Rate matching resource mapping in wireless communications

A method of wireless communication, comprising:

• receiving, at a wireless terminal, a channel control indicator identifying at least a first group of rate matching resources from a plurality of rate matching resources;
• and
• receiving a transmission from a network device by rate matching around some rate matching resources of the first group of rate matching resources indicated by the channel control indicator,
• wherein at least some rate matching resources in at least the first group correspond to a quasi-co-located (QCL) reference signal set.

A wireless communication method, comprising:

• receiving, by a wireless terminal, a medium access control (MAC) layer control element indicative of one or more transmission configuration states to be used by the wireless terminal;
• determining, using a mapping, a rate matching resource group from a plurality of rate matching groups corresponding to the one or more transmission configuration states;
• and
• performing rate matching around rate matching resources corresponding to the one or more transmission configuration states indicated by the MAC layer control element.

A method of wireless communication, comprising:

• transmitting, by a network device, a medium access control (MAC) layer control element indicative of one or more transmission configuration states to be used by a wireless terminal,
• wherein a mapping defines a correspondence between a rate matching resource from a plurality of rate matching resource groups,
• wherein the rate matching resources are rate matched around for shared data channel transmissions from the network device to the wireless terminal, and
• communicating the mapping to the wireless terminal.