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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2018
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Kanata, CA;
Hosein Nikopour, San Jose, CA (US);
Petar Djukic, Nepean, CA;
Zhihang Yi, Ottawa, CA;
Alireza Bayesteh, Ottawa, CA;
Jianglei Ma, Ottawa, CA;
Mohammadhadi Baligh, Ottawa, CA;
Liqing Zhang, Ottawa, CA;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A method embodiment includes implementing, by a base station (BS), a grant-free uplink transmission scheme. The grant-free uplink transmission scheme defines a first contention transmission unit (CTU) access region in a time-frequency domain, defines a plurality of CTUs, defines a default CTU mapping scheme by mapping at least some of the plurality of CTUs to the first CTU access region, and defines a default user equipment (UE) mapping scheme by defining rules for mapping a plurality of UEs to the plurality of CTUs.