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Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2020
Applicant:

Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Nhat-Quang Nhan, Reims, FR;

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu, Espoo, FI;

Zexian Li, Espoo, FI;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04L 1/0081 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus, method and computer program is provided comprising: determining a plurality of candidate data transmission slots, wherein each candidate data transmission slot has an index and said plurality of candidate data transmission slots are arranged in an order; setting an index of a current candidate data transmission slot of the plurality to be an incremental increase of an index of a preceding candidate data transmission slot of the plurality in the event that a timing gap between a start of said current candidate data transmission slot and a start of a subsequent candidate data transmission slot of the plurality is greater than a threshold; and setting the index of the current candidate data transmission slot to be equal to the index of the preceding candidate data transmission slot of the plurality in the event that the timing gap is not greater than said threshold.


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