Patent ID: 11877282
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. An intelligent management function unit (IMF), comprising:
at least one processor; and
one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor, the programming instructions instruct the at least one processor to:
obtain feature information of a service;
determine grant-free (GF) resource indication information corresponding to the feature information, wherein the GF resource indication information comprises a GF resource allocation model corresponding to a cell or a network slice, and wherein the GF resource allocation model comprises GF resources to be allocated in different time periods to a plurality of user equipment (UE) that access the cell or the network slice; and
send the GF resource indication information to a base station or a management unit of the base station, wherein the base station corresponds to the cell or the network slice, and wherein the GF resource indication information is used to indicates the base station to determine GF resources corresponding to the cell or GF resources corresponding to the network slice based on the GF resource indication information.