Patent ID: 11950239
Assignee: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a base station, the method comprising:
determining one or more allocated resource blocks for a first physical uplink channel based on an indicated sub-band group and one or more indicated resource block groups within the indicated sub-band group,
wherein the sub-band group includes one or more sub-bands, each sub-band comprises one or more resource block groups, each resource block group comprises one or more resource blocks, and a resource block includes one or more contiguous resource elements in a frequency domain;

transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), scheduling information that schedules the UE to transmit the first physical uplink channel within a slot, wherein the slot includes a plurality of symbols,
wherein the scheduling information indicates the indicated sub-band group and the one or more resource block groups within the indicated sub-band group; and

receiving the first physical uplink channel in the one or more allocated resource blocks in the slot,
wherein the scheduling information includes a sub-band group index and a resource block group bitmap, and
wherein each bit in the resource block group bitmap corresponds to each resource block group within the indicated sub-band group and indicates a resource assignment of the corresponding resource block group.