A UE includes a transceiver configured to receive, from a base station, a higher layer parameter that is set as enabled or disabled. The higher layer parameter is explicitly or implicitly determined to be disabled by Boolean parameters or DL DCI format types. The UE also includes a controller configured to, based on identifying that the higher layer parameter is set as enabled either on per CORESET basis or on per DCI format basis, assume that, for receiving a PDSCH, an indication state is present in a DL DCI transmitted by a PDCCH on a CORESET, wherein the indication state indicates an associated PDSCH QCL parameter. A transceiver receives the associated PDSCH using the QCL parameter from the base station.