For power limited UEs, wideband sounding may be performed, but may undesirably reduce SNR. While narrowband SRS transmissions may be used, such narrowband SRSs may require multiple switches by the UE and/or multiple transmissions per carrier in order to sound the whole bandwidth. Therefore, narrowband SRSs with multiple switches might not be efficient.
In order to overcome these challenges, the UE may transmit multiple SRSs per subframe. The SRS transmissions may be in different CCs, and therefore may require retuning. The SRS transmissions may be in different subbands of the same CC. The SRS transmissions may be repetitions in the same subband of the same CC. The configuration of the SRS transmissions may be different. For example, the bandwidth, frequency, location, cyclic shift, comb, etc. may be different for different SRS transmissions within the same subframe. The SRS transmissions may be staggered across subbands or across carriers. The eNB may configure the UE to stagger the SRS transmissions. The eNB may configure multiple UEs with staggered SRS transmissions so that the UEs can efficiently reuse retuning times.