POWER SAVING FOR UPLINK SCHEDULING GRANT SIGNALING AND DECODING

摘要

Each of a plurality of user equipments UEs is associated with one downlink radio resource within a duty cycle. Scheduling grant control entities, each granting only one uplink resource within the duty cycle are sent to each of the UEs in their associated DL resources. For the case where within one duty cycle there is more than one scheduling grant control entity for an individual UE, then a first scheduling grant control entity for that UE is sent in the UE's associated downlink resource all remaining scheduling grant control entities for that UE are chained to the first scheduling grant control entity. Chaining can indicate whether or not there is a subsequent scheduling grant control entity for that same UE within the duty cycle and/or within the same downlink resource.