Patent ID: 11889524
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. A base station comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor configured to process the instructions to
perform communication over a plurality of component carriers including a primary component carrier and at least one secondary component carrier;
send a Medium Access Control (MAC) control element to a user equipment (UE) including a bitmap, each bit of at least part of the bitmap corresponding to one of the at least one secondary component carrier; and
wherein the MAC control element is configured with each bit of the bitmap, corresponding to the one of the at least one secondary component carrier that the UE is to monitor, respectively set to “1”, and
wherein the data is monitored by the UE on the primary component carrier and the one of the at least one secondary component carrier corresponding to the at least one bit among the bitmap set to “1”.