Intelligent uplink-downlink arbitration to meet critical timeline for new radio (nr) internet of things (iot)

Abstract

According to various aspects, a first device can: receive, from a second device, control information indicating a grant for transmission; generate a transport block packet for transmission based on the control information; output a packet operations trigger indicating hardware to start processing packet operations; alternate processing, by the hardware, of uplink packet operations and downlink packet operations based on the packet operations trigger; output an event-based or timer-based trigger indicating the hardware to cease other processing and start processing the transport block packet; process, by the hardware, the transport block packet based on receiving the event-based/timer-based trigger; encode, by the hardware, the transport block packet based on completion of processing the transport block packet to produce a ciphered transport block packet; and transmit, to the second device, the ciphered transport block packet prior to expiration of a timeline.