Reassignment of Unused Portions of a Transmission Unit in a Network

摘要

One embodiment includes signaling, by a first network node to a transmission unit owner node, identifying one or more remaining wireless time slot-frequency pairings of a current transmission unit assigned to the first network node that will not be used by the first network node during the current transmission unit. The transmission unit owner node reassigns one or more of the remaining wireless time slot-frequency pairings to a second network node in the network to use during the current transmission unit. One embodiment includes communicating information between a first network node and a second network node using a particular time slot-frequency pairing, including a particular frame time from the second network node to the first network node, a particular acknowledgement time from the first network node to the second network node, and a particular acknowledgment of the acknowledgment time from the second network node to the first network node.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
signaling, by a first network node in a network to a transmission unit owner node, identifying one or more remaining wireless time slot-frequency pairings of a current transmission unit assigned to the first network node that will not be used by the first network node during the current transmission unit, wherein a transmission unit includes a plurality of wireless time slot-frequency pairings for transmitting information; and reassigning, by the transmission unit owner node, said one or more remaining wireless time slot-frequency pairings to a second network node in the network to use during the current transmission unit.