Round Trip Time Estimation Utilizing Cyclic Shift of Uplink Reference Signal
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| author | Gangula, Rajeev Melodia, Tommaso Mundlamuri, Rakesh Kaltenberger, Florian |
| author_facet | Gangula, Rajeev Melodia, Tommaso Mundlamuri, Rakesh Kaltenberger, Florian |
| contents | In the context of fifth-generation new radio (5G NR) technology, it is not possible to directly obtain an absolute uplink (UL) channel impulse response (CIR) at the base station (gNB) from a user equipment (UE). The UL CIR obtained through the sounding reference signal (SRS) is always time-shifted by the timing advance (TA) applied at the UE. The TA is crucial for maintaining UL synchronization, and transmitting SRS without applying the TA will result in interference. In this work, we propose a new method to obtain absolute UL CIR from a UE and then use it to estimate the round trip time (RTT) at the gNB. This method requires enhancing the current 5G protocol stack with a new Zadoff-Chu (ZC) based wideband uplink reference signal (URS). Capitalizing on the cyclic shift property of the URS sequence, we can obtain the RTT with a significant reduction in overhead and latency compared to existing schemes. The proposed method is experimentally validated using a real-world testbed based on OpenAirInterface (OAI). |
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| spellingShingle | Round Trip Time Estimation Utilizing Cyclic Shift of Uplink Reference Signal Gangula, Rajeev Melodia, Tommaso Mundlamuri, Rakesh Kaltenberger, Florian Information Theory Signal Processing In the context of fifth-generation new radio (5G NR) technology, it is not possible to directly obtain an absolute uplink (UL) channel impulse response (CIR) at the base station (gNB) from a user equipment (UE). The UL CIR obtained through the sounding reference signal (SRS) is always time-shifted by the timing advance (TA) applied at the UE. The TA is crucial for maintaining UL synchronization, and transmitting SRS without applying the TA will result in interference. In this work, we propose a new method to obtain absolute UL CIR from a UE and then use it to estimate the round trip time (RTT) at the gNB. This method requires enhancing the current 5G protocol stack with a new Zadoff-Chu (ZC) based wideband uplink reference signal (URS). Capitalizing on the cyclic shift property of the URS sequence, we can obtain the RTT with a significant reduction in overhead and latency compared to existing schemes. The proposed method is experimentally validated using a real-world testbed based on OpenAirInterface (OAI). |
| title | Round Trip Time Estimation Utilizing Cyclic Shift of Uplink Reference Signal |
| topic | Information Theory Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04528 |