Patent ID: 11937282
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A base station (BS) comprising:
a processor; and
a transceiver operably coupled to the processor, the transceiver configured to:
transmit, via higher layers, configuration information on a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states;
transmit, based on the configuration information, a TCI state indication, wherein the TCI state indication indicates M beams, where M>1 and each of the M beams is associated with an interval of downlink (DL) time slots; and
transmit a DL signal in a DL time slot for reception by one of the M beams, wherein the DL time slot belongs to the interval of DL time slots associated with the one of the M beams.