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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Qing Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);
Kedar Durgadas Shirali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rohit Umesh Nabar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include ranking a plurality of downlink control information (DCI) messages according to a first rank criterion; ranking a plurality of allowable resource sets for each ranked DCI message according to a second rank criterion; and allocating resources for each ranked DCI message based, at least in part, on whether particular resources, which are to be allocated for a particular ranked DCI message, are collided, at least in part, with previously allocated resources for one or more other DCI messages.