the at least one processor configured to: obtain a plurality of channel response measurements associated with known positioning parameters associated with a known location of a user equipment (UE), wherein each channel response measurement of the plurality of channel response measurements is further associated with a transmission point configuration of a plurality of transmission point configurations; and train a positioning model to provide an estimate of one or more positioning parameters associated with a location of the UE, wherein the training of the positioning model is based on the plurality of channel response measurements, known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of transmission point configurations.

29. A network node, comprising: a memory; at least one transceiver; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the at least one transceiver, the at least one processor configured to: obtain a plurality of channel response measurements associated a known location of a user equipment (UE), wherein each channel response measurement of the plurality of channel response measurements is further associated with a bandwidth configuration of a plurality of bandwidth configurations; and train a positioning model to provide an estimate of one or more positioning parameters associated with a location of the UE, wherein the training of the positioning model is based on the plurality of channel response measurements, known positioning parameters associated with the known location, and the plurality of bandwidth configurations.

AMENDED SHEET (ARTICLE 19) 115

30. A user equipment (UE), comprising: a memory; at least one transceiver; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the at least one transceiver, the at least one processor configured to: receive, via the at least one transceiver, assistance data indicating a transmission point configuration of a plurality of transmission point configurations, wherein the transmission point configuration is associated with a first set of network devices for measurement by the UE to obtain a first set of channel response measurements for a positioning occasion; and obtain a position estimate of a location of the UE based on applying a positioning model to the first set of channel response measurements and one or more indicators corresponding to the transmission point configuration of the first set of network devices.

31. A user equipment (UE), comprising: a memory; at least one transceiver; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the at least one transceiver, the at least one processor configured to: receive, via the at least one transceiver, assistance data indicating a bandwidth configuration to be used by the UE to obtain a first set of channel response measurements; and obtain a position estimate of a location of the UE based on applying a positioning model to the first set of channel response measurements and one or more indicators corresponding to the bandwidth configuration.

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