Systems and methods for PDSCH based CSI measurement

1. A method for a user equipment (UE) to perform a channel state information (CSI) measurement based on measuring a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission, the method comprising:

enabling, based on higher layer signaling received from a base station, a PDSCH resource mapping for frequency hopping corresponding to a number of hops;

determining, at the UE, the DMRS for the PDSCH transmission with the frequency hopping for the CSI measurement;

measuring the DMRS for the PDSCH transmissions;

determining the CSI measurement based on the measured DMRS for the PDSCH transmission; and

reporting the CSI measurement to the base station.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising reporting, from the UE to the base station, a UE capability to support the CSI measurement based on measuring the DMRS for the PDSCH transmission.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the higher layer signaling received from the base station comprises one or more of radio resource control (RRC) signaling and downlink control information (DCI).

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the DCI comprises a flag to indicate the frequency hopping.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the higher layer signaling configures a frequency offset for each hop of the number of hops of the frequency hopping.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the frequency offset is defined at a resource block level corresponding to either a first gap between starting resource blocks for every two hops of the number of hops or a second gap between an ending resource block in a first hop of the number of hops and a corresponding starting resource block in a second hop of the number of hops.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the frequency offset for each hop of the number of hops is based on a reference hop.

8. The method of claim 3 , wherein the RRC signaling comprises a list of frequency hopping offsets and a field in the DCI indicates one frequency hopping offset from the list.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining a frequency offset for each hop of the number of hops of the frequency hopping based on one or more of a number of scheduled resource blocks (N_RB), a maximum number of scheduled resource blocks in an active bandwidth part (N_BWP), and a total number of hops (N_h).

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the frequency offset=N_RB+floor(N_BWP/N_h), wherein floor ( ) is a floor function.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the higher layer signaling received from the base station comprises radio resource control (RRC) signaling or a scheduling downlink control information (DCI) indicating the number of hops for the frequency hopping for the PDSCH transmission.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the number of hops for the frequency hopping for the PDSCH transmission is predefined.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining the number of hops for the frequency hopping for the PDSCH transmission is based on a number of PDSCH transmission occasions.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the number of hops is the same as the number of PDSCH transmission occasions.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the higher layer signaling received from the base station indicates the number of hops per the number of PDSCH transmission occasions, wherein a total number of hops comprises the number of PDSCH transmission occasions times the number of hops per the number of PDSCH transmission occasions.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining a maximum number of hops for the frequency hopping for the PDSCH transmission based on a number of scheduled resource blocks (N_RB) and a total number of resource blocks in an active bandwidth part (N_BWP).

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the maximum number of hops=ceil(N_BWP/N_RB), where ceil ( ) is a ceiling function.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the higher layer signaling received from the base station indicates a DMRS time domain location per hop of the number of hops of the frequency hopping, the method further comprising applying a common DMRS time domain pattern for the frequency hopping.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the higher layer signaling received from the base station indicates a DMRS time domain location per PDSCH transmission occasion, wherein each hop of the number of hops of the frequency hopping comprises DMRS symbols with a same number of DMRS ports.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the frequency hopping is applicable for a single type of frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) or for two types of FDRA.