Patent ID: 11943160
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A method for a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising:
a) receiving, from a user device of the wireless network, a request message requesting that a leading demarcation and a trailing demarcation be concatenated with downlink messages to the user device, and that DCI (downlink control information) messages not be transmitted to the user device; and
b) then, without transmitting a DCI message to the user device, transmitting a downlink message to the user device, the downlink message prepended by the leading demarcation and appended by the trailing demarcation;
c) wherein each demarcation, of the leading and trailing demarcations, comprises a first gap with no transmission, followed by a demodulation reference, followed by a second gap with no transmission.