Patent ID: 11936481
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform operations, the operations comprising:
transmitting, to a base station (BS), a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the RRC signaling indicating that the apparatus is capable of grant-free transmissions, wherein the grant-free transmissions are transmissions on transmission resources without using a request/grant mechanism to obtain an allocation of the transmission resources from the BS;
receiving, from the BS, via a unicast high level signaling, configuration information that enables a grant-free transmission without the request/grant mechanism, wherein the configuration information indicating a pilot resource; and
transmitting, to the BS, an uplink data transmission on the transmission resources in accordance with a pilot, the pilot transmitted over the pilot resource, and the transmission resources comprising a time resource, and a frequency resource.