Terminal, wireless communication method, base station and system

Abstract

A terminal according to one embodiment of the present disclosure has: a reception unit that receives transmission configuration indication (TCI) state information indicating a plurality of TCI states and receives group-shared downlink control information; and a control unit that applies, to at least one of uplink and downlink signals, a TCI state associated with a field value in the downlink control information among the plurality of TCI states. Said embodiment of the present disclosure makes it possible to appropriately determine information related to QCL.

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present disclosure relates to a terminal and a wireless communication method in a next-generation mobile communication system. 、 base station and systems Regarding. [Background technology]

[0002] In the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network, Long Term Evolution (LTE) has been specified for the purpose of achieving higher data rates and lower latency (Non-Patent Document 1). In addition, LTE-Advanced (3GPP Rel. 10-14) has been specified for the purpose of achieving higher capacity and greater sophistication of LTE (Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release (Rel.) 8, 9).

[0003] Successor systems to LTE (e.g., 5th generation mobile communication system (5G), 5G+ (plus), 6th generation mobile communication system (6G), New Radio (NR), 3GPP Rel. 15 or later, etc.) are also being considered. [Prior art documents] [Non-patent literature]

[0004] [Non-Patent Document 1] 3GPP TS 36.300 V8.12.0 “Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2 (Release 8)”, April 2010 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] In future wireless communication systems (e.g., NR), it is being considered that user terminals (terminals, user terminals, User Equipment (UE)) will control transmission and reception processing based on information about quasi-co-location (QCL) (QCL assumptions / Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state / spatial relationship).

[0006] However, there are cases where information about the QCL is not clear. If information about the QCL is not clear, it may lead to a decrease in communication quality and throughput.

[0007] Therefore, the present disclosure relates to a terminal and a wireless communication method for appropriately determining information related to a QCL. 、 base station and systems One of the aims is to provide. [Means for solving the problem]

[0008] A terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a terminal that is configured to receive a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. and a higher layer configuration of a plurality of TCI states, each of which is mapped to a plurality of values ​​of a TCI field in a downlink control information (DCI), , Radio Resource Control information element (RRC IE) specific to each of multiple terminals As Receive the signal common to the multiple terminals DCI A receiving unit that receives the TCI status and The above common to multiple terminals DCI The above and a control unit that applies the TCI state associated with the value of the TCI field to at least one of an uplink and a downlink signal. Effect of the Invention

[0009] According to one aspect of the present disclosure, information regarding the QCL can be appropriately determined. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0010] [Figure 1] FIG. 1 shows an example of a common beam for both DL and UL. [Diagram 2] FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a common beam for DL ​​and a common beam for UL. [Diagram 3] FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of use case 0. [Figure 4] FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of use case 1. [Diagram 5] FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of use case 2. [Figure 6] FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a TCI state for a UE group. [Figure 7] FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of setting 1 according to the first embodiment. [Figure 8] FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of setting 2 according to the first embodiment. [Figure 9] 9A and 9B are diagrams illustrating an example of updating the TCI assumption according to the first embodiment. [Figure 10] 10A and 10B are diagrams showing an example of successful / unsuccessful reception of a group-common DCI. [Figure 11] FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of PUCCH resource configuration according to aspect 3-1. [Figure 12] FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of PUCCH resource configuration according to aspect 3-2. [Figure 13] 13A and 13B are diagrams illustrating an example of a group common PUCCH resource. [Figure 14] FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of the operation according to aspect 3-3. [Figure 15] FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of the operation according to aspect 3-4. [Figure 16] FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation according to the fourth embodiment. [Figure 17] FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of a schematic configuration of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment. [Figure 18]FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of a base station according to an embodiment. [Figure 19] FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of a user terminal according to an embodiment. [Figure 20] FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an example of the hardware configuration of a base station and a user terminal according to an embodiment. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0011] (TCI, spatial relations, QCL) In NR, it is considered to control reception processing (e.g., at least one of reception, demapping, demodulation, and decoding) and transmission processing (e.g., at least one of transmission, mapping, precoding, modulation, and encoding) in a UE of at least one of a signal and a channel (referred to as a signal / channel) based on a transmission configuration indication state (TCI state).

[0012] The TCI state may represent a state that is applied to a downlink signal / channel. The equivalent of the TCI state that is applied to an uplink signal / channel may be expressed as a spatial relation.

[0013] The TCI state is information on the Quasi-Co-Location (QCL) of signals / channels, and may be called spatial reception parameters, spatial relation information, etc. The TCI state may be configured in the UE for each channel or for each signal.

[0014] A QCL is an index that indicates the statistical properties of a signal / channel. For example, when a signal / channel and another signal / channel are in a QCL relationship, it may mean that it can be assumed that at least one of the following is the same (QCL with respect to at least one of the following) between these different signals / channels: Doppler shift, Doppler spread, average delay, delay spread, and spatial parameter (e.g., spatial Rx parameter).

[0015] In addition, the spatial reception parameters may correspond to a reception beam (e.g., a reception analog beam) of the UE, and the beam may be specified based on a spatial QCL. A QCL (or at least one element of a QCL) in the present disclosure may be replaced with a spatial QCL (sQCL).

[0016] A plurality of types (QCL types) of QCL may be defined. For example, four QCL types AD may be provided, each having different parameters (or parameter sets) that can be assumed to be the same. The parameters (which may be called QCL parameters) are as follows: QCL Type A (QCL-A): Doppler shift, Doppler spread, mean delay and delay spread, QCL type B (QCL-B): Doppler shift and Doppler spread, QCL type C (QCL-C): Doppler shift and mean delay, · QCL type D (QCL-D): spatial reception parameters.

[0017] The UE's assumption that a Control Resource Set (CORESET), channel, or reference signal is in a specific QCL (e.g., QCL type D) relationship with another CORESET, channel, or reference signal may be referred to as a QCL assumption.

[0018] The UE may determine at least one of a transmit beam (Tx beam) and a receive beam (Rx beam) for a signal / channel based on the TCI condition or QCL assumptions of the signal / channel.

[0019] The TCI state may be, for example, information about the QCL of the channel of interest (in other words, the Reference Signal (RS) for that channel) and another signal (e.g., another RS). The TCI state may be set (indicated) by higher layer signaling, physical layer signaling, or a combination of these.

[0020] The physical layer signaling may be, for example, Downlink Control Information (DCI).

[0021] The channel for which the TCI state or spatial relationship is set (specified) may be, for example, at least one of a downlink shared channel (Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)), a downlink control channel (Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH)), an uplink shared channel (Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)), and an uplink control channel (Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)).

[0022] In addition, the RS that has a QCL relationship with the channel may be, for example, at least one of a synchronization signal block (SSB), a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), a sounding reference signal (SRS), a tracking CSI-RS (also called a tracking reference signal (TRS)), and a QCL detection reference signal (also called a QRS).

[0023] An SSB is a signal block including at least one of a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), and a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH). An SSB may be referred to as an SS / PBCH block.

[0024] An RS of QCL type X in a TCI state may refer to an RS that has a QCL type X relationship with a certain channel / signal (its DMRS), and this RS may be called a QCL source of QCL type X in the TCI state.

[0025] (Pathloss RS) Path loss PL for each transmission power control of PUSCH, PUCCH, and SRS b,f,c (q d ) [dB] is the index q of the reference signal (RS, Pathloss Reference RS) for the downlink BWP associated with the active UL BWP b of carrier f of serving cell c d In this disclosure, the path loss reference RS, pathloss(PL)-RS, and index q d, an RS used in a path loss calculation, and an RS resource used in a path loss calculation may be interpreted as interchangeable. In the present disclosure, the terms calculate, estimate, measure, and track may be interpreted as interchangeable.

[0026] It is under consideration whether to modify the existing mechanism of higher layer filtered RSRP for path loss measurement when the path loss RS is updated by the MAC CE.

[0027] When the pathloss RS is updated by the MAC CE, the pathloss measurement based on L1-RSRP may be applied. At an available timing after the MAC CE for updating the pathloss RS, the upper layer filter RSRP may be used for the pathloss measurement, and the L1-RSRP may be used for the pathloss measurement before the upper layer filter RSRP is applied. At an available timing after the MAC CE for updating the pathloss RS, the upper layer filter RSRP may be used for the pathloss measurement, and before that timing, the upper layer filter RSRP of the previous pathloss RS may be used. Similar to the operation of Rel. 15, the upper layer filter RSRP may be used for the pathloss measurement, and the UE may track all pathloss RS candidates configured by the RRC. The maximum number of pathloss RSs configurable by the RRC may depend on the UE capability. If the maximum number of pathloss RSs configurable by the RRC is X, X or less pathloss RS candidates may be configured by the RRC, and the pathloss RS may be selected by the MAC CE from among the configured pathloss RS candidates. The maximum number of pathloss RSs configurable by the RRC may be 4, 8, 16, 64, etc.

[0028] In this disclosure, upper layer filtered RSRP, filtered RSRP, and layer 3 filtered RSRP may be interpreted as interchangeable.

[0029] (default TCI state / default spatial relationship / default PL-RS) In the RRC connected mode, in both cases where the TCI information in DCI (higher layer parameter TCI-PresentInDCI) is set to "enabled" and where the TCI information in DCI is not set, if the time offset between the reception of DL DCI (DCI that schedules PDSCH) and the corresponding PDSCH (PDSCH scheduled by the DCI) is smaller than a threshold (timeDurationForQCL) (applicable condition, first condition), in the case of non-cross-carrier scheduling, the TCI state of the PDSCH (default TCI state) may be the TCI state of the lowest CORESET ID in the latest slot in the active DL BWP of the CC (of the specific UL signal). Otherwise, the TCI state of the PDSCH (default TCI state) may be the TCI state of the lowest TCI state ID of the PDSCH in the active DL BWP of the scheduled CC.

[0030] In Rel.15, separate MAC CEs are required for activation / deactivation of PUCCH spatial relation and activation / deactivation of SRS spatial relation. PUSCH spatial relation follows SRS spatial relation.

[0031] In Rel.16, at least one of the MAC CE for activation / deactivation of the PUCCH spatial relationship and the MAC CE for activation / deactivation of the SRS spatial relationship may not be used.

[0032] If neither the spatial relationship nor the PL-RS for the PUCCH is configured in FR2 (applicable condition, second condition), the default assumptions of the spatial relationship and the PL-RS for the PUCCH (default spatial relationship and default PL-RS) are applied. If neither the spatial relationship nor the PL-RS for the SRS (SRS resource for the SRS, or SRS resource corresponding to the SRI in DCI format 0_1 ​​that schedules the PUSCH) is configured in FR2 (applicable condition, second condition), the default assumptions of the spatial relationship and the PL-RS for the PUSCH and the SRS scheduled by DCI format 0_1 ​​(default spatial relationship and default PL-RS) are applied.

[0033] If a CORESET is configured in an active DL BWP on the CC (condition applicable), the default spatial relationship and default PL-RS may be the TCI state or QCL assumption of the CORESET with the lowest CORESET ID in the active DL BWP. If a CORESET is not configured in an active DL BWP on the CC, the default spatial relationship and default PL-RS may be the active TCI state with the lowest PDSCH ID in the active DL BWP.

[0034] In Rel.15, the spatial relationship of PUSCH scheduled by DCI format 0_0 follows the spatial relationship of the PUCCH resource with the lowest PUCCH resource ID among the active spatial relationships of PUCCH on the same CC. The network needs to update the PUCCH spatial relationship on all SCells even if no PUCCH is transmitted on the SCell.

[0035] In Rel.16, PUCCH configuration is not required for a PUSCH scheduled by DCI format 0_0. If there is no active PUCCH spatial relationship or no PUCCH resource on the active UL BWP in the CC for a PUSCH scheduled by DCI format 0_0 (applicable condition, second condition), the default spatial relationship and default PL-RS are applied to the PUSCH.

[0036] The application condition of the default spatial relationship / default PL-RS for SRS may include a default beam path loss enable information element for SRS (upper layer parameter enableDefaultBeamPlForSRS) being set to valid. The application condition of the default spatial relationship / default PL-RS for PUCCH may include a default beam path loss enable information element for PUCCH (upper layer parameter enableDefaultBeamPlForPUCCH) being set to valid. The application condition of the default spatial relationship / default PL-RS for PUSCH scheduled by DCI format 0_0 may include a default beam path loss enable information element for PUSCH scheduled by DCI format 0_0 (upper layer parameter enableDefaultBeamPlForPUSCH0_0) being set to valid.

[0037] The above threshold may also be referred to as time duration for QCL, "timeDurationForQCL", "Threshold", "Threshold for offset between a DCI indicating a TCI state and a PDSCH scheduled by the DCI", "Threshold-Sched-Offset", schedule offset threshold, scheduling offset threshold, etc.

[0038] (Multi-TRP) In NR, it is considered that one or more transmission / reception points (TRPs) (multi-TRPs (MTRPs)) will perform DL transmission to a UE using one or more panels (multi-panels). It is also considered that a UE will perform UL transmission to one or more TRPs using one or more panels.

[0039] Note that multiple TRPs may correspond to the same cell identifier (cell identifier (ID)) or different cell IDs. The cell ID may be a physical cell ID or a virtual cell ID.

[0040] Multi-TRP (e.g., TRP#1, #2) may be connected by ideal / non-ideal backhaul to exchange information, data, etc. Each TRP of the multi-TRP may transmit a different code word (CW) and a different layer. Non-Coherent Joint Transmission (NCJT) may be used as a form of multi-TRP transmission.

[0041] In the NCJT, for example, TRP#1 performs modulation mapping and layer mapping on a first codeword to transmit a first PDSCH using a first number of layers (e.g., two layers) with a first precoding, and TRP#2 performs modulation mapping and layer mapping on a second codeword to transmit a second PDSCH using a second number of layers (e.g., two layers) with a second precoding.

[0042] In addition, multiple PDSCHs (multi-PDSCHs) that are NCJTed may be defined as partially or completely overlapping with respect to at least one of the time and frequency domains. That is, the first PDSCH from the first TRP and the second PDSCH from the second TRP may overlap with at least one of the time and frequency resources.

[0043] The first PDSCH and the second PDSCH may be assumed to be not quasi-co-located (QCL). Reception of multiple PDSCHs may be interpreted as simultaneous reception of PDSCHs that are not of a certain QCL type (e.g., QCL type D).

[0044] Multiple PDSCHs from multiple TRPs (which may be referred to as multiple PDSCHs) may be scheduled using one DCI (single DCI, single PDCCH) (single-master mode, single-DCI based multi-TRP). Multiple PDSCHs from multiple TRPs may be scheduled using multiple DCIs (multiple DCI, multiple PDCCHs) respectively (multi-master mode, multi-DCI based multi-TRP).

[0045] Such a multi-TRP scenario allows for more flexible transmission control using channels with better quality.

[0046] In order to support intra-cell (having the same cell ID) and inter-cell (having different cell IDs) multi-TRP transmission based on multiple PDCCHs, in the RRC configuration information for linking multiple pairs of PDCCHs and PDSCHs having multiple TRPs, one control resource set (CORESET) in the PDCCH configuration information (PDCCH-Config) may correspond to one TRP.

[0047] (unified / common TCI framework) The unified TCI framework allows UL and DL channels to be controlled by a common framework. Instead of specifying the TCI state or spatial relationship for each channel as in Rel.15, the unified TCI framework may specify a common beam and apply it to all UL and DL channels, or a common beam for UL may apply to all UL channels and a common beam for DL ​​may apply to all DL channels.

[0048] One common beam for both DL and UL, or one common beam for DL ​​and one common beam for UL (total of two common beams) are considered.

[0049] The UE may assume the same TCI state for UL and DL (joint TCI state, joint TCI state pool).

[0050] In the example of Figure 1, the RRC configures multiple TCI states for both DL and UL (a joint common TCI state pool). Each of the multiple TCI states may be SSB, CSI-RS, or SRS. The MAC CE may activate a portion of the configured multiple TCI states. The DCI may indicate at least one of the activated multiple TCI states.

[0051] The UL and DL default beams may be aligned via MAC CE based beam management. The default TCI state of the PDSCH may be updated to match the default UL beam (spatial relationship).

[0052] The DCI based beam management may indicate a common beam / unified TCI state from the same TCI state pool for both UL and DL (joint common TCI state pool). M (>1) TCI states may be activated by the MAC CE. The UL / DL DCI may select one out of M active TCI states. The selected TCI state may be applied to both UL and DL channels / RS.

[0053] The UE may assume different TCI states for each of the UL and DL (separate TCI state, separate TCI state pool, UL separate TCI state pool and DL separate TCI state pool, UL common TCI state pool and DL common TCI state pool).

[0054] In the example of FIG. 2, the RRC (parameters, information elements) may configure multiple TCI states (pools) for each of the UL and DL channels.

[0055] The MAC CE may select (activate) one or more (eg, multiple) TCI states (sets) for each of the UL and DL channels. The MAC CE may activate two sets of TCI states.

[0056] The DL DCI may select (indicate) one or more (e.g., one) TCI states. This TCI state may apply to one or more DL channels. The DL channel may be PDCCH / PDSCH / CSI-RS. The UE may determine the TCI state for each DL channel / RS using the Rel.16 TCI state behavior (TCI framework).

[0057] The UL DCI may select (indicate) one or more (e.g., one) TCI states, which may apply to one or more UL channels, which may be PUSCH / SRS / PUCCH.

[0058] The following use cases 0, 1, and 2 are being considered as use cases for the separate common TCI state pool.

[0059] [Use case 0] The UE uses different UL beams due to the Maximum Permitted Exposure (MPE).

[0060] In the example of FIG. 3, the UL on panel #1 experiences an MPE problem and the UE uses panel #2 for the UL.

[0061] [Use case 1] The UE uses different UL beams due to the UL signal strength.

[0062] In the example of Figure 4, the distance between the UE and TRP (cell, base station) #1 is longer than the distance between the UE and TRP #2. Here, the L1-RSRP of panel #1 is higher than the L1-RSRP of panel #2, and the UL transmission power of panel #2 is higher than the UL transmission power of panel #1. The UE uses panel #1 for DL ​​from TRP #1 and panel #2 for UL to TRP #2.

[0063] [Use case 2] The UE uses different UL beams due to UL load balancing.

[0064] In the example of Figure 5, the L1-RSRP of panel #1 is higher than the L1-RSRP of panel #2, and the UL load of panel #2 is lower than the UL load of panel #1. The UE uses panel #1 for DL ​​from TRP #1 and panel #2 for UL to TRP #2.

[0065] It is expected that more scenarios with different requirements will be considered, such as multi-TRP transmission, high speed train (HST) transmission, inter-cell mobility during which a UE may connect to two cells, etc., the common beam for each TRP, cell, may be different.

[0066] In this case, the UE may be equipped with multiple panels for FR2, where the common beam for each UE panel may be different.

[0067] As in the example of FIG. 6, in a moving object such as a bus / train / car, multiple UEs are assumed, which may increase the PDCCH overhead due to individual signaling of TCI status.

[0068] In the unified / common TCI state, to avoid the inconsistency between the UE and the base station in updating the PDCCH beam, the UE may apply the beam indication after sending the HARQ-ACK corresponding to the DCI indication, which means that the base station needs to transmit the next two PDCCHs. [PDCCH transmission 1] Common beam update. [PDCCH transmission 2] PDSCH scheduling.

[0069] If the overhead of the PDCCH increases, this may result in degradation of throughput.

[0070] Therefore, the present inventors came up with the idea of ​​a method for indicating the TCI state.

[0071] Hereinafter, embodiments according to the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Wireless communication methods according to the embodiments may be applied independently or in combination.

[0072] In the present disclosure, "A / B / C" and "at least one of A, B, and C" may be read as interchangeable. In the present disclosure, cell, CC, carrier, BWP, DL BWP, UL BWP, active DL BWP, active UL BWP, and band may be read as interchangeable. In the present disclosure, index, ID, indicator, and resource ID may be read as interchangeable. In the present disclosure, support, control, can be controlled, operate, and can operate may be read as interchangeable.

[0073] In the present disclosure, the terms configure, activate, update, indicate, enable, specify, and select may be read as interchangeable.

[0074] In the present disclosure, MAC CE and activation / deactivation command may be read as interchangeable.

[0075] In the present disclosure, the higher layer signaling may be, for example, any one of Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, Medium Access Control (MAC) signaling, broadcast information, etc., or a combination thereof. In the present disclosure, RRC, RRC signaling, RRC parameters, higher layer, higher layer parameters, RRC information elements (IEs), and RRC messages may be read as interchangeable.

[0076] The MAC signaling may be, for example, a MAC Control Element (MAC CE), a MAC Protocol Data Unit (PDU), etc. The broadcast information may be, for example, a Master Information Block (MIB), a System Information Block (SIB), Remaining Minimum System Information (RMSI), Other System Information (OSI), etc.

[0077] In the present disclosure, beam, spatial domain filter, spatial setting, TCI state, UL TCI state, unified TCI state, unified beam, common TCI state, common beam, TCI assumption, QCL assumption, QCL parameter, spatial domain receive filter, UE spatial domain receive filter, UE receive beam, DL beam, DL receive beam, DL precoding, DL precoder, DL-RS, RS of QCL type D in TCI state / QCL assumption, RS of QCL type A in TCI state / QCL assumption, spatial relationship, spatial domain transmit filter, UE spatial domain transmit filter, UE transmit beam, UL beam, UL transmit beam, UL precoding, UL precoder, PL-RS, may be read as interchangeable. In the present disclosure, QCL type X-RS, DL-RS associated with QCL type X, DL-RS with QCL type X, source of DL-RS, SSB, CSI-RS, SRS, may be read as interchangeable.

[0078] UL DCI, DCI for scheduling a UL channel (PUSCH), and DCI format 0_x (x=0, 1, 2, ...) may be interchangeable. DL DCI, DCI for scheduling a DL channel (PDSCH), and DCI format 1_x (x=0, 1, 2, ...) may be interchangeable.

[0079] In the present disclosure, HARQ-ACK information, ACK, and NACK may be interpreted as interchangeable.

[0080] In the present disclosure, single TRP, single TRP system, single TRP transmission, and single PDSCH may be interchangeable. In the present disclosure, multi-TRP, multi-TRP system, multi-TRP transmission, and multi-PDSCH may be interchangeable. In the present disclosure, single DCI, single PDCCH, multi-TRP based on single DCI, and activating two TCI states on at least one TCI codepoint may be interchangeable.

[0081] In the present disclosure, a single TRP, a channel using a single TRP, a channel using one TCI state / spatial relationship, multi-TRP not being enabled by RRC / DCI, multiple TCI states / spatial relationships not being enabled by RRC / DCI, a CORESETPoolIndex value of 1 not being set for any CORESET, and no code point in the TCI field being mapped to two TCI states may be read as interchangeable.

[0082] In the present disclosure, multi-TRP, channel using multi-TRP, channel using multiple TCI states / spatial relationships, multi-TRP being enabled by RRC / DCI, multiple TCI states / spatial relationships being enabled by RRC / DCI, and at least one of multi-TRP based on a single DCI and multi-TRP based on a multiple DCI may be read as mutually interchangeable. In the present disclosure, multi-TRP based on a multiple DCI, and a CORESETPoolIndex value of 1 being set for CORESET may be read as mutually interchangeable. In the present disclosure, multi-TRP based on a single DCI, and at least one code point of a TCI field being mapped to two TCI states may be read as mutually interchangeable.

[0083] In the present disclosure, TRP1 may correspond to CORESET pool index=0 or may correspond to the first of two TCI states corresponding to one code point in the TCI field. TRP1 may correspond to CORESET pool index=1 or may correspond to the second of two TCI states corresponding to one code point in the TCI field.

[0084] In the present disclosure, the link direction, downlink (DL), uplink (UL), and one of UL and DL may be interpreted as interchangeable.

[0085] In the present disclosure, the terms pool, set, group, and list may be interpreted as interchangeable.

[0086] In this disclosure, a common beam, a unified TCI state, a beam applicable to DL and UL, a beam applied to multiple channels, and PL-RS may be interpreted as interchangeable.

[0087] (Wireless communication method) The UE may be configured with multiple TCI states (pools) applicable to multiple channels / RSs by an RRC information element (TCI state information). The UE may be configured with a TCI state pool for both UL and DL (joint TCI state pool), or may be configured with a TCI state pool for UL and a TCI state pool for DL ​​(separate TCI state pool). Multiple TCI states in the TCI state pool may be activated by a MAC CE (TCI state information). The DCI may apply one TCI state indicated by the DCI among multiple configured / activated TCI states to one or more UL / DL channels / RSs (signals).

[0088] <First embodiment> A group common PDCCH may indicate a TCI state among the common TCI states to one or more UEs.

[0089] If corresponding higher layer signaling is configured, a new DCI field for TCI status may be introduced into the existing group common DCI (DCI formats 2_0, 2_1, 2_2, 2_3).

[0090] A new DCI format may be introduced to indicate a TCI state among common TCI states to one or more UEs. The new DCI format (e.g., DCI format 2_x) may have a TCI state field. If corresponding higher layer signaling is configured, the UE may monitor the new DCI format.

[0091] The upper layer configuration of the unified TCI state may comply with at least one of the following configurations 1 and 2. [Setting 1] UE-specific. The same value of the TCI field may indicate different TCI states for multiple UEs. Multiple UE-specific TCI states (lists) may be configured for each of multiple UEs. Multiple TCI states may be mapped to multiple values ​​of the TCI field, respectively. Each UE may use the TCI state corresponding to the value of the TCI field among the multiple configured TCI states for transmission / reception of a specific channel / RS.

[0092] In the example of Figure 7, TCI states #1-1 to #1-8, which correspond to TCI field values ​​000 to 111, respectively, may be set for UE #1. TCI states #2-1 to #2-8, which correspond to TCI field values ​​000 to 111, respectively, may be set for UE #2. TCI states #3-1 to #3-8, which correspond to TCI field values ​​000 to 111, respectively, may be set for UE #3. [Setting 2] Common to all UEs. The same value of the TCI field may indicate the same TCI state for multiple UEs. Multiple common TCI states (lists) may be configured for each of multiple UEs. Multiple TCI states may be mapped to multiple values ​​of the TCI field, respectively. Each UE may use the TCI state corresponding to the value of the TCI field among the multiple configured TCI states for transmission / reception of a specific channel / RS.

[0093] In the example of FIG. 8, TCI states #1-1 to #1-8, which correspond to TCI field values ​​000 to 111, respectively, may be set for UEs #1 to #3.

[0094] If the UE detects a group-common DCI indicating a TCI state, the UE may update the TCI assumption after a certain time from the detection of the group-common DCI (FIG. 9A). The detection of the group-common DCI and the last symbol of the group-common DCI may be interpreted as interchangeable.

[0095] If the UE detects a group-wide DCI indicating the TCI state, the UE may update the TCI assumption after a certain time from the transmission of the HARQ-ACK information (FIG. 9B), where the UE may update the TCI assumption if the HARQ-ACK information is an ACK.

[0096] The specific time may be, for example, K symbols, where K may be specified in the specification, configured by higher layers, or reported by the UE as a UE capability.

[0097] According to the above first embodiment, it is possible to reduce the overhead of indicating the TCI status to one or more UEs.

[0098] <Second embodiment> There is a possibility that some UEs may fail to receive the group-common DCI, which may cause misalignment of TCI assumptions between multiple UEs or between the UE and the base station.

[0099] In the example of Fig. 10A, a group-common DCI for updating the unified TCI state for both UL and DL for UE #1 to #6 is transmitted from UE #1 to #6. If UE #1 to #6 normally receives the group-common DCI, the beam is updated to the instructed unified TCI state after the instruction by the group-common DCI.

[0100] In the example of Fig. 10B, among UE#1 to #6, UE#3-#6 that have normally received the group-common DCI update their beams to the instructed unified TCI state after being instructed by the group-common DCI. Among UE#1 to #6, UE#1-#2 that have not normally received the group-common DCI do not update their beams.

[0101] If the TCI status is indicated in the group-common PDCCH (DCI), each UE may transmit HARQ-ACK information (feedback information) on each PUCCH / PUSCH resource according to the group-common DCI. The HARQ-ACK information may indicate successful (ACK) or unsuccessful (NACK) reception / detection / decoding of the group-common DCI. The PUCCH / PUSCH resource may follow at least one of the following resources 1 and 2:

[0102] [Resource 1] If the group-common DCI has at least one of a PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) field and a HARQ timing indicator field, the PUCCH resource and slot may be determined by the field.

[0103] [Resource 2] If the group-common DCI does not have a PRI field, the PUCCH resource may be determined by a PUCCH resource set and a PUCCH resource determination method before RRC connection establishment (when no dedicated PUCCH resource is provided), in which the UE determines a PUCCH resource set based on parameters provided by the system information (SIB1), and determines a PUCCH resource from the PUCCH resource set based on a PDCCH (PRI field / first control channel element (CCE) index).

[0104] The HARQ timing indicator field may or may not be included in the group-common DCI. If the HARQ timing indicator field is not included in the group-common DCI, the HARQ timing may be specified in the specification, configured by higher layers, or reported by the UE as a UE capability.

[0105] According to the above first embodiment, even if reception of the group common PDCCH fails, the UE and the base station can share the same understanding of the TCI state.

[0106] <Third embodiment> The HARQ resource for the group common PDCCH having the TCI indication may be according to at least one of the following aspects 3-1 to 3-4.

[0107] <<Aspect 3-1>> UE-specific PUCCH / PUSCH resources Aspect 3-1 may follow at least one of the following aspects 3-1-1 and 3-1-2.

[0108] [Aspect 3-1-1] The PRI / HARQ timing indicator may have multiple fields for multiple UEs.

[0109] [Aspect 3-1-2] The PRI / HARQ timing indicator may comprise one field that is used for multiple UEs.

[0110] For example, the higher layer configuration of the PUCCH resource may be UE-specific. The same PRI field may indicate different PUCCH resources for multiple UEs. Multiple UE-specific PUCCH resources (lists) may be configured for each of multiple UEs. The multiple PUCCH resources may be respectively mapped to multiple values ​​of the PRI field. Each UE may use the PUCCH resource corresponding to the value of the PRI field among the multiple configured PUCCH resources for transmitting HARQ-ACK information.

[0111] 11, PUCCU resources #1-1 to #1-8 corresponding to PRI field values ​​000 to 111, respectively, may be configured for UE #1. PUCCU resources #2-1 to #2-8 corresponding to PRI field values ​​000 to 111, respectively, may be configured for UE #2. PUCCU resources #3-1 to #3-8 corresponding to PRI field values ​​000 to 111, respectively, may be configured for UE #3.

[0112] The mapping between PRI and PUCCH resource lists for multiple UEs may be configured by higher layers.

[0113] The new DCI format may have multiple fields of PRI / HARQ timing indicator, each of which may indicate HARQ resources for one UE according to the C-RNTI order, or each of which may indicate HARQ resources for multiple UEs according to RRC.

[0114] <<Aspect 3-2>> UE Common PUCCH / PUSCH Resources Aspect 3-2 may follow at least one of the following aspects 3-2-1 and 3-2-2.

[0115] [Aspect 3-2-1] If a group-common DCI with a TCI indication is detected, the UE may transmit HARQ-ACK information in the PUCCH resource. Multiple UEs may share the same PUCCH resource. Multiple common PUCCH resources (lists) may be configured for each of the multiple UEs. The multiple PUCCH resources may be respectively mapped to multiple values ​​of the PRI field. Each UE may use a PUCCH resource corresponding to the value of the PRI field among the multiple configured PUCCH resources to transmit HARQ-ACK information.

[0116] In the example of FIG. 12, PUCCH resources #1-1 to #1-8, which correspond to PRI field values ​​000 to 111, respectively, may be configured for UEs #1 to #3.

[0117] If the group-common DCI with TCI indication is detected and successfully decoded, the UE may transmit PUCCH with ACK. The UE may not feed back NACK. If the network (NW, e.g., base station) distinguishes PUCCH / PUSCH from different UEs, the NW may consider no beam update for UEs that do not feed back (due to failure to detect NACK or group-common DCI). If common PUCCH / PUSCH resources are assigned to multiple UEs, the NW may distinguish PUCCH / PUSCH from different UEs by power domain / time domain / frequency domain / code domain (sequence, cyclic shift).

[0118] If the group-common DCI with TCI indication is detected but not successfully decoded, the UE may transmit a PUCCH with a NACK. If the NW receives a NACK, the NW may recognize that at least one UE did not successfully receive the group-common DCI. If no NACK feedback is received by the NW, the case of failure to receive the group-common DCI is not recognized by the NW.

[0119] In the example of Fig. 13A, UEs #1 to #4 are assigned PUCCH resources that overlap in the time domain and the frequency domain. UEs that fail to successfully decode the group-common DCI transmit NACKs using PUCCH format 0. As in Fig. 13B, the base station can detect that at least one UE has sent a NACK by detecting the received power in the PUCCH resources (e.g., the received power exceeds a threshold).

[0120] "Aspect 3-3" If the UE detects a group-common DCI, the UE may transmit a PUCCH based on example 3-2.

[0121] If the PUCCH resources for multiple UEs overlap, if a UE fails to detect a group-common DCI, it is difficult for the NW to recognize it.

[0122] For the NW, whether the UE has failed to detect the group-common DCI is more important information than whether the UE has detected the group-common DCI. How the NW recognizes that the UE has failed to detect the group-common DCI is an issue.

[0123] Possible occasions (monitoring occasions, PDCCH monitoring occasions) / search spaces of group-common DCI that indicate the TCI status for multiple UEs may be configured / indicated by DCI / higher layers. The UE may monitor the possible occasions / search spaces of group-common DCI. If the UE successfully detects the group-common DCI, the UE may not transmit a PUCCH. If the UE cannot successfully detect the group-common DCI, the UE may transmit a PUCCH based on aspect 3-2. Only UEs that fail to detect the group-common DCI may transmit a PUCCH, and the base station may recognize that at least one UE fails to receive the DCI.

[0124] In the example of Figure 14, occasions #1 and #2 are possible occasions / search spaces of group-common DCI indicating TCI status. If a UE successfully receives group-common DCI in occasion #1 and fails to receive group-common DCI in occasion #2, it transmits PUCCH in PUCCH resource, which is not indicated by group-common DCI. The PUCCH resource may be configured by higher layers or may be determined from the PUCCH resource set for before RRC connection establishment.

[0125] "Aspect 3-4" The problem is whether the NW can distinguish the PUCCH feedback from different UEs and how the NW retransmits the group-common DCI for beam updating.

[0126] The NW may follow either of the following aspects 3-4-1 and 3-4-2.

[0127] [Aspect 3-4-1] If the NW cannot distinguish PUCCH feedback with NACK from different UEs, the NW may retransmit the same group-common DCI to all UEs to which the group-common DCI is to be transmitted. In this case, the fourth embodiment described later may be applied to indicate to all UEs that the PUCCH has been successfully received.

[0128] [Aspect 3-4-2] If the NW can distinguish PUCCH feedback with NACK from different UEs, the NW may recognize UEs that fail to decode the DCI. The NW may then follow at least one of the following actions 1 to 3.

[0129] [[Movement 1]] The same group-common DCI for TCI indication may be retransmitted. For example, to support soft combining, the first transmission and retransmission of the group-common DCI may have the same HARQ process number (HPN) indication. A UE that successfully receives the first DCI (first transmission) may not be required to monitor the retransmission of the DCI. The monitoring occasion for retransmission may be specified in the specification or may be configured by a higher layer. The DCI may have a field indicating whether it is the first transmission or a retransmission. In the example of FIG. 15, a UE that successfully receives the first DCI may ignore the retransmitted DCI.

[0130] [[Movement 2]] The NW may retransmit the group-wide DCI with a different TCI indication. For example, the retransmission may be a TCI indication only for UEs that fail to receive the initial transmission. There may be no TCI status update for UEs that successfully receive the initial transmission.

[0131] [[Operation 3]] The NW may retransmit the UE-specific DCI only to the UEs that failed to receive the initial transmission.

[0132] According to the above third embodiment, even if reception of the group common PDCCH fails, it is possible to suppress discrepancies in recognition of the TCI state between the UE and the base station.

[0133] <Fourth embodiment> After the UE transmits HARQ-ACK information for the group common DCI including the TCI field, the UE receives a response to the HARQ-ACK information, and after a specific time from receiving the response (e.g., the last symbol of the response), the UE may update the TCI assumption. As in the example of FIG. 16, the specific time may be K symbols. K may be specified in the specification, may be configured by a higher layer, or may be reported by the UE as a UE capability. The response may follow at least one of the following responses 1 and 2.

[0134] [Response 1] The response from the base station may be a DCI with a CRC scrambled by the x-RNTI. This DCI may be transmitted in an individually configured search space / CORESET or in any search space / CORESET. The x-RNTI may be a C-RNTI or an RNTI (individual RNTI, individually configured RNTI) configured for multiple UEs for group based beam indication.

[0135] [Response 2] The response from the base station may be transmitted by dedicated physical resources (physical resources set individually). The dedicated physical resources may be similar to a Physical HARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) in LTE. The dedicated physical resources may be common to UEs. The same physical resources may be set for multiple UEs. The dedicated physical resources may be UE-specific (UE-specific). Different physical resources may be set for each UE.

[0136] According to the above fourth embodiment, even if reception of the group common PDCCH fails, it is possible to suppress discrepancies in recognition of the TCI state between the UE and the base station.

[0137] <Fifth embodiment> A UE capability corresponding to at least one function (feature) in the first to fourth embodiments may be defined. If the UE reports this UE capability, the UE may perform the corresponding function. If the UE reports this UE capability and a higher layer parameter corresponding to this function is configured, the UE may perform the corresponding function. A higher layer parameter (RRC information element) corresponding to this function may be defined. If this higher layer parameter is configured, the UE may perform the corresponding function.

[0138] The UE capability may indicate whether the UE supports this feature.

[0139] According to the above fifth embodiment, the UE can realize at least one of the above functions while maintaining compatibility with existing specifications.

[0140] (Wireless communication system) A configuration of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described below. In this wireless communication system, communication is performed using any one of the wireless communication methods according to the above embodiments of the present disclosure or a combination of these methods.

[0141] 17 is a diagram showing an example of a schematic configuration of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment. The wireless communication system 1 may be a system that realizes communication using Long Term Evolution (LTE), 5th generation mobile communication system New Radio (5G NR), or the like, which are specified by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).

[0142] Furthermore, the wireless communication system 1 may support dual connectivity between a plurality of Radio Access Technologies (RATs) (Multi-RAT Dual Connectivity (MR-DC)). MR-DC may include dual connectivity between LTE (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA)) and NR (E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC)), dual connectivity between NR and LTE (NR-E-UTRA Dual Connectivity (NE-DC)), and the like.

[0143] In EN-DC, the LTE (E-UTRA) base station (eNB) is the master node (MN) and the NR base station (gNB) is the secondary node (SN). In NE-DC, the NR base station (gNB) is the MN and the LTE (E-UTRA) base station (eNB) is the SN.

[0144] The wireless communication system 1 may support dual connectivity between multiple base stations in the same RAT (for example, dual connectivity in which both the MN and the SN are NR base stations (gNBs) (NR-NR Dual Connectivity (NN-DC))).

[0145] The wireless communication system 1 may include a base station 11 that forms a macrocell C1 with a relatively wide coverage, and base stations 12 (12a-12c) that are arranged in the macrocell C1 and form a small cell C2 that is narrower than the macrocell C1. A user terminal 20 may be located in at least one of the cells. The arrangement and number of each cell and user terminal 20 are not limited to the embodiment shown in the figure. Hereinafter, when there is no need to distinguish between the base stations 11 and 12, they will be collectively referred to as a base station 10.

[0146] The user terminal 20 may be connected to at least one of the multiple base stations 10. The user terminal 20 may utilize at least one of carrier aggregation (CA) using multiple component carriers (CC) and dual connectivity (DC).

[0147] Each CC may be included in at least one of a first frequency band (Frequency Range 1 (FR1)) and a second frequency band (Frequency Range 2 (FR2)). The macro cell C1 may be included in FR1, and the small cell C2 may be included in FR2. For example, FR1 may be a frequency band of 6 GHz or less (sub-6 GHz), and FR2 may be a frequency band above 24 GHz (above-24 GHz). Note that the frequency bands and definitions of FR1 and FR2 are not limited to these, and for example, FR1 may correspond to a frequency band higher than FR2.

[0148] Furthermore, the user terminal 20 may perform communication in each CC using at least one of Time Division Duplex (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD).

[0149] The multiple base stations 10 may be connected by wire (e.g., optical fiber conforming to Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), X2 interface, etc.) or wirelessly (e.g., NR communication). For example, when NR communication is used as a backhaul between the base stations 11 and 12, the base station 11 corresponding to the upper station may be called an Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) donor, and the base station 12 corresponding to the relay station (relay) may be called an IAB node.

[0150] The base station 10 may be connected to the core network 30 directly or via another base station 10. The core network 30 may include at least one of, for example, an Evolved Packet Core (EPC), a 5G Core Network (5GCN), a Next Generation Core (NGC), and the like.

[0151] The user terminal 20 may be a terminal compatible with at least one of communication methods such as LTE, LTE-A, and 5G.

[0152] In the wireless communication system 1, a wireless access scheme based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) may be used. For example, in at least one of the downlink (DL) and the uplink (UL), Cyclic Prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM), Discrete Fourier Transform Spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), etc. may be used.

[0153] The radio access scheme may be called a waveform. In the wireless communication system 1, other radio access schemes (for example, other single-carrier transmission schemes, other multi-carrier transmission schemes) may be used as the UL and DL radio access schemes.

[0154] In the wireless communication system 1, a downlink shared channel (Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)) shared by each user terminal 20, a broadcast channel (Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH)), a downlink control channel (Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH)), etc. may be used as a downlink channel.

[0155] In addition, in the wireless communication system 1, an uplink shared channel (Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)) shared by each user terminal 20, an uplink control channel (Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)), a random access channel (Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH)), etc. may be used as an uplink channel.

[0156] The PDSCH transmits user data, higher layer control information, a System Information Block (SIB), etc. The PUSCH may transmit user data, higher layer control information, etc. Furthermore, the PBCH may transmit a Master Information Block (MIB).

[0157] Lower layer control information may be transmitted by the PDCCH. The lower layer control information may include, for example, Downlink Control Information (DCI) including scheduling information of at least one of the PDSCH and the PUSCH.

[0158] In addition, DCI for scheduling PDSCH may be called DL assignment, DL DCI, etc., and DCI for scheduling PUSCH may be called UL grant, UL DCI, etc. In addition, PDSCH may be replaced with DL data, and PUSCH may be replaced with UL data.

[0159] A control resource set (CORESET) and a search space may be used to detect the PDCCH. The CORESET corresponds to resources to search for DCI. The search space corresponds to a search region and a search method for PDCCH candidates. One CORESET may be associated with one or multiple search spaces. The UE may monitor a CORESET associated with a certain search space based on the search space configuration.

[0160] One search space may correspond to PDCCH candidates corresponding to one or more aggregation levels. One or more search spaces may be called a search space set. Note that the terms "search space," "search space set," "search space setting," "search space set setting," "CORESET," and "CORESET setting" in the present disclosure may be read as interchangeable terms.

[0161] The PUCCH may transmit uplink control information (UCI) including at least one of channel state information (CSI), delivery acknowledgement information (which may be called, for example, Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK), ACK / NACK, etc.), and a scheduling request (SR). The PRACH may transmit a random access preamble for establishing a connection with a cell.

[0162] In the present disclosure, a downlink, an uplink, etc. may be expressed without adding "link." Also, various channels may be expressed without adding "Physical" to the beginning of the channels.

[0163] In the wireless communication system 1, a synchronization signal (SS), a downlink reference signal (DL-RS), etc. may be transmitted. In the wireless communication system 1, as the DL-RS, a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a positioning reference signal (PRS), a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS), etc. may be transmitted.

[0164] The synchronization signal may be, for example, at least one of a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) and a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS). A signal block including the SS (PSS, SSS) and the PBCH (and the DMRS for the PBCH) may be called an SS / PBCH block, an SS Block (SSB), or the like. In addition, the SS, SSB, and the like may also be called a reference signal.

[0165] Furthermore, in the wireless communication system 1, a sounding reference signal (SRS), a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), etc. may be transmitted as an uplink reference signal (UL-RS). Note that the DMRS may be called a user equipment specific reference signal (UE-specific reference signal).

[0166] (base station) 18 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a base station according to an embodiment. The base station 10 includes a control unit 110, a transceiver unit 120, a transceiver antenna 130, and a transmission line interface 140. Note that one or more of each of the control unit 110, the transceiver unit 120, the transceiver antenna 130, and the transmission line interface 140 may be provided.

[0167] In this example, the functional blocks of the characteristic parts of the present embodiment are mainly shown, and the base station 10 may be assumed to have other functional blocks necessary for wireless communication. Some of the processes of each unit described below may be omitted.

[0168] The control unit 110 performs overall control of the base station 10. The control unit 110 can be configured with a controller, a control circuit, and the like that are explained based on common understanding in the technical field to which the present disclosure relates.

[0169] The control unit 110 may control signal generation, scheduling (e.g., resource allocation, mapping), etc. The control unit 110 may control transmission and reception using the transmission and reception unit 120, the transmission and reception antenna 130, and the transmission path interface 140, measurement, etc. The control unit 110 may generate data, control information, sequences, etc. to be transmitted as signals, and transfer them to the transmission and reception unit 120. The control unit 110 may perform call processing (setting, release, etc.) of communication channels, status management of the base station 10, management of radio resources, etc.

[0170] The transceiver unit 120 may include a baseband unit 121, a radio frequency (RF) unit 122, and a measurement unit 123. The baseband unit 121 may include a transmission processing unit 1211 and a reception processing unit 1212. The transceiver unit 120 may be configured with a transmitter / receiver, an RF circuit, a baseband circuit, a filter, a phase shifter, a measurement circuit, a transceiver circuit, etc., which are described based on common understanding in the technical field related to the present disclosure.

[0171] The transmitting / receiving unit 120 may be configured as an integrated transmitting / receiving unit, or may be configured from a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The transmitting unit may be configured from a transmission processing unit 1211 and an RF unit 122. The receiving unit may be configured from a reception processing unit 1212, an RF unit 122, and a measurement unit 123.

[0172] The transmitting / receiving antenna 130 can be composed of an antenna described based on common understanding in the technical field to which the present disclosure pertains, such as an array antenna.

[0173] The transceiver 120 may transmit the above-mentioned downlink channel, synchronization signal, downlink reference signal, etc. The transceiver 120 may receive the above-mentioned uplink channel, uplink reference signal, etc.

[0174] The transceiver 120 may form at least one of a transmission beam and a reception beam using digital beamforming (eg, precoding), analog beamforming (eg, phase rotation), or the like.

[0175] The transceiver 120 (transmission processing unit 1211) may perform Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer processing, Radio Link Control (RLC) layer processing (e.g., RLC retransmission control), Medium Access Control (MAC) layer processing (e.g., HARQ retransmission control), etc. on data, control information, etc. obtained from the control unit 110, and generate a bit string to be transmitted.

[0176] The transceiver 120 (transmission processing unit 1211) may perform transmission processing such as channel coding (which may include error correction coding), modulation, mapping, filtering, Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) processing (if necessary), Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) processing, precoding, and digital-to-analog conversion on the bit string to be transmitted, and output a baseband signal.

[0177] The transceiver unit 120 (RF unit 122) may perform modulation to a radio frequency band, filtering, amplification, and the like on the baseband signal, and transmit the radio frequency band signal via the transceiver antenna .

[0178] On the other hand, the transceiver unit 120 (RF unit 122) may perform amplification, filtering, demodulation to a baseband signal, etc. on the radio frequency signal received by the transceiver antenna .

[0179] The transceiver 120 (reception processing unit 1212) may apply reception processing such as analog-to-digital conversion, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processing, Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform (IDFT) processing (if necessary), filtering, demapping, demodulation, decoding (which may include error correction decoding), MAC layer processing, RLC layer processing, and PDCP layer processing to the acquired baseband signal, thereby acquiring user data, etc.

[0180] The transceiver 120 (measurement unit 123) may perform measurements on the received signal. For example, the measurement unit 123 may perform Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurements, Channel State Information (CSI) measurements, etc., based on the received signal. The measurement unit 123 may measure received power (e.g., Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP)), received quality (e.g., Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ), Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR), Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR)), signal strength (e.g., Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI)), propagation path information (e.g., CSI), etc. The measurement results may be output to the control unit 110.

[0181] The transmission path interface 140 may transmit and receive signals (backhaul signaling) between devices included in the core network 30, other base stations 10, etc., and may acquire and transmit user data (user plane data) for the user terminal 20, control plane data, etc.

[0182] The transmitting section and receiving section of the base station 10 in the present disclosure may be configured by at least one of the transmitting / receiving section 120, the transmitting / receiving antenna 130, and the transmission path interface 140.

[0183] The transceiver 120 may transmit transmission configuration indication (TCI) state information indicating a plurality of TCI states and transmit downlink control information common to the group. The controller 110 may apply a TCI state associated with a value of a field in the downlink control information, among the plurality of TCI states, to at least one of the uplink and downlink signals.

[0184] The transceiver 120 may transmit downlink control information common to the group, indicating a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state. The control unit 110 may control reception of feedback information indicating success or failure of reception of the downlink control information.

[0185] (User terminal) 19 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a user terminal according to an embodiment. The user terminal 20 includes a control unit 210, a transmitting / receiving unit 220, and a transmitting / receiving antenna 230. Note that the user terminal 20 may include one or more of each of the control unit 210, the transmitting / receiving unit 220, and the transmitting / receiving antenna 230.

[0186] In this example, the functional blocks of the characteristic parts of the present embodiment are mainly shown, and the user terminal 20 may be assumed to have other functional blocks necessary for wireless communication. Some of the processes of each unit described below may be omitted.

[0187] The control unit 210 performs overall control of the user terminal 20. The control unit 210 can be configured with a controller, a control circuit, and the like that are explained based on common understanding in the technical field to which the present disclosure relates.

[0188] The control unit 210 may control signal generation, mapping, etc. The control unit 210 may control transmission / reception, measurement, etc. using the transmission / reception unit 220 and the transmission / reception antenna 230. The control unit 210 may generate data, control information, sequences, etc. to be transmitted as signals, and transfer them to the transmission / reception unit 220.

[0189] The transmitting / receiving unit 220 may include a baseband unit 221, an RF unit 222, and a measurement unit 223. The baseband unit 221 may include a transmission processing unit 2211 and a reception processing unit 2212. The transmitting / receiving unit 220 may be configured with a transmitter / receiver, an RF circuit, a baseband circuit, a filter, a phase shifter, a measurement circuit, a transmitting / receiving circuit, and the like, which are described based on common understanding in the technical field related to the present disclosure.

[0190] The transmitting / receiving unit 220 may be configured as an integrated transmitting / receiving unit, or may be composed of a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The transmitting unit may be composed of a transmission processing unit 2211 and an RF unit 222. The receiving unit may be composed of a reception processing unit 2212, an RF unit 222, and a measurement unit 223.

[0191] The transmitting / receiving antenna 230 can be composed of an antenna described based on common understanding in the technical field to which this disclosure pertains, such as an array antenna.

[0192] The transceiver 220 may receive the above-mentioned downlink channel, synchronization signal, downlink reference signal, etc. The transceiver 220 may transmit the above-mentioned uplink channel, uplink reference signal, etc.

[0193] The transceiver 220 may form at least one of a transmission beam and a reception beam using digital beamforming (eg, precoding), analog beamforming (eg, phase rotation), or the like.

[0194] The transceiver unit 220 (transmission processing unit 2211) may perform PDCP layer processing, RLC layer processing (e.g., RLC retransmission control), MAC layer processing (e.g., HARQ retransmission control), etc. on data, control information, etc. obtained from the control unit 210, and generate a bit string to be transmitted.

[0195] The transceiver 220 (transmission processing unit 2211) may perform transmission processing such as channel coding (which may include error correction coding), modulation, mapping, filtering, DFT processing (if necessary), IFFT processing, precoding, and digital-to-analog conversion on the bit sequence to be transmitted, and output a baseband signal.

[0196] Whether or not to apply the DFT process may be based on the setting of transform precoding. When transform precoding is enabled for a certain channel (e.g., PUSCH), the transceiver 220 (transmission processor 2211) may perform the DFT process as the transmission process to transmit the channel using a DFT-s-OFDM waveform, and may not perform the DFT process as the transmission process if transform precoding is enabled for the channel.

[0197] The transceiver unit 220 (RF unit 222) may perform modulation to a radio frequency band, filtering, amplification, and the like on the baseband signal, and transmit the radio frequency band signal via the transceiver antenna 230.

[0198] On the other hand, the transceiver unit 220 (RF unit 222) may perform amplification, filtering, demodulation to a baseband signal, etc. on the radio frequency signal received by the transceiver antenna 230.

[0199] The transceiver 220 (reception processing unit 2212) may apply reception processing such as analog-to-digital conversion, FFT processing, IDFT processing (if necessary), filtering, demapping, demodulation, decoding (which may include error correction decoding), MAC layer processing, RLC layer processing, and PDCP layer processing to the acquired baseband signal, and acquire user data, etc.

[0200] The transceiver 220 (measurement unit 223) may perform measurements on the received signal. For example, the measurement unit 223 may perform RRM measurements, CSI measurements, etc. based on the received signal. The measurement unit 223 may measure received power (e.g., RSRP), received quality (e.g., RSRQ, SINR, SNR), signal strength (e.g., RSSI), propagation path information (e.g., CSI), etc. The measurement results may be output to the control unit 210.

[0201] In addition, the transmitting section and the receiving section of the user terminal 20 in the present disclosure may be configured by at least one of the transmitting / receiving section 220 and the transmitting / receiving antenna 230.

[0202] The transceiver 220 may receive transmission configuration indication (TCI) state information indicating a plurality of TCI states, and may receive downlink control information common to the group. The controller 210 may apply a TCI state associated with a value of a field in the downlink control information, among the plurality of TCI states, to at least one of an uplink and a downlink signal.

[0203] The control unit 210 may apply the TCI state to the signal after a specific time has elapsed since transmission of feedback information indicating success or failure of reception of the downlink control information.

[0204] The TCI status information may be terminal specific.

[0205] The TCI status information may be common to a plurality of terminals.

[0206] The transceiver 220 may receive downlink control information common to the group, which indicates a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state. The controller 210 may control the transmission of feedback information indicating success or failure of reception of the downlink control information.

[0207] The transmission / reception unit 220 may receive resource information indicating a plurality of resources of the feedback information. The control unit 210 may use, for the transmission, a resource associated with a value of a field in the downlink control information among the plurality of resources.

[0208] The transceiver 220 may receive monitoring information indicating a monitoring occasion for the downlink control information. If reception of the downlink control information fails in the monitoring occasion, the controller 210 may control transmission of the feedback information indicating failure of reception of the downlink control information.

[0209] The transceiver unit 220 may receive a retransmission of the downlink control information transmitted based on the feedback information, or a response transmitted based on the feedback information.

[0210] (Hardware configuration) The block diagrams used to explain the above embodiments show functional blocks. These functional blocks (components) are realized by any combination of at least one of hardware and software. The method of realizing each functional block is not particularly limited. That is, each functional block may be realized by using one device that is physically or logically combined, or may be realized by using two or more devices that are physically or logically separated and directly or indirectly connected (for example, by wire, wirelessly, etc.). The functional blocks may be realized by combining the one device or the multiple devices with software.

[0211] Here, the functions include, but are not limited to, judgment, determination, judgment, calculation, computation, processing, derivation, investigation, search, confirmation, reception, transmission, output, access, resolution, selection, selection, establishment, comparison, assumption, expectation, deeming, broadcasting, notifying, communicating, forwarding, configuring, reconfiguring, allocating, mapping, and assignment. For example, a functional block (component) that performs the function of transmission may be called a transmitting unit, a transmitter, and the like. In either case, as described above, the method of realization is not particularly limited.

[0212] For example, a base station, a user terminal, etc. in an embodiment of the present disclosure may function as a computer that performs processing of the wireless communication method of the present disclosure. Fig. 20 is a diagram showing an example of a hardware configuration of a base station and a user terminal according to an embodiment. The above-mentioned base station 10 and user terminal 20 may be physically configured as a computer device including a processor 1001, a memory 1002, a storage 1003, a communication device 1004, an input device 1005, an output device 1006, a bus 1007, etc.

[0213] In this disclosure, the terms "apparatus," "circuit," "device," "section," "unit," and the like can be read interchangeably. The hardware configurations of the base station 10 and the user terminal 20 may be configured to include one or more of the devices shown in the drawings, or may be configured to exclude some of the devices.

[0214] For example, although only one processor 1001 is shown, there may be multiple processors. Also, the processes may be performed by one processor, or the processes may be performed by two or more processors simultaneously, sequentially, or in other manners. Also, the processor 1001 may be implemented by one or more chips.

[0215] Each function in the base station 10 and the user terminal 20 is realized, for example, by loading a specific software (program) onto hardware such as a processor 1001 and a memory 1002, so that the processor 1001 performs calculations, controls communications via a communication device 1004, and controls at least one of reading and writing of data in the memory 1002 and the storage 1003.

[0216] The processor 1001, for example, operates an operating system to control the entire computer. The processor 1001 may be configured with a central processing unit (CPU) including an interface with peripheral devices, a control device, an arithmetic unit, a register, etc. For example, at least a part of the above-mentioned control unit 110 (210), transmission / reception unit 120 (220), etc. may be realized by the processor 1001.

[0217] Moreover, the processor 1001 reads out programs (program codes), software modules, data, etc. from at least one of the storage 1003 and the communication device 1004 into the memory 1002, and executes various processes according to the programs. As the programs, programs that cause a computer to execute at least a part of the operations described in the above-mentioned embodiments are used. For example, the control unit 110 (210) may be realized by a control program stored in the memory 1002 and operated by the processor 1001, and the other functional blocks may be realized in a similar manner.

[0218] The memory 1002 is a computer-readable recording medium, and may be configured by at least one of, for example, a Read Only Memory (ROM), an Erasable Programmable ROM (EPROM), an Electrically EPROM (EEPROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), and other suitable storage media. The memory 1002 may be called a register, a cache, a main memory (primary storage device), and the like. The memory 1002 can store a program (program code), a software module, and the like that is executable to implement a wireless communication method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0219] Storage 1003 is a computer-readable recording medium and may be constituted by at least one of, for example, a flexible disk, a floppy disk, a magneto-optical disk (e.g., a compact disk (e.g., a Compact Disc ROM (CD-ROM)), a digital versatile disk, a Blu-ray disk), a removable disk, a hard disk drive, a smart card, a flash memory device (e.g., a card, stick, key drive), a magnetic stripe, a database, a server, or other suitable storage medium. Storage 1003 may also be referred to as an auxiliary storage device.

[0220] The communication device 1004 is hardware (transmission / reception device) for performing communication between computers via at least one of a wired network and a wireless network, and is also called, for example, a network device, a network controller, a network card, a communication module, etc. The communication device 1004 may be configured to include a high-frequency switch, a duplexer, a filter, a frequency synthesizer, etc., in order to realize at least one of Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD). For example, the above-mentioned transmission / reception unit 120 (220), transmission / reception antenna 130 (230), etc. may be realized by the communication device 1004. The transmission / reception unit 120 (220) may be implemented as a transmission unit 120a (220a) and a reception unit 120b (220b) that are physically or logically separated.

[0221] The input device 1005 is an input device (e.g., a keyboard, a mouse, a microphone, a switch, a button, a sensor, etc.) that accepts input from the outside. The output device 1006 is an output device (e.g., a display, a speaker, a Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamp, etc.) that performs output to the outside. The input device 1005 and the output device 1006 may be integrated into one device (e.g., a touch panel).

[0222] In addition, each device such as the processor 1001 and the memory 1002 is connected by a bus 1007 for communicating information. The bus 1007 may be configured using a single bus, or may be configured using different buses between each device.

[0223] Furthermore, the base station 10 and the user terminal 20 may be configured to include hardware such as a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a programmable logic device (PLD), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), etc., and some or all of the functional blocks may be realized using the hardware. For example, the processor 1001 may be implemented using at least one of these pieces of hardware.

[0224] (Modification) In addition, the terms explained in this disclosure and the terms necessary for understanding this disclosure may be replaced with terms having the same or similar meanings. For example, a channel, a symbol, and a signal (signal or signaling) may be read as mutually interchangeable. A signal may also be a message. A reference signal may also be abbreviated as RS, and may also be called a pilot, pilot signal, etc. depending on the applied standard. A component carrier (CC) may also be called a cell, a frequency carrier, a carrier frequency, etc.

[0225] A radio frame may be composed of one or more periods (frames) in the time domain. Each of the one or more periods (frames) constituting a radio frame may be called a subframe. Furthermore, a subframe may be composed of one or more slots in the time domain. A subframe may have a fixed time length (e.g., 1 ms) that is independent of numerology.

[0226] Here, the numerology may be a communication parameter applied to at least one of the transmission and reception of a signal or channel, and may indicate at least one of, for example, a subcarrier spacing (SCS), a bandwidth, a symbol length, a cyclic prefix length, a transmission time interval (TTI), a number of symbols per TTI, a radio frame structure, a specific filtering process performed by a transceiver in the frequency domain, and a specific windowing process performed by a transceiver in the time domain.

[0227] A slot may be composed of one or more symbols (such as an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbol, etc.) in the time domain. A slot may also be a time unit based on numerology.

[0228] A slot may include multiple minislots. Each minislot may be composed of one or multiple symbols in the time domain. A minislot may also be called a subslot. A minislot may be composed of fewer symbols than a slot. A PDSCH (or PUSCH) transmitted in a time unit larger than a minislot may be called PDSCH (PUSCH) mapping type A. A PDSCH (or PUSCH) transmitted using a minislot may be called PDSCH (PUSCH) mapping type B.

[0229] A radio frame, a subframe, a slot, a minislot, and a symbol each represent a time unit for transmitting a signal. A different name may be used for the radio frame, the subframe, the slot, the minislot, and the symbol. Note that the time units such as a frame, a subframe, a slot, a minislot, and a symbol in the present disclosure may be read as interchangeable with each other.

[0230] For example, one subframe may be called a TTI, multiple consecutive subframes may be called a TTI, or one slot or one minislot may be called a TTI. That is, at least one of the subframe and the TTI may be a subframe (1 ms) in the existing LTE, a period shorter than 1 ms (for example, 1-13 symbols), or a period longer than 1 ms. Note that the unit representing the TTI may be called a slot, minislot, etc., instead of a subframe.

[0231] Here, TTI refers to, for example, the minimum time unit for scheduling in wireless communication. For example, in an LTE system, a base station performs scheduling to allocate radio resources (such as frequency bandwidth and transmission power that can be used by each user terminal) to each user terminal in TTI units. Note that the definition of TTI is not limited to this.

[0232] The TTI may be a transmission time unit for a channel-encoded data packet (transport block), a code block, a code word, etc., or may be a processing unit for scheduling, link adaptation, etc. When a TTI is given, the time interval (e.g., the number of symbols) in which a transport block, a code block, a code word, etc. are actually mapped may be shorter than the TTI.

[0233] In addition, when one slot or one minislot is called TTI, one or more TTIs (i.e., one or more slots or one or more minislots) may be the minimum time unit of scheduling. Also, the number of slots (minislots) constituting the minimum time unit of scheduling may be controlled.

[0234] A TTI having a time length of 1 ms may be called a normal TTI (TTI in 3GPP Rel. 8-12), a normal TTI, a long TTI, a normal subframe, a normal subframe, a long subframe, a slot, etc. A TTI shorter than a normal TTI may be called a shortened TTI, a short TTI, a partial or fractional TTI, a shortened subframe, a short subframe, a minislot, a subslot, a slot, etc.

[0235] In addition, a long TTI (e.g., a normal TTI, a subframe, etc.) may be interpreted as a TTI having a time length exceeding 1 ms, and a short TTI (e.g., a shortened TTI, etc.) may be interpreted as a TTI having a TTI length shorter than the TTI length of a long TTI and equal to or greater than 1 ms.

[0236] A resource block (RB) is a resource allocation unit in the time domain and the frequency domain, and may include one or more consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain. The number of subcarriers included in an RB may be the same regardless of the numerology, and may be, for example, 12. The number of subcarriers included in an RB may be determined based on the numerology.

[0237] In addition, an RB may include one or more symbols in the time domain, and may have a length of one slot, one minislot, one subframe, or one TTI. Each of one TTI, one subframe, etc. may be composed of one or more resource blocks.

[0238] In addition, one or more RBs may be called a physical resource block (PRB), a sub-carrier group (SCG), a resource element group (REG), a PRB pair, an RB pair, etc.

[0239] Furthermore, a resource block may be composed of one or more resource elements (REs). For example, one RE may be a radio resource region of one subcarrier and one symbol.

[0240] A Bandwidth Part (BWP), which may also be referred to as a fractional bandwidth, may represent a subset of contiguous common resource blocks (RBs) for a numerology on a carrier, where the common RBs may be identified by the index of the RBs relative to a common reference point of the carrier. PRBs may be defined in a BWP and numbered within the BWP.

[0241] The BWP may include a UL BWP (a BWP for UL) and a DL BWP (a BWP for DL). One or more BWPs may be configured for a UE within one carrier.

[0242] At least one of the configured BWPs may be active, and the UE may not expect to transmit or receive a given signal / channel outside the active BWP. Note that the terms "cell", "carrier", etc. in this disclosure may be replaced with "BWP".

[0243] The above-mentioned structures of radio frames, subframes, slots, minislots, and symbols are merely examples. For example, the number of subframes included in a radio frame, the number of slots per subframe or radio frame, the number of minislots included in a slot, the number of symbols and RBs included in a slot or minislot, the number of subcarriers included in an RB, the number of symbols in a TTI, the symbol length, the cyclic prefix (CP) length, and other configurations can be changed in various ways.

[0244] In addition, the information, parameters, etc. described in the present disclosure may be represented using absolute values, may be represented using relative values ​​from a predetermined value, or may be represented using other corresponding information. For example, a radio resource may be indicated by a predetermined index.

[0245] The names used for parameters and the like in this disclosure are not limiting in any way. Furthermore, the formulas and the like using these parameters may differ from those explicitly disclosed in this disclosure. The various channels (PUCCH, PDCCH, etc.) and information elements may be identified by any suitable names, and therefore the various names assigned to these various channels and information elements are not limiting in any way.

[0246] The information, signals, etc. described in this disclosure may be represented using any of a variety of different technologies. For example, the data, instructions, commands, information, signals, bits, symbols, chips, etc. that may be referred to throughout the above description may be represented by voltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or magnetic particles, optical fields or photons, or any combination thereof.

[0247] Furthermore, information, signals, etc. may be output from a higher layer to a lower layer and / or from a lower layer to a higher layer. Information, signals, etc. may be input / output via a plurality of network nodes.

[0248] Input and output information, signals, etc. may be stored in a specific location (e.g., memory) or may be managed using a management table. Input and output information, signals, etc. may be overwritten, updated, or added to. Output information, signals, etc. may be deleted. Input information, signals, etc. may be transmitted to another device.

[0249] The notification of information is not limited to the aspects / embodiments described in the present disclosure, and may be performed using other methods. For example, the notification of information in the present disclosure may be performed by physical layer signaling (e.g., Downlink Control Information (DCI) and Uplink Control Information (UCI)), higher layer signaling (e.g., Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, broadcast information (Master Information Block (MIB) and System Information Block (SIB)), Medium Access Control (MAC) signaling), other signals, or a combination thereof.

[0250] The physical layer signaling may be called Layer 1 / Layer 2 (L1 / L2) control information (L1 / L2 control signal), L1 control information (L1 control signal), etc. The RRC signaling may be called an RRC message, for example, an RRC Connection Setup message, an RRC Connection Reconfiguration message, etc. The MAC signaling may be notified, for example, by using a MAC Control Element (CE).

[0251] Furthermore, notification of specified information (e.g., notification that "it is X") is not limited to explicit notification, but may be made implicitly (e.g., by not notifying the specified information or by notifying other information).

[0252] The determination may be made based on a value represented by a single bit (0 or 1), a Boolean value represented as true or false, or by comparing numerical values ​​(e.g., with a predetermined value).

[0253] Software shall be construed broadly to mean instructions, instruction sets, code, code segments, program code, programs, subprograms, software modules, applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executable files, threads of execution, procedures, functions, etc., whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or otherwise.

[0254] Additionally, software, instructions, information, etc. may be transmitted or received over a transmission medium. For example, if the software is transmitted from a website, server, or other remote source using wired technologies (such as coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)), and / or wireless technologies (such as infrared, microwave, etc.), then these wired and / or wireless technologies are included within the definition of transmission media.

[0255] As used in this disclosure, the terms "system" and "network" may be used interchangeably. A "network" may refer to devices included in the network (e.g., base stations).

[0256] In this disclosure, terms such as "precoding," "precoder," "weight (precoding weight)," "Quasi-Co-Location (QCL)," "Transmission Configuration Indication state (TCI state)," "spatial relation," "spatial domain filter," "transmit power," "phase rotation," "antenna port," "antenna port group," "layer," "number of layers," "rank," "resource," "resource set," "resource group," "beam," "beam width," "beam angle," "antenna," "antenna element," "panel," and the like may be used interchangeably.

[0257] In this disclosure, terms such as "Base Station (BS)", "radio base station", "fixed station", "NodeB", "eNB (eNodeB)", "gNB (gNodeB)", "access point", "Transmission Point (TP)", "Reception Point (RP)", "Transmission / Reception Point (TRP)", "panel", "cell", "sector", "cell group", "carrier", "component carrier", etc. may be used interchangeably. A base station may also be referred to by terms such as a macro cell, a small cell, a femto cell, a pico cell, etc.

[0258] A base station can accommodate one or more (e.g., three) cells. When a base station accommodates multiple cells, the entire coverage area of ​​the base station can be partitioned into multiple smaller areas, and each smaller area can also be provided with communication services by a base station subsystem (e.g., a small base station for indoor use (Remote Radio Head (RRH))). The term "cell" or "sector" refers to a part or the entire coverage area of ​​a base station and / or a base station subsystem that provides communication services in this coverage.

[0259] In this disclosure, the terms "Mobile Station (MS)", "user terminal", "User Equipment (UE)", "terminal", etc. may be used interchangeably.

[0260] A mobile station may also be referred to as a subscriber station, mobile unit, subscriber unit, wireless unit, remote unit, mobile device, wireless device, wireless communication device, remote device, mobile subscriber station, access terminal, mobile terminal, wireless terminal, remote terminal, handset, user agent, mobile client, client, or some other suitable terminology.

[0261] At least one of the base station and the mobile station may be called a transmitting device, a receiving device, a wireless communication device, etc. At least one of the base station and the mobile station may be a device mounted on a moving body, the moving body itself, etc. The moving body may be a vehicle (e.g., a car, an airplane, etc.), an unmanned moving body (e.g., a drone, an autonomous vehicle, etc.), or a robot (manned or unmanned). At least one of the base station and the mobile station may include a device that does not necessarily move during communication operation. For example, at least one of the base station and the mobile station may be an Internet of Things (IoT) device such as a sensor.

[0262] Furthermore, the base station in the present disclosure may be read as a user terminal. For example, each aspect / embodiment of the present disclosure may be applied to a configuration in which communication between a base station and a user terminal is replaced with communication between a plurality of user terminals (which may be called, for example, Device-to-Device (D2D) or Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)). In this case, the user terminal 20 may be configured to have the functions of the base station 10 described above. Furthermore, terms such as "uplink" and "downlink" may be read as terms corresponding to terminal-to-terminal communication (for example, "side"). For example, an uplink channel, a downlink channel, etc. may be read as a side channel.

[0263] Similarly, the user terminal in the present disclosure may be interpreted as a base station. In this case, the base station 10 may be configured to have the functions of the user terminal 20 described above.

[0264] In the present disclosure, an operation performed by a base station may be performed by its upper node in some cases. It is clear that in a network including one or more network nodes having base stations, various operations performed for communication with terminals may be performed by the base station, one or more network nodes other than the base station (such as, but not limited to, a Mobility Management Entity (MME) and a Serving-Gateway (S-GW)), or a combination thereof.

[0265] Each aspect / embodiment described in this disclosure may be used alone, in combination, or switched according to implementation. In addition, the processing procedures, sequences, flow charts, etc. of each aspect / embodiment described in this disclosure may be reordered unless inconsistent. For example, the methods described in this disclosure present elements of various steps using an example order, and are not limited to the particular order presented.

[0266] Each aspect / embodiment described in the present disclosure may be implemented using any of a wide variety of standards, including Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), LTE-Beyond (LTE-B), SUPER 3G, IMT-Advanced, 4th generation mobile communication system (4G), 5th generation mobile communication system (5G), 6th generation mobile communication system (6G), xth generation mobile communication system (xG) (xG (x is, for example, an integer or a decimal)), Future Radio Access (FRA), New-Radio Access Technology (RAT), New Radio (NR), New radio access (NX), Future generation radio access (FX), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM (registered trademark)), CDMA2000, Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi (registered trademark)), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX (registered trademark)), IEEE The present invention may be applied to systems using 802.20, Ultra-WideBand (UWB), Bluetooth (registered trademark), other appropriate wireless communication methods, next-generation systems that are based on these, etc. Also, the present invention may be applied to a combination of multiple systems (for example, a combination of LTE or LTE-A and 5G).

[0267] As used in this disclosure, the phrase "based on" does not mean "based only on," unless expressly stated otherwise. In other words, the phrase "based on" means both "based only on" and "based at least on."

[0268] Any reference to an element using a designation such as "first," "second," etc., used in this disclosure does not generally limit the quantity or order of those elements. These designations may be used in this disclosure as a convenient method of distinguishing between two or more elements. Thus, a reference to a first and a second element does not imply that only two elements may be employed or that the first element must precede the second element in some way.

[0269] The term "determining" as used in this disclosure may encompass a wide variety of actions. For example, "determining" may be considered to be judging, calculating, computing, processing, deriving, investigating, looking up, search, inquiry (e.g., looking up in a table, database, or another data structure), ascertaining, and the like.

[0270] A "determining" may also be considered to be "determining" receiving (e.g., receiving information), transmitting (e.g., sending information), input, output, accessing (e.g., accessing data in a memory), etc.

[0271] Also, "determination" may be considered to be "deciding" resolving, selecting, choosing, establishing, comparing, etc. That is, "determination" may be considered to be "deciding" to perform some action.

[0272] Additionally, "judgment (decision)" may be interpreted as "assuming," "expecting," "considering," etc.

[0273] The "maximum transmit power" in this disclosure may mean the maximum value of transmit power, may mean the nominal UE maximum transmit power, or may mean the rated UE maximum transmit power.

[0274] As used in this disclosure, the terms "connected," "coupled," or any variation thereof, refer to any direct or indirect connection or coupling between two or more elements, and may include the presence of one or more intermediate elements between two elements that are "connected" or "coupled" to each other. The coupling or connection between the elements may be physical, logical, or a combination thereof. For example, "connected" may be read as "access."

[0275] In this disclosure, when two elements are connected, they may be considered to be "connected" or "coupled" to one another using one or more wires, cables, printed electrical connections, and the like, as well as using electromagnetic energy having wavelengths in the radio frequency range, microwave range, light (both visible and invisible) range, and the like, as some non-limiting and non-exhaustive examples.

[0276] In the present disclosure, the term "A and B are different" may mean "A and B are different from each other." The term may also mean "A and B are each different from C." Terms such as "separate" and "coupled" may also be interpreted in the same way as "different."

[0277] When the terms "include," "including," and variations thereof are used in this disclosure, these terms are intended to be inclusive, similar to the term "comprising." Further, when used in this disclosure, the term "or" is not intended to be an exclusive or.

[0278] In this disclosure, where articles have been added by translation, such as a, an, and the in English, the disclosure may include that the nouns following these articles are in the plural form.

[0279] Although the invention according to the present disclosure has been described in detail above, it is clear to those skilled in the art that the invention according to the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments described in the present disclosure. The invention according to the present disclosure can be implemented as modified and altered forms without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention defined based on the description of the claims. Therefore, the description of the present disclosure is intended to be illustrative and does not have any limiting meaning on the invention according to the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A receiving unit that receives, as Radio Resource Control information elements (RRC IEs) unique to each of a plurality of terminals, upper layer settings of a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states, each of which is mapped to a plurality of values in a TCI field in downlink control information (DCI), and receives DCI common to the plurality of terminals; A control unit that applies, to at least one of an uplink signal and a downlink signal, a TCI state associated with a value in the TCI field in the DCI common to the plurality of terminals among the plurality of TCI states. A terminal having the same.

2. Receiving, as Radio Resource Control information elements (RRC IEs) unique to each of a plurality of terminals, upper layer settings of a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states, each of which is mapped to a plurality of values in a TCI field in downlink control information (DCI), and receiving DCI common to the plurality of terminals; Applying, to at least one of an uplink signal and a downlink signal, a TCI state associated with a value in the TCI field in the DCI common to the plurality of terminals among the plurality of TCI states. A wireless communication method for a terminal having the same.

3. A transmitting unit that transmits, as Radio Resource Control information elements (RRC IEs) unique to each of a plurality of terminals, upper layer settings of a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states, each of which is mapped to a plurality of values in a TCI field in downlink control information (DCI), and transmits DCI common to the plurality of terminals; A control unit that applies, to at least one of an uplink signal and a downlink signal, a TCI state associated with a value in the TCI field in the DCI common to the plurality of terminals among the plurality of TCI states. A base station having the same.

4. A system having a terminal and a base station, The terminal is, A receiving unit that receives, as Radio Resource Control information elements (RRC IEs) unique to each of a plurality of terminals, upper layer settings of a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states, each of which is mapped to a plurality of values in a TCI field in downlink control information (DCI), and receives DCI common to the plurality of terminals; A control unit that applies, to at least one signal of an uplink and a downlink, a TCI state associated with a value of the TCI field in the DCI that is common to the plurality of terminals among the plurality of TCI states. The base station A system having a transmission unit that transmits the RRC IE and transmits the DCI.

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