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Granted Patent B2
US 12,289,721 · App. 17/802,808 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Terminal, radio communication method, and base station

Inventors: Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Shaozhen Guo (Beijing, CN); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/1268H04W72/046
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Patent No.
US 12,289,721
App. No.
17/802,808
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines spatial relation information for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for a plurality of transmission/reception points by using at least one of radio resource control (RRC) signaling, medium access control (MAC) signaling, and downlink control information (DCI), and a transmitting section that repeatedly transmits the PUSCH by using a spatial domain transmission filter based on the spatial relation information. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, PUSCH repetition transmission can be appropriately controlled.

Claims (25)

1. A terminal comprising:

a processor that, when receiving, by radio resource control (RRC) signaling, configuration information regarding a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set for certain usage, determines, based on the SRS resource set, spatial relation information for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for multiple transmission/reception points,

wherein the SRS resource set is indicated by a field of downlink control information (DCI); and

a transmitter that transmits, based on the spatial relation information, repetition of the PUSCH,

wherein the processor performs, when a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state is used as the spatial relation information, to transmit the repetition of the PUSCH using a TCI state set corresponding to a DCI code point and used in common to both downlink and uplink.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the certain usage is codebook (CB) or noncodebook (NCB).

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

when the terminal receives, by radio resource control (RRC) signaling, configuration information regarding a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set for certain usage, determining, based on the SRS resource set, spatial relation information for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for multiple transmission/reception points,

wherein the SRS resource set is indicated by a field of downlink control information (DCI);

transmitting, based on the spatial relation information, repetition of the PUSCH; and

performing, when a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state is used as the spatial relation information, to transmit the repetition of the PUSCH using a TCI state set corresponding to a DCI code point and used in common to both downlink and uplink.

4. A base station comprising:

a transmitter that, when transmitting, by radio resource control (RRC) signaling, configuration information regarding a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set for certain usage, transmits, to a terminal, downlink control information (DCI) including a field that indicates the SRS resource set, the DCI being used for determination of spatial relation information for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for multiple transmission/reception points; and

a receiver that receives repetition of the PUSCH transmitted, based on the spatial relation information, from the terminal,

wherein the receiver receives, when a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state is used as the spatial relation information, the repetition of the PUSCH transmitted, using a TCI state set corresponding to a DCI code point and used in common to both downlink and uplink, from the terminal.

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

the terminal comprises:

a processor that, when receiving, by radio resource control (RRC) signaling, configuration information regarding a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set for certain usage, determines, based on the SRS resource set spatial relation information for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for multiple transmission/reception points,

wherein the SRS resource set is indicated by a field of downlink control information (DCI); and

a transmitter of the terminal that transmits, based on the spatial relation information, repetition of the PUSCH,

wherein the processor performs, when a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state is used as the spatial relation information, to transmit the repetition of the PUSCH using a TCI state set corresponding to a DCI code point and used in common to both downlink and uplink, and

the base station comprises:

a transmitter of the base station that, when transmitting, by the RRC signaling, the configuration information, transmits, to the terminal, the DCI used for determination of the spatial relation information for the PUSCH; and

a receiver that receives the repetition of the PUSCH transmitted, based on the spatial relation information, from the terminal,

wherein the receiver receives, when the TCI state is used as the spatial relation information, the repetition of the PUSCH transmitted, using the TCI state set, from the terminal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 9, 2022
From: MATSUMURA, YUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; GUO, SHAOZHEN; WANG, JING; HOU, XIAOLIN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 061049/0604 →
Continuity (1)
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