User equipment for channel state information (CSI) reporting for TRP operation

1 . A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a transceiver configured to connect to a base station; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from the base station, at least one channel state information (CSI) report configuration, wherein each CSI report configuration includes at least one reference resource set configuration, wherein each reference resource set configuration includes multiple CSI-reference signal (RS) resources, wherein a first portion of the multiple CSI-RS resources are configured for a single transmission and reception point (TRP) mode and a second portion of the multiple CSI-RS resources are for configured for a multiple TRP (multi-TRP) mode; and

sending, to the base station, a CSI report comprising at least a CSI reference signal indication (CRI) indicating whether the UE prefers the single TRP mode or the multi-TRP mode.

2 . One or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a base station, at least one channel state information (CSI) report configuration, wherein each CSI report configuration includes at least one reference resource set configuration, wherein each reference resource set configuration includes multiple CSI-reference signal (RS) resources, wherein a first portion of the multiple CSI-RS resources are configured for a single transmission and reception point (TRP) mode and a second portion of the multiple CSI-RS resources are for configured for a multiple TRP (multi-TRP) mode; and

sending, to the base station, a CSI report comprising a CSI reference signal indication (CRI) indicating whether a user equipment (UE) prefers the single TRP mode or the multi-TRP mode.

3 . The one or more processors of claim 2 , wherein one or more of (a) the at least one CSI report configuration, (b) at least one reference resource set configuration, and (c) at least one reference resource set configuration correspond to one of the single TRP mode or the multi-TRP mode.

4 . The one or more processors of claim 3 , wherein the operations further comprise:

performing CSI measurements based on the at least one reference resource set configuration,

wherein the CSI measurements correspond to the at least one CSI report configuration that corresponds to a preferred TRP mode.

5 . The one or more processors of claim 3 , wherein the at least one reference resource set configuration includes one or more reference resource sets corresponding to the single TRP mode and one or more reference resource sets corresponding to the multi-TRP mode.

6 . The one or more processors of claim 2 , wherein when the at least one CSI report configuration includes a plurality of CSI report configurations that exceed a UE capability, the operations further comprise:

omitting one or more CSI reports corresponding to one or more of the plurality of CSI report configurations.

7 . The one or more processors of claim 6 , wherein omitting the one or more CSI reports is based on a predetermined priority rule.

8 . The one or more processors of claim 6 , wherein the UE capability is based on a maximum number of CSI processing units (CPUs) to process one or more CSI reports and a maximum number of resources that the UE can process simultaneously.

9 . The one or more processors of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a CSI based on the at least one reference resource set configuration; and

transmitting the CSI to the base station,

wherein transmitting the CSI comprises one of,

(a) transmitting a first CSI report corresponding to a first TRP and a second CSI report corresponding to a second TRP,

(b) transmitting a first CSI resource set corresponding to a first TRP and a second CSI resource set corresponding to a second TRP, or

(c) transmitting a first CSI resource corresponding to a first TRP and a second CSI resource corresponding to a second TRP.

10 . The one or more processors of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting a CSI report to the base station, wherein the CSI report includes at least one rank indicator (RI) corresponding to at least one TRP.

11 . The one or more processors of claim 10 , wherein an RI equal to zero indicates that the UE does not prefer the corresponding TRP.

12 . The one or more processors of claim 10 , wherein the at least one RI includes a first RI corresponding to a first TRP and a second RI corresponding to a second TRP, and wherein the operations further comprise:

jointly encoding the first RI and the second RI to obtain a joint RI, wherein the joint RI is included in the CSI report.

13 . The one or more processors of claim 12 , wherein a maximum difference between the first RI and the second RI is 1.

14 . The one or more processors of claim 12 , wherein for a single downlink control information (DCI) based multi-TRP spatial domain multiplexing (SDM) mode, a maximum value for each RI is 2.

15 . The one or more processors of claim 14 , wherein for all single-DCI based multi-TRP modes, except the single-DCI based multi-TRP SDM mode, the first RI is equal to the second RI.

16 . The one or more processors of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting a CSI report to the base station, wherein the CSI report includes at least one precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to at least one TRP.

17 . The one or more processors of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting a CSI report to the base station, wherein the CSI report includes at least one channel quality indicator (CQI) corresponding to at least one TRP.

18 . The one or more processors of claim 17 , wherein the at least one CQI includes a first CQI corresponding to a first TRP and a second CQI corresponding to a second TRP, and wherein for multi-DCI based multi-TRP reporting, the operations further comprise:

jointly encoding the first CQI and the second CQI using differential encoding.

19 . The one or more processors of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting a single-DCI based multi-TRP scheme preference to the base station.

20 . The one or more processors of claim 2 , wherein each resource set configuration is a nzp-CSI-RS-ResourceSet information element (IE).