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US 12,526,649 · App. 18/043,182 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Terminal, radio communication method, and base station

Inventors: Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Weiqi Sun (Beijing, CN); Jing Wang (Beijing, CN); Lan Chen (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W16/28H04B7/06968H04W72/21
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Patent No.
US 12,526,649
App. No.
18/043,182
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a plurality of quasi-co-location (QCL) parameters with respect to a control resource set (CORESET), and a control section that uses, in a case where at least one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and the CORESET satisfies a condition, at least one of the plurality of QCL parameters, in at least one spatial relation of the PUCCH. The one aspect of the present disclosure enables appropriately determining information relating to QCL.

Claims (27)

1 . A terminal comprising:

a transmitter that transmits capability information indicating support for using one of multiple transmission configuration indication (TCI) states indicated for a control resource set (CORESET) as a PUCCH default spatial relation;

a receiver that receives a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) indicating multiple TCI states for a CORESET; and

a processor that, when PUCCH spatial relation information is not configured and a pathloss reference signal is not configured, and when the MAC CE indicates multiple TCI states for a CORESET with a lowest ID in an active downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) of a cell, controls to transmit a PUCCH by using a spatial relation corresponding to a first TCI state of the multiple TCI states as the PUCCH default spatial relation,

wherein the processor controls, when a time offset between a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by downlink control information (DCI) without a TCI field in the CORESET and the DCI is equal to or greater than a threshold value, to receive the PDSCH by using at least one of the multiple TCI states that are for the CORESET with the lowest ID in the active DL BWP of the cell, and

the processor controls, when receiving the PDSCH from a single transmission/reception point (TRP), to receive the PDSCH by using the first TCI state, and controls, when receiving the PDSCH from multi-TRP, to receive the PDSCH by using the multiple TCI states.

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

transmitting capability information indicating support for using one of multiple transmission configuration indication (TCI) states indicated for a control resource set (CORESET) as a PUCCH default spatial relation;

receiving a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) indicating multiple TCI states for a CORESET;

when PUCCH spatial relation information is not configured and a pathloss reference signal is not configured, and when the MAC CE indicates multiple TCI states for a CORESET with a lowest ID in an active downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) of a cell, controlling to transmit a PUCCH by using a spatial relation corresponding to a first TCI state of the multiple TCI states as the PUCCH default spatial relation;

controlling, when a time offset between a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by downlink control information (DCI) without a TCI field in the CORESET and the DCI is equal to or greater than a threshold value, to receive the PDSCH by using at least one of the multiple TCI states that are for the CORESET with the lowest ID in the active DL BWP of the cell; and

controlling, when receiving the PDSCH from a single transmission/reception point (TRP), to receive the PDSCH by using the first TCI state, and controlling, when receiving the PDSCH from multi-TRP, to receive the PDSCH by using the multiple TCI states.

3 . A base station comprising:

a receiver that receives capability information indicating support for using one of multiple transmission configuration indication (TCI) states indicated for a control resource set (CORESET) as a PUCCH default spatial relation;

a transmitter that transmits a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) indicating multiple TCI states for a CORESET; and

a processor that, when a terminal is not configured with PUCCH spatial relation information and is not configured with a pathloss reference signal, and when the MAC CE indicates multiple TCI states for a CORESET with a lowest ID in an active downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) of a cell, controls to receive a PUCCH by using a spatial relation corresponding to a first TCI state of the multiple TCI states as the PUCCH default spatial relation,

wherein the processor controls, when a time offset between a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by downlink control information (DCI) without a TCI field in the CORESET and the DCI is equal to or greater than a threshold value, to transmit the PDSCH by using at least one of the multiple TCI states that are for the CORESET with the lowest ID in the active DL BWP of the cell, and

the processor controls, when transmitting the PDSCH from a single transmission/reception point (TRP), to transmit the PDSCH by using the first TCI state, and controls, when transmitting the PDSCH from multi-TRP, to transmit the PDSCH by using the multiple TCI states.

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

the terminal comprises:

a transmitter that transmits capability information indicating support for using one of multiple transmission configuration indication (TCI) states indicated for a control resource set (CORESET) as a PUCCH default spatial relation;

a receiver that receives a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) indicating multiple TCI states for a CORESET; and

a processor that, when PUCCH spatial relation information is not configured and a pathloss reference signal is not configured, and when the MAC CE indicates multiple TCI states for a CORESET with a lowest ID in an active downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) of a cell, controls to transmit a PUCCH by using a spatial relation corresponding to a first TCI state of the multiple TCI states as the PUCCH default spatial relation,

wherein the processor controls, when a time offset between a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by downlink control information (DCI) without a TCI field in the CORESET and the DCI is equal to or greater than a threshold value, to receive the PDSCH by using at least one of the multiple TCI states that are for the CORESET with the lowest ID in the active DL BWP of the cell, and

the processor controls, when receiving the PDSCH from a single transmission/reception point (TRP), to receive the PDSCH by using the first TCI state, and controls, when receiving the PDSCH from multi-TRP, to receive the PDSCH by using the multiple TCI states, and

the base station comprises:

a transmitter that transmits the MAC CE.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 1, 2023
From: MATSUMURA, YUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; SUN, WEIQI; WANG, JING; CHEN, LAN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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