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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2020
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Claudio Rosa, Randers NV, DK;
Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas, Gistrup, DK;
Olli Alanen, Vantaa, FI;
Mika Kasslin, Espoo, FI;
Adrian Garcia Rodriguez, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES;
Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Stuttgart, DE;
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: receiving control information including a slot format indicator configured to indicate scheduled channel usage for time units, wherein the slot format indicator includes at least one indicator configured to indicate that simultaneous uplink and downlink communications are scheduled to occur on a shared channel in at least one of the time units; and determining a type of channel sensing to use prior to initiating an uplink transmission on at least a portion of the shared channel based, at least in part, on the control information, wherein determining a type of channel sensing to use comprises analysing the scheduled channel usage for, at least, the time unit in which the uplink transmission is scheduled to be initiated and the time unit before the time unit in which the uplink transmission is scheduled to be initiated.