Patent ID: 11889524
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. A method for a base station, the method comprising:
performing communication over a plurality of component carriers, including a primary component carrier and at least one secondary component carrier; and
sending a Medium Access Control (MAC) control element to a user equipment (UE) including a bitmap, each bit of at least part of the bitmap corresponding to one of the at least one secondary component carrier;
wherein the MAC control element is configured with each bit of the bitmap, corresponding to the one of the at least one secondary component carrier that the UE is to monitor data, respectively set to “1”, and
wherein the data is monitored by the UE on the primary component carrier and the one of the at least one secondary component carrier corresponding to the at least one bit among the bitmap set to “1”.