Patent ID: 11963192
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A base station in a communication system, the base station comprising:
a transceiver; and
a controller coupled with the transceiver and configured to:
transmit, to a terminal, high layer signaling including information indicating a coverage enhanced (CE) mode, an index of a physical resource block (PRB) for the CE mode associated with a sub-PRB allocation, and information on a repetition number for the CE mode associated with the sub-PRB allocation,
transmit, to the terminal, downlink control information (DCI) including resource allocation information, the resource allocation information indicating a set of subcarriers in the PRB, and
receive, from the terminal, data based on the set of subcarriers in the PRB and the repetition number.