SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ADDRESS RESOURCE COLLISION FOR ASYMMETRIC REGION ALLOCATION

摘要

Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (UE) and an evolved Node B (eNB). An eNB may allocated uplink and downlink regions associated with machine-type communication (MTC) to a UE. The allocation of uplink and downlink regions may be asymmetric. The eNB may identify parameters based on this asymmetric region allocation to avoid resource collision during communication of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) feedback between the eNB and the UE. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

主权项

1. An evolved Node B (eNB) comprising:
allocation circuitry to:
allocate, in association with transmission to a user equipment (UE), a plurality of downlink regions associated with machine-type communication (MTC); andallocate, in association with reception from the UE, one or more uplink regions associated with MTC; and scheduling circuitry, coupled with the allocation circuitry, the scheduling circuitry to:
determine the one or more uplink regions are fewer in number than the plurality of downlink regions; andidentify, based on the determination that the one or more uplink regions are fewer in number than the one or more downlink regions, one or more parameters associated with one or more resources to be used for communication of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) feedback between the eNB and the UE.