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

Claim 3:
4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the implementing at least one physical uplink control channel assignment based on the at least one physical uplink control channel assignment policy indication implements at least one of:
assign, reassign, or both assign and reassign the at least one physical uplink control channel resource to the available physical resource block with a highest number of currently allocated physical resource allocations;
assign, reassign, or both assign and reassign the at least one physical uplink control channel resource to the available physical resource block with a lowest number of currently allocated physical resource allocations;
assign, reassign, or both assign and reassign the at least one physical uplink control channel resource to the available physical resource block to attempt to equalize currently allocated physical resource allocations between all available physical resource blocks;
assign, reassign, or both assign and reassign the at least one physical uplink control channel resource to the available physical resource block which is contiguous with a currently used physical resource block; or
assign, reassign, or both assign and reassign the at least one physical uplink control channel resource to the available physical resource block after a determined number of assignments or a determined number of reassignments or both a determined number of assignments and a determined number of reassignments are detected.