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LTE enhancements for small packet transmissions

  • US 9,241,327 B2
  • Filed: 06/21/2012
  • Issued: 01/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of wireless resource block assignment in a long term evolution wireless network comprising:

  • 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 a maximum number of allocated 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 the maximum number of allocated physical 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 the maximum number of allocated physical resource blocks of physical resource block groups in a plurality of physical resource block groups, and wherein the maximum number of allocated physical resource blocks is an integer greater than 0 and 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.

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