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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2024
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Yifan Li, Conshohocken, PA (US);
Allan Y. Tsai, Boonton, NJ (US);
Lakshmi R. Iyer, King of Prussia, PA (US);
Qing Li, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Pascal M. Adjakple, Great Neck, NY (US);
Mohamed Awadin, San Diego, CA (US);
Joseph M. Murray, Schwenksville, PA (US);
Guodong Zhang, Woodbury, NY (US);
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Switching between Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) modes of a user equipment (UE) can be determined and indicated by a gNB to a UE at an RRC connected state using one or more of the following schemes: at an RRC (Radio Resource Control) layer with an RRC configuration message, at a MAC (Medium Access Control) layer with MAC CE (MAC control element) signaling, at a PHY (Physical) layer with DCI (Downlink Control Information) signaling, jointly with RRC configuration and DCI signaling, and/or jointly with RRC configuration and MAC CE signaling. The OMA or NOMA mode that the UE operates after the transition may be requested by the UE, indicated by the gNB, and/or may be based on one or more rules for OMA-NOMA switching.