Scheduling multiple communication channels via a single control element

Abstract

A base station can implement a method for scheduling downlink transmissions to a user equipment (UE). The method may be performed by processing hardware and includes transmitting to the UE a control element that includes information related to a first time resource for receiving a first downlink data unit associated with a media access control layer from the base station and a second time resource for receiving a second downlink data unit associated with the media access control layer from the base station (). The first time resource and the second time resource are non-consecutive and have different respective timeslot offsets within one or more frames, the information including an index into a table stored at the UE, the table specifying a plurality of candidate timeslot offsets for the first time resource (). In addition, the method includes transmitting to the UE the first downlink data unit over the first time resource and the second downlink data unit over the second resource ().