Communication in multiple transmission/reception point environments

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12556255-B2
Application number	US-202318178250-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 3, 2023
Priority date	Oct 23, 2020
Publication date	Feb 17, 2026
Grant date	Feb 17, 2026

Abstract

Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for communication in multiple transmission/reception point (TRP) environments. A wireless communication device may receive, from a wireless communication node, a configuration of at least one sounding reference signal (SRS) resource. The wireless communication device may receive, from the wireless communication node, an indication of at least one beam state. The wireless communication device may determine at least one first SRS resource according to the at least one beam state and the at least one SRS resource. The wireless communication device may determine a transmission parameter for an uplink transmission, according to the at least one first SRS resource.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
receiving, by a wireless communication device from a wireless communication node, a configuration of at least one first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource; receiving, by the wireless communication device from the wireless communication node, an indication of at least one beam state; determining, by the wireless communication device, an association between one of the at least one beam state and an SRS resource set from at least one SRS resource set, wherein the SRS resource set comprises one or more of the at least one first SRS resource; determining, by the wireless communication device, at least one second SRS resource according to the association; and determining, by the wireless communication device, a transmission parameter for an uplink transmission, according to the at least one second SRS resource, wherein each of the at least one beam state comprises a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication comprises at least one of indication via a down link control information (DCI) or activation via a medium access control control element (MAC CE) signaling.

3 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
determining, by the wireless communication device, a transmission parameter for the at least one first SRS resource, according to the at least one beam state; determining, by the wireless communication device, a transmission parameter for the at least one second SRS resource, according to the at least one beam state; or determining, by the wireless communication device, a transmission parameter for at least a third SRS resource, according to the at least one beam state, wherein the third SRS resource is associated with the at least one beam state.

4 . The method of claim 3 , comprising:
transmitting, by the wireless communication device, at least one first SRS resource according to the transmission parameter for the at least one first SRS resource, the at least one second SRS resource or the at least one third SRS resource.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein
the at least one beam state is associated with the at least one first SRS resource; one of the at least one beam state is associated with one of the at least one first SRS resource; or one of the at least one beam state is associated with a group of SRS resources from at least one group of SRS resources, the at least one group of SRS resources obtained from the at least one first SRS resource.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein:
each of the at least one beam state is respectively associated with N SRS resources or N groups of SRS resources in an SRS resource set; each of the at least one beam state is respectively associated with N SRS resources or N groups of SRS resources, each of the N SRS resources or the N SRS resource groups in a respective SRS resource set; each of the at least one beam state is respectively associated with first or last N SRS resources or first N groups of SRS resources in an SRS resource set; or each of the at least one beam state is respectively associated with first or last N SRS resources or first N SRS resource groups, each of the N SRS resources or the N SRS resource groups in a respective SRS resource set, wherein Nis an integer that is equal to a number of beam states of the at least one beam state.

7 . The method of claim 5 , comprising:
determining, by the wireless communication device, an association between one of the at least one beam state and one of the at least one first SRS resource or one of the at least one group of SRS resources or one of the at least one SRS resource sets, according to the at least one beam state and the at least one first SRS resource or the one of the at least one group of SRS resources or the one of the at least one SRS resource set being associated with a transmission reception point (TRP).

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the TRP comprises or corresponds to a control resource set (CORESET) pool identifier (ID), a physical cell ID (PCI), a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, a TCI state group, a beam state or a beam state group.

9 . The method of claim 5 , comprising:
determining, by the wireless communication device, an association between one of the at least one beam state, and one of the at least one first SRS resource or one of the at least one group of SRS resources or one of the at least one SRS resource set, according to at least one of:
an identifier of the at least one first SRS resource in the one of the at least one SRS resource set;
an identifier of the one of the at least one SRS resource set; an identifier of the one of the at least one group of SRS resources;
a position of the at least one beam state in a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state codepoint; or
a control resource set (CORESET) pool identifier (ID) associated with the one of the at least one beam state.

10 . The method of claim 5 , comprising:
determining, by the wireless communication device, the association between the at least one beam state and the at least one first SRS resource, in response to the at least one first SRS resource having a spatial relation which is same as or Quasi Co-Located (QCLed) with an RS of the at least one beam state; or determining, by the wireless communication device, the at least one second SRS resource according to an association between the at least one beam state and the at least one first SRS resource.

11 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
receiving, by the wireless communication device from the wireless communication node, an SRS resource indicator (SRI) for the uplink transmission; and determining, by the wireless communication device, the at least one second SRS resource according to the at least one beam state and the SRI, wherein one of the at least one beam state is associated with an SRS resource set or a group of SRS resources from the at least one first SRS resource, and the SRI indicates the at least one second SRS resource in the SRS resource set or in the group of SRS resources.

12 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
determining, by the wireless communication device, a trans-mission reception point (TRP) corresponding to the uplink transmission, according to a control resource set (CORE-SET) pool identifier (ID) that is associated with a down link control information (DCI) that indicates a beam state of the uplink transmission.

13 . A method, comprising:
transmitting, by a wireless communication node to a wireless communication device, a configuration of at least one first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource; transmitting, by the wireless communication node to the wireless communication device, an indication of at least one beam state; causing the wireless communication device to: determine an association between one of the at least one beam state and an SRS resource set from at least one SRS resource set, wherein the SRS resource set comprises one or more of the at least one first SRS resource; determine at least one second SRS resource according to the association; and determine a transmission parameter for an uplink transmission, according to the at least one second SRS resource, wherein each of the at least one beam state comprises a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state.

14 . A wireless communication device comprising at least one processor configured to:
receive, via a receiver from a wireless communication node, a configuration of at least one sounding reference signal (SRS) resource; receive, via the receiver from the wireless communication node, an

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Yao Ke
• Gao Bo
• Jiang Chuangxin
• Lu Zhaohua
• Yan Wenjun

Classifications

• H04L5/0051

  of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal · CPC title

• H04W72/231

  the control data signalling from the layers above the physical layer, e.g. RRC or MAC-CE signalling · CPC title

• H04L5/0053

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04L5/0094

  Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated · CPC title

• H04L5/0023

  Time-frequency-space · CPC title