Patent ID: 11910391
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method for managing communications with user equipments by a base station over a wireless link, the method comprising:
establishing a group user equipment-identifier (a group UE-ID) for a subset of user equipments included in a plurality of user equipments by deriving the group UE-ID from at least a user equipment-specific identifier (a UE-specific ID) assigned to a user equipment included in the plurality of user equipments;
transmitting a non-orthogonal multiple access configuration message to the plurality of user equipments using the wireless link, the non-orthogonal multiple access configuration message including a plurality of multiple access signatures and available time-frequency resources for uplink transmissions from the plurality of user equipments;
detecting a non-orthogonal multiple access uplink transmission in a first time-frequency resource of the available time-frequency resources and based on the group UE-ID, the non-orthogonal multiple access uplink transmission including a multiple access signature from the plurality of multiple access signatures and uplink control information; and
receiving a non-orthogonal multiple access uplink data transmission, from the user equipment, in a second time-frequency resource of the available time-frequency resources based at least on the uplink control information.