Patent ID: 11864243
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing thereon instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
configure a first user equipment (UE), using first high-level signaling, to perform a configured set of uplink grant-free transmissions including an initial uplink grant-free transmission and at least one uplink grant-free redundant transmission, using time-frequency regions indicated by a first mapping, the first mapping indicating the time-frequency regions for the configured set of uplink grant-free transmissions; and
perform the configured uplink grant-free transmission(s), using the time-frequency regions indicated by the first mapping, until an acknowledge (ACK) is received by the first UE.