Patent ID: 11949509
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A communication method using a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme by a base station, the communication method comprising:
transmitting, to a plurality of terminals, configuration information about a transmission pattern assigned to each terminal of the plurality of terminals, wherein the configuration information comprises at least one transmission pattern candidate set;
receiving data, from at least two terminals among the plurality of terminals, using the NOMA scheme, in at least one of a slot or a resource block (RB); and
distinguishing data corresponding to each of the at least two terminals from the received data, based on a terminal-specific transmission pattern of each of the at least two terminals and an identifier of each of the at least two terminals,
wherein the data is processed by each of the at least two terminals, according to the terminal-specific transmission pattern per slot or RB determined by performing randomization among the at least one transmission pattern candidate set based on at least one of an index of the slot or the RB.