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What is sounding reference signal in LTE and What happens if disabled it?

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What is sounding reference signal in LTE and What happens if disabled it?
posted Sep 2, 2015 by Gnanendra Reddy

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Sounding Reference Signal i.e. SRS is a reference signal transmitted by the UE in the uplink direction which is used by the eNodeB to estimate the uplink channel quality over a wider bandwidth. The eNodeB may use this information for uplink frequency selective scheduling.

The eNodeB can also use SRS for uplink timing estimation as part of timing alignment procedure, particularly in situations like there are no PUSCH/PUCCH transmissions occurring in the uplink for a long time in which case, the eNodeB relies on SRS for uplink timing estimation.

There are largely two kinds of SRS, Common SRS and Dedicated SRS. Common SRS is also called Cell Specific SRS and Dedicated SRS is also called UE Specific SRS.

Now coming to your second part why we need this kind of signal (I believe this is what you want to ask)?
In LTE eNodeB often allocates only a partial section of full system bandwidth for a specific UE and at a specific time. So it would be good to know which section across the overall bandwidth has better channel quality comparing to the other region. In this case, Network can allocate the specific frequency region which is the best for each of the UEs. (If we always have to use full bandwidth, we may not need this kind of reference signal since there is no choice even when there is a better or worse spots within the bandwidth).

answer Sep 2, 2015 by Salil Agrawal
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SRS is an uplink signal which is transmitted by the UE. The eNodeB can use this signal to do channel estimation on Uplink. The eNB can calculate the PUSCH SINR from SRS.

One use of SRS is Frequency Selective Scheduling on Uplink. In case of TDD, SRS can also give a channel estimation of Downlink as well because DL is the same frequency as UL. SRS can be used in Downlink scheduling aspects as well in case of TDD.

If SRS is disabled, nothing happens. You will not have a very good idea of the uplink channel at all the frequencies of the subcarriers. So Uplink Frequency Selective Scheduling is not possible without SRS, I guess.

answer Sep 4, 2015 by Sudeep Gopal
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