Patent ID: 11929832
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. An apparatus for wireless communication comprising a processor, configured to implement a method, comprising:
transmit, by a communication node, a data transmission to a network node; and
receive, by the communication node, a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook in a downlink feedback information (DFI) in a downlink control information (DCI), wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook is based on the data transmission received by the network node,
wherein a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) includes the DFI and a DCI format associated with the DCI, and
wherein the PDCCH includes one or more padded zeros in response to a number of bits of the DFI being less than another number of bits corresponding to the DCI format associated with the DFI.