IP Library Granted Patent US 12,470,281
Granted Patent B2
US 12,470,281 · App. 18/003,189 · Granted Nov 11, 2025

Default beam determination for uplink signal transmission

Inventors: Bingchao Liu (Changping District, CN); Chenxi Zhu (Haidian District, CN); Wei Ling (Beijing, CN); Lingling Xiao (Beijing, CN); Yi Zhang (Chao Yang District, CN)
Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
H04B7/06968H04L5/0051H04L5/0053
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Patent No.
US 12,470,281
App. No.
18/003,189
Granted
Nov 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for determining default spatial relation and default PL-RS are disclosed. A method comprises determining a default spatial relation and a default pathloss reference RS (PL-RS) for transmission of uplink resource on a serving cell without configured CORESET, the uplink resource is configured with neither higher layer parameter related to spatial relation nor higher layer parameter related to PL-RS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam for the uplink resource is set to ‘enable’, and transmitting the uplink resource according to the determined default spatial relation and the power determined by the determined default PL-RS.

Claims (32)

1 . A method performed by a remote unit, the method comprising:

determining a default spatial relation and a default pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) for transmission of uplink resource on a serving cell without configured control resource set (CORESET), wherein the uplink resource is configured with neither higher layer parameter related to spatial relation nor a higher layer parameter related to PL-RS, and a higher layer parameter related to enable default beam for the uplink resource is set to ‘enable’, and wherein the default spatial relation is determined based on a default transmission configuration indication (TCI) state; and

transmitting the uplink resource according to the determined default spatial relation and a power determined based on the determined default PL-RS and the default TCI state.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink resource comprises a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource, the higher layer parameter related to spatial relation comprises spatialRelationInfo, the higher layer parameter related to PL-RS comprises pathlossReferenceRS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam comprises enableDefaultBeamPlForSRS.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink resource comprises dedicated physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission, the higher layer parameter related to spatial relation comprises PUCCH-spatialRelationInfo, the higher layer parameter related to PL-RS comprises pathlossReferenceRS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam comprises enableDefaultBeamPlForPUCCH.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein, if at least one transmission configuration indication (TCI) field codepoint for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission on the serving cell points to two different TCI states, the default spatial relation is determined with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as a first TCI state pointed to by a lowest TCI codepoint among TCI field codepoints containing two different TCI states.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein, if at least one transmission configuration indication (TCI) field codepoint for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission on the serving cell points to two different TCI states, the default spatial relation is determined with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as a first TCI state pointed to by a lowest TCI codepoint among multiple TCI field codepoints.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein, the serving cell is a SCell without configured CORESET, each activated transmission configuration indication (TCI) state for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the SCell is associated with a CORESETPoolIndex value configured on a primary cell (PCell), the spatial relation is determined with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as the activated TCI state with a lowest identifier (ID) applicable to PDSCH associated with a same CORESETPoolIndex value as a CORESETPoolIndex value associated with the uplink resource in an active downlink bandwidth part (DL-BWP).

7 . A remote unit for wireless communication, comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the remote unit to:

determining a default spatial relation and a default pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) for transmission of uplink resource on a serving cell without configured control resource set (CORESET), wherein the uplink resource is configured with neither higher layer parameter related to spatial relation nor higher layer parameter related to PL-RS, and a higher layer parameter related to enable default beam for the uplink resource is set ‘enable’, and wherein the default spatial relation is determined based on a default transmission configuration indication (TCI) state; and

transmitting the uplink resource according to the determined default spatial relation and a power determined based on the determined default PL-RS and the default TCI state.

8 . The remote unit of claim 7 , wherein the uplink resource comprises a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource, the higher layer parameter related to spatial relation comprises spatialRelationInfo, the higher layer parameter related to PL-RS comprises pathlossReferenceRS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam comprises enable DefaultBeamPlForSRS.

9 . The remote unit of claim 7 , wherein the uplink resource comprises dedicated physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission, the higher layer parameter related to spatial relation comprises PUCCH-spatialRelationInfo, the higher layer parameter related to PL-RS comprises pathlossReferenceRS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam comprises enableDefaultBeamPlForPUCCH.

10 . The remote unit of claim 7 , wherein, if at least one TCI field codepoint for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission on the serving cell points to two different TCI states, the processor is configured to determine the default spatial relation with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as a first TCI state pointed to by a lowest TCI codepoint among TCI field codepoints containing two different TCI states.

11 . The remote unit of claim 7 , wherein, if at least one TCI field codepoint for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission on the serving cell points to two different TCI states, the processor is configured to determine the default spatial relation with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as a first TCI state pointed to by a lowest TCI codepoint among multiple TCI field codepoints.

12 . The remote unit of claim 7 , wherein, the serving cell is a SCell without configured CORESET, each activated TCI state for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the SCell is associated with a CORESETPoolIndex value configured on a primary cell (PCell), the spatial relation is determined with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as the activated TCI state with a lowest identifier (ID) applicable to PDSCH associated with a same CORESETPoolIndex value as a CORESETPoolIndex value associated with the uplink resource in an active downlink bandwidth part (DL-BWP).

13 . The remote unit of claim 7 , wherein, the at least one processor is configured to cause the base unit to determine the default PL-RS by determining a RS resource index q d providing a periodic RS resource with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D in a determined default TCI state.

14 . A base unit for wireless communication, comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the base unit to:

determining a default spatial relation and a default pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) for reception of uplink resource on a serving cell without configured control resource set (CORESET), wherein the uplink resource is configured with neither a higher layer parameter related to spatial relation nor higher layer parameter related to PL-RS, and a higher layer parameter related to enable default beam for the uplink resource is set to ‘enable’, and wherein the default spatial relation is determined based on a default transmission configuration indication (TCI) state; and

receiving the uplink resource according to the determined default spatial relation and a power determined based on the determined default PL-RS at the default TCI state.

15 . The base unit of claim 14 , wherein the uplink resource comprises a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource, the higher layer parameter related to spatial relation comprises spatialRelationInfo, the higher layer parameter related to PL-RS comprises pathlossReferenceRS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam comprises enable DefaultBeamPlForSRS.

16 . The base unit of claim 14 , wherein the uplink resource comprises dedicated physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission, the higher layer parameter related to spatial relation comprises PUCCH-spatialRelationInfo, the higher layer parameter related to PL-RS comprises pathlossReferenceRS, and the higher layer parameter related to enable default beam comprises enableDefaultBeamPlForPUCCH.

17 . The base unit of claim 14 , wherein, if at least one TCI field codepoint for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission on the serving cell points to two different TCI states, the processor is configured to determine the default spatial relation with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as a first TCI state pointed to by a lowest TCI codepoint among TCI field codepoints containing two different TCI states.

18 . The base unit of claim 14 , wherein, if at least one TCI field codepoint for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission on the serving cell points to two different TCI states, the processor is configured to determine the default spatial relation with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as a first TCI state pointed to by a lowest TCI codepoint among multiple TCI field codepoints.

19 . The base unit of claim 14 , wherein, the serving cell is a SCell without configured CORESET, each activated TCI state for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the SCell is associated with a CORESETPoolIndex value configured on a primary cell (PCell), the spatial relation is determined with reference to the RS with quasi co-location (QCL)-Type D corresponding to a default TCI state which is determined as the activated TCI state with a lowest identifier (ID) applicable to PDSCH associated with a same CORESETPoolIndex value as a CORESETPoolIndex value associated with the uplink resource in an active downlink bandwidth part (DL-BWP).

20 . A method performed by a base unit, the method comprising:

determining a default spatial relation and a default pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) for reception of uplink resource on a serving cell without configured control resource set (CORESET), wherein the uplink resource is configured with neither a higher layer parameter related to spatial relation nor higher layer parameter related to PL-RS, and a higher layer parameter related to enable default beam for the uplink resource is set to ‘enable’, and wherein the default spatial relation is determined based on a default transmission configuration indication (TCI) state; and

receiving the uplink resource according to the determined default spatial relation and a power determined based on the determined default PL-RS at the default TCI state.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2025
From: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
To: EDGEWOOD IP, LLC
Reel/Frame 073328/0682 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 23, 2022
From: LIU, BINGCHAO; ZHU, CHENXI; LING, WEI; XIAO, LINGLING; ZHANG, YI
To: LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD.
Reel/Frame 062193/0900 →
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