Patent ID: 11317412

Abstract:
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information including multiple transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, and receiving a beam indication indicating a TCI state from the multiple TCI states. The TCI state indicates a beam for each of N entities (E1, E2, . . . EN), and the TCI state comprises a TCI state ID and up to N+1 components (A0, A1, A2, . . . , AN), where A0 comprises common components for all entities, and for each n∈{1, 2, . . . , N}, An comprises specific components for entity En, and components A0 and An together indicate the beam for entity En. The method includes determining the beam for each of N entities (E1, E2, . . . EN) indicated by the TCI state, and transmitting an uplink (UL) transmission or receiving a downlink (DL) transmission based on the beam for each of N entities (E1, E2, . . . EN).