Patent ID: 11895633
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method implemented in a host computer operating in a communication system that includes the host computer, a base station, and a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
at the host computer, providing user data; and
at the host computer, initiating a transmission carrying the user data to the UE via a cellular network comprising the base station,
wherein the base station is configured to:
send, to the UE, an indication of an active bandwidth part, BWP, wherein the active BWP is of a size NBWP,1size in number of frequency-domain resource blocks (RBs);
select frequency-domain RBs, within the active BWP, to be assigned for carrying the user data to the UE;
encode an indication of the selected frequency-domain RBs represented by a starting virtual RB, RBstart, and a length of contiguously allocated RBs, LRBs, using a number of bits, wherein the number of bits is greater than one and is related to a size NBWP,2size of another BWP than the active BWP, wherein the size NBWP,2size is smaller than the size NBWP,1size, and wherein the starting virtual RB is encoded with a resolution of K RBs, wherein K is determined based on a ratio of the size NBWP,1size and the size NBWP,2size;
send the encoded indication to the UE via a downlink control channel; and
transmit the user data to the UE utilizing the active BWP.