Patent ID: 11917709
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. An apparatus for next-generation Node B (gNB) configured for operation in a fifth-generation new radio (5G NR) network, the apparatus comprising: processing circuitry; and memory,
wherein for a user equipment (UE) configured with two or more secondary cells (SCells) of a group of SCells, the processing circuitry is configured to:
encode radio-resource control (RRC) signalling for transmission to the UE to configure the UE with a resourceAllocationType1;
encode a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for include a downlink control information (DCI) format 1_1 for transmission to the UE;
encode fields of the DCI format 1_1 as a bitmap for SCell dormancy indication to signal to the UE to either activate or deactivate a downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) for an SCell of the group of configured SCells if the UE is configured with the resourceAllocationType1 and if all bits of a frequency domain resource assignment field in the DCI format 1_1 are set equal to 1; and
encode the fields of the DCI format 1_1 as scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception when either the UE is not configured with the resourceAllocationType1 or when all bits of the frequency domain resource assignment field in the DCI format 1_1 are not set equal to 1,
wherein the memory is configured to store the bitmap.