IP Library Granted Patent US 12,495,312
Granted Patent B2
US 12,495,312 · App. 17/910,997 · Granted Dec 9, 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)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W16/28H04W72/1273H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,495,312
App. No.
17/910,997
Granted
Dec 9, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines one or more default transmission configuration indication (TCI) states to be applied to respective reception occasions of repeated reception of a downlink shared channel (Physical downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)), and a receiving section that carries out the repeated reception by using a spatial domain reception filter based on the one or more default TCI states. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a QCL parameter for multi-panels/TRPs can be appropriately determined.

Claims (17)

1 . A terminal comprising:

a transmitter that transmits terminal capability information;

a receiver that receives a downlink control information (DCI), the DCI scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and indicating a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state; and

a processor that determines, based on the terminal capability information, a maximum number of TCI states applied in a reception of the PDSCH when a higher layer parameter including an information element of the TCI state indicated by the DCI is configured and an offset between the DCI and the PDSCH scheduled by the DCI is less than a threshold value,

wherein the higher layer parameter is commonly configured for a plurality of channels,

wherein the plurality of channels includes an uplink (UL) channel and a downlink (DL) channel,

wherein the information element of the TCI state comprises reference signal quasi-colocation relation information, and

wherein the processor determines a TCI state applied to a second PDSCH scheduled by a second DCI, based on an ordering of TCI states indicated by a medium access control control element (MAC CE) and a start position configured by a second higher layer parameter, when a number of TCI states indicated by a codepoint for the second PDSCH is greater than a number of TCI states applied to the second PDSCH.

2 . A radio communication method performed by a terminal, the method comprising:

transmitting terminal capability information;

receiving a downlink control information (DCI), the DCI scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and indicating a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state; and

determining, based on the terminal capability information, a maximum number of TCI states applied in a reception of the PDSCH when a higher layer parameter including an information element of the TCI state indicated by the DCI is configured and an offset between the DCI and the PDSCH scheduled by the DCI is less than a threshold value,

wherein the higher layer parameter is commonly configured for a plurality of channels,

wherein the plurality of channels includes an uplink (UL) channel and a downlink (DL) channel,

wherein the information element of the TCI state comprises reference signal quasi-colocation relation information, and

wherein the terminal determines a TCI state applied to a second PDSCH scheduled by a second DCI, based on an ordering of TCI states indicated by a medium access control control element (MAC CE) and a start position configured by a second higher layer parameter, when a number of TCI states indicated by a codepoint for the second PDSCH is greater than a number of TCI states applied to the second PDSCH.

3 . A system comprising the terminal according to claim 1 , and a base station.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2022
From: MATSUMURA, YUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; GUO, SHAOZHEN; WANG, JING
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 061139/0206 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230171611A1 · Jun 1, 2023
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