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App. No. 18/765,073

SIGNALING FOR UPLINK BEAM ACTIVATION

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18/765,073
Abstract

A configuration to configure a UE to activate a subset of configured UL-TCI states. The apparatus receives a configuration of UL-TCI states and an activation of a subset of configured UL-TCI states. The apparatus receives DCI in a PDCCH scheduling an UL transmission with one or more TCI states of activated TCI states. The apparatus transmits the UL transmission based on the one or more TCI states.

Claims (66)

1 . (canceled)

2 . A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving a configuration of uplink (UL) transmission configuration indicator (TCI) (UL-TCI) states that comprise configured UL-TCI states, wherein the configured UL-TCI states are initially deactivated upon the configuration;

receiving an activation of a subset of the configured UL-TCI states, the subset of the configured UL-TCI states comprising activated UL-TCI states;

receiving downlink control information (DCI) in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scheduling a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission with one or more UL-TCI states of the activated UL-TCI states; and

transmitting the SRS transmission based on the one or more UL-TCI states, wherein transmitting the SRS transmission comprises transmitting the SRS transmission with a quasi-co location (QCL) property associated with the one or more UL-TCI states, and wherein each UL-TCI state in the configured UL-TCI states corresponds to a first reference signal associated with indicating a UL transmit (Tx) beam configuration for a UL channel or a UL reference signal.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the configuration of UL-TCI states is received through a radio resource control (RRC) signal and the activation is received through a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) (MAC-CE).

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the QCL property comprises at least one of:

one or more port indications,

a Doppler shift,

a Doppler spread,

an average delay,

a delay spread,

a spatial Tx parameter, or

a spatial receive (Rx) parameter.

5 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the DCI includes one or more codepoint values indicating the one or more UL-TCI states of the activated UL-TCI states.

6 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

receiving a mapping between the activated UL-TCI states and a set of codepoint values, the one or more codepoint values being within the set of codepoint values.

7 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the first reference signal is further associated with a panel identifier (ID) of the UE.

8 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the first reference signal is one of SRS, or a downlink (DL) reference signal (RS).

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the DL RS is one of:

a channel state information (CSI) RS (CSI-RS),

a demodulation RS (DM-RS) for at least one of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or the PDCCH, or

a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) (SS/PBCH) block.

10 . An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

receive a configuration of uplink (UL) transmission configuration indicator (TCI) (UL-TCI) states that comprise configured UL-TCI states, wherein the configured UL-TCI states are initially deactivated upon the configuration;

receive an activation of a subset of the configured UL-TCI states, the subset of the configured UL-TCI states comprising activated UL-TCI states;

receive downlink control information (DCI) in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scheduling a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission with one or more UL-TCI states of the activated UL-TCI states; and

transmit the SRS transmission based on the one or more UL-TCI states, wherein transmitting the SRS transmission comprises transmitting the SRS transmission with a quasi-co location (QCL) property associated with the one or more UL-TCI states, and wherein each UL-TCI state in the configured UL-TCI states corresponds to a first reference signal associated with indicating a UL transmit (Tx) beam configuration for a UL channel or a UL reference signal.

11 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the configuration of UL-TCI states is received through a radio resource control (RRC) signal and the activation is received a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) (MAC-CE).

12 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the QCL property comprises at least one of:

one or more port indications,

a Doppler shift,

a Doppler spread,

an average delay,

a delay spread,

a spatial Tx parameter, or

a spatial receive (Rx) parameter.

13 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the DCI includes one or more codepoint values indicating the one or more UL-TCI states of the activated UL-TCI states.

14 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive a mapping between the activated UL-TCI states and a set of codepoint values, wherein the one or more codepoint values are within the set of codepoint values.

15 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first reference signal is further associated with a panel identifier (ID) of the UE.

16 . The apparatus of claim 10 , further comprising:

at least one transceiver coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the first reference signal is one of SRS, or a downlink (DL) reference signal (RS).

17 . The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the DL RS is one of:

a channel state information (CSI) RS (CSI-RS),

a demodulation RS (DM-RS) for at least one of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or the PDCCH, or

a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) (SS/PBCH) block.

18 . A method of wireless communication at a base station (BS), comprising:

transmitting a configuration of uplink (UL) transmission configuration indicator (TCI) (UL-TCI) states that comprise configured UL-TCI states, wherein the configured UL-TCI states are initially deactivated upon the configuration;

transmitting an activation of a subset of the configured UL-TCI states, the subset of the configured UL-TCI states comprising activated UL-TCI states;

transmitting downlink control information (DCI) in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scheduling a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission with one or more UL-TCI states of the activated UL-TCI states;

receiving the SRS transmission based on the one or more UL-TCI states, wherein transmitting the SRS transmission comprises transmitting the SRS transmission with a quasi-co location (QCL) property associated with the one or more UL-TCI states, and wherein each UL-TCI state in the configured UL-TCI states corresponds to a first reference signal associated with indicating a UL transmit (Tx) beam configuration for a UL channel or a UL reference signal; and

demodulating the SRS transmission based on the one or more UL-TCI states.

19 . The method of claim 18 , wherein the configuration of UL-TCI states is transmitted through a radio resource control (RRC) signal and the activation is transmitted in a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) (MAC-CE).

20 . The method of claim 18 , wherein the QCL property comprises at least one of:

one or more port indications,

a Doppler shift,

a Doppler spread,

an average delay,

a delay spread,

a spatial Tx parameter, or

a spatial receive (Rx) parameter.

21 . The method of claim 18 , wherein the DCI includes one or more codepoint values indicating the one or more UL-TCI states of the activated UL-TCI states.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2024
From: VENUGOPAL, KIRAN; ZHOU, YAN; BAI, TIANYANG; LUO, TAO; LI, JUNYI
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
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