LTE ENHANCEMENTS FOR SMALL PACKET TRANSMISSIONS

摘要

Disclosed in some examples is a method of wireless resource block assignment in a long term evolution wireless network including creating a downlink control information message for a user equipment, the downlink control information message comprising: a resource block assignment field which indicates up to N physical resource blocks scheduled to the user equipment by specifying an index into a plurality of all possible physical resource block allocations of between 1 and N resource blocks, wherein the resource block assignment field comprises at most a number of bits necessary to address all of the possible physical resource block allocations for assignments of 1 to N physical resource blocks, and wherein N is less than a total number of physical resource blocks; and sending the downlink control information over a physical downlink control channel using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.

主权项

1. An apparatus of user-equipment UE the apparatus comprising:
memory and processing circuitry to:
decode a resource block assignment message received from an eNodel3 on a Physical Downlink Control Channel;determine that the resource block assignment message is a small resource block assignment message, the small resource block assignment message containing a resource block assignment field, the resource block assignment field specifying up to a maximum number of scheduled physical resource blocks on a physical downlink shared channel which are allocated to the LIE, and wherein the resource block assignment field is an index into a plurality of all possible physical resource block allocations of between 1 and the maximum number of scheduled physical resource blocks, wherein the maximum number of scheduled physical resource blocks is less than a total number of physical resource blocks;determine the one or more physical resource blocks on the Physical Downlink Control Channel which are assigned to the user-equipment based upon the resource block assignment field; anddecode data sent by the eNodeB on the one or more physical resource blocks.