Patent attributes
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration message indicating a configured grant-small data transfer (CG-SDT) group that includes the UE. The CG-SDT group is associated with a downlink beam of the base station and one or more CG-SDT occasions. The UE may transmit, to the base station and within the one or more CG-SDT occasions, an uplink communication, using an uplink beam of the UE corresponding to a downlink beam of the UE, where the downlink beam of the UE is associated with the downlink beam of the base station used for transmitting at least one of the configuration message, a paging message, or a reference signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.