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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Utsaw Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Hwan-Joon Kwon, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04B 1/713 (2011.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1284 (2013.01); H04W 28/0278 (2013.01); H04B 1/713 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network device (e.g., an evolved Node B (eNB), user equipment (UE) or the like) can operate to enable scheduling of transmissions within physical resource blocks (PRBs) as a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) zone and as an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) zone to enable multiplexing UEs over a long term evolution (LTE) or next generation (NextGen) 5G based network for uplink transmissions. A first UE of the UEs can be scheduled to generate uplink transmissions from PRBs within the NOMA zone without an explicit grant message based on predefined threshold of a first transmission packet size or a first transmission rate. Another UE can also be scheduled to utilize resources of the NOMA zone or the OMA zone based on the predefined threshold.


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