Beam correspondence conditions with joint beam pair prediction

An apparatus for wireless communications at a network entity, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
• receive a control message indicating a capability of a user equipment (UE) to support beam correspondence between a downlink receive beam and an uplink transmit beam using beam prediction;
• and
• transmit one or more signals using one or more downlink transmit beams of the network entity based at least in part on the capability of the UE to support beam correspondence between the downlink receive beam and the uplink transmit beam using beam prediction.

A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• transmitting a control message indicating a capability of the UE to support beam correspondence between a downlink receive beam and an uplink transmit beam using beam prediction;
• measuring one or more signals using one or more downlink receive beams of the UE;
• and
• performing a prediction procedure for a predicted downlink receive beam of the UE and a predicted downlink transmit beam of a network entity, wherein the predicted downlink receive beam corresponds to a predicted uplink transmit beam based at least in part on one or more measurement predictions satisfying a threshold.