Patent ID: 11924861
Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising program code that, when executed, cause an apparatus to perform:
receiving, at the apparatus implementing at least part of a radio access network node, at least one notification from at least one radio access network node controller, the at least one notification caused to notify the apparatus of at least one physical uplink control channel assignment policy indication indicating at least a change in one or more attributes for at least one physical uplink control channel resource;
implementing, by the apparatus for at least one user equipment associated with the apparatus, the change in the one or more attributes for the at least one physical uplink control channel resource at least by implementing at least one physical uplink control channel assignment to an available physical resource block based on the at least one physical uplink control channel assignment policy indication,
wherein the indication indicating at least the change in the one or more attributes for at least one physical uplink control channel resource indicates a change in size of the at least one physical uplink control channel resource, and, in response to the change in the size, the change in the one or more attributes for the at least one physical uplink control channel resource is implemented by implementing at least one physical uplink control channel assignment to an available physical resource block to resize the at least one physical uplink control channel resource; and
generating and transmitting by the apparatus at least one assignment notification to the at least one user equipment associated with the apparatus, the assignment notification caused to notify the at least one user equipment of the at least one physical uplink control channel assignment.