Patent ID: 9350509
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: allocating to a terminal device multiple terminal device-specific physical uplink control channel resources for a transmission of a scheduling request from the terminal device, wherein the terminal device-specific physical uplink control channel resources are in a plurality of subframes or in a same subframe, and wherein the transmission of the scheduling request comprises multiple physical uplink control channel transmissions taking place on the allocated resources; allocating the physical uplink control channel resources to multiple terminal devices, wherein each terminal device is given a unique sequence of the physical uplink control channel resources, wherein each unique sequence differs at least by one physical uplink control channel resource from another sequence, and dividing a pool of physical uplink control channel resources comprising the resources available for generating the unique sequences such that only a predetermined portion of the pool is available for a predetermined group of terminal devices.