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US 12,628,178 · App. 18/762,438 · Granted May 12, 2026

User equipment and network node involved in the transmission of signals using transmission parameters determined according to transmission configuration indication

Inventors: Ankit Bhamri (Rödermark, DE); Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04W72/23H04L5/0048H04L69/324H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 12,628,178
App. No.
18/762,438
Granted
May 12, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE), a network node, and communication methods respectively for a UE and a network node. The UE comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives, on a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, downlink control information, DCI, for scheduling a plurality of transmissions or receptions between the UE and a plurality of transmission and reception points, TRPs, on a plurality of channels, the DCI including one or more indicators indicating one or more respective transmission parameters, and circuitry which, in operation, obtains, based on the one or more indicators and on a configuration, a plurality of values respectively of the one or more transmission parameters. The transceiver, in operation, performs the plurality of transmissions or receptions using a respective one of the plurality of values of the one or more transmission parameters for each of the plurality of transmissions or receptions.

Claims (31)

1 . A user equipment (UE), comprising:

circuitry, which, in operation, determines, based on one or more downlink control information (DCI) indicators and on a configuration associated with a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field, one or more transmission parameters;

a transceiver, which, in operation, performs receptions on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using the one or more transmission parameters,

wherein

the one or more transmission parameters are determined in reference to a first table for the PDSCH in a case the configuration associated with the TCI field is for a single state,

the one or more transmission parameters are determined in reference to a second table for the PDSCH different from the first table for the PDSCH in a case the configuration associated with the TCI field is for multiple states, and

indices in the second table are represented by the same number of bits used to represent indices in the first table.

2 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more transmission parameters includes a value of DMRS (demodulation reference signal) antenna ports.

3 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein a number of entries in the second table is larger than a number of entries in the first table.

4 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein an entry modified or added in the second table relative to the first table indicates multiple DMRS (demodulation reference signal) antenna ports.

5 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein a subset of values of the TCI field is used to indicate the single state, and other values of the TCI field are used to indicate the multiple states.

6 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein the second table is enabled in a case one code word is enabled.

7 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein the second table indicates a number of DMRS (demodulation reference signal) CDM (code division multiplexing) groups without data and indicates DMRS ports.

8 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein values of entries in the second table relate to a single DMRS (demodulation reference signal) antenna port, and values of other entries in the second table relate to multiple DMRS antenna ports.

9 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein twelve entries indexed 0-11 in the second table are included in the first table and indexed 0-11, while an entry indexed 12 in the second table is not included in the first table.

10 . The UE according to claim 1 , wherein the indices are represented by 4 bits in the first table and the second table.

11 . A communication method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

determining, based on one or more downlink control information (DCI) indicators and on a configuration associated with a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field, one or more transmission parameters; and

performing receptions on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using the one or more transmission parameters,

wherein

the one or more transmission parameters are determined in reference to a first table for the PDSCH in a case the configuration associated with the TCI field is for a single state,

the one or more transmission parameters are determined in reference to a second table for the PDSCH different from the first table for the PDSCH in a case the configuration associated with the TCI field is for multiple states, and

indices in the second table are represented by the same number of bits used to represent indices in the first table.

12 . An integrated circuit comprising:

a processing circuit configured to control a process of a user equipment (UE), the process comprising:

determining, based on one or more downlink control information (DCI) indicators and on a configuration associated with a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field, one or more transmission parameters; and

performing receptions on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using the one or more transmission parameters,

wherein

the one or more transmission parameters are determined in reference to a first table for the PDSCH in a case the configuration associated with the TCI field is for a single state,

the one or more transmission parameters are determined in reference to a second table for the PDSCH different from the first table for the PDSCH in a case the configuration associated with the TCI field is for multiple states, and

indices in the second table are represented by the same number of bits used to represent indices in the first table.

Priority Claims (1)
EP 18205761 · Nov 12, 2018 · regional
Continuity (4)
Continuation 18477395 · Sep 28, 2023
Continuation 17131313 · Dec 22, 2020
Continuation PCTEP2019081037 · Nov 12, 2019
Related Publication 20240357609A1 · Oct 24, 2024
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