IP Library Granted Patent US 11,974,270
Granted Patent B2
US 11,974,270 · App. 17/430,462 · Granted Apr 30, 2024

Terminal, radio communication method, base station, and system for supressing deterioration of communication quality

Inventors: Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/1263H04L5/0051H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 11,974,270
App. No.
17/430,462
Granted
Apr 30, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

In order to suppress deterioration of communication quality even when communication is performed using a plurality of transmission/reception points, an aspect of user terminal of the present disclosure includes: a reception section that receives given downlink control information including information regarding TCI states corresponding to the plurality of transmission/reception points; and a control section that controls reception of physical shared channels transmitted from the plurality of transmission/reception points based on the given downlink control information.

Claims (28)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state mapped to each codepoint of a TCI field included in downlink control information (DCI); and

a processor that controls, based on a TCI state corresponding to a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, reception of a downlink shared channel (PDSCH),

wherein it is supported that when two TCI states are mapped to a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, the two TCI states correspond to different CDM groups,

mapping of two TCI states with non-contiguous indexes to one codepoint indicated by the TCI field is supported based on a plurality of higher layer signaling, and

a maximum number of TCI states mapped to the codepoint indicated by the TCI field is two.

2. A radio communication method for a terminal, comprising:

receiving a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state mapped to each codepoint of a TCI field included in downlink control information (DCI); and

controlling, based on a TCI state corresponding to a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, reception of a downlink shared channel (PDSCH),

wherein it is supported that when two TCI states are mapped to a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, the two TCI states correspond to different CDM groups,

mapping of two TCI states with non-contiguous indexes to one codepoint indicated by the TCI field is supported based on a plurality of higher layer signaling, and

a maximum number of TCI states mapped to the codepoint indicated by the TCI field is two.

3. A base station comprising:

a transmitter that transmits a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state mapped to each codepoint of a TCI field included in downlink control information (DCI); and

a processor that controls to indicate, by a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, a TCI state corresponding to a downlink shared channel (PDSCH),

wherein it is supported that when two TCI states are mapped to a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, the two TCI states correspond to different CDM groups,

mapping of two TCI states with non-contiguous indexes to one codepoint indicated by the TCI field is supported based on a plurality of higher layer signaling, and

a maximum number of TCI states mapped to the codepoint indicated by the TCI field is two.

4. A system comprising a terminal and a base station, wherein

the terminal comprises:

a receiver that receives a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) indicating a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state mapped to each codepoint of a TCI field included in downlink control information (DCI); and

a processor that controls, based on a TCI state corresponding to a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, reception of a downlink shared channel (PDSCH),

wherein mapping of two TCI states with non-contiguous indexes to one codepoint indicated by the TCI field is supported based on a plurality of higher layer signaling, and

a maximum number of TCI states mapped to the codepoint indicated by the TCI field is two, and

the base station comprises:

a transmitter that transmits the MAC CE; and

a processor that controls to indicate, by a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, a TCI state corresponding to the PDSCH,

wherein it is supported that when two TCI states are mapped to a codepoint indicated by the TCI field, the two TCI states correspond to different CDM groups.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 23, 2021
From: MATSUMURA, YUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, JING; HOU, XIAOLIN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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