Patent 10980022 was granted and assigned to Qualcomm on April, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Wireless communications systems and methods related to a coupled mode common uplink burst in Time Division Duplex (TDD) sub-frame structure are disclosed. Upon receiving a signal requesting a user to transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS) and a control channel within a common uplink (UL) burst in each sub-frame communicated between the user and a base station, the user transmits the common UL burst comprising the SRS coupled with the control channel spanning the same frequency bandwidth.