Patent ID: 9386583
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for determining uplink resources, the method comprising: assigning index values for control channel elements, the control channel elements being allocated to at least one of first and second control channel transmission sets, the uplink resources being based on the index values, and an uplink resource for the first control channel transmission being different than an uplink resource for the second control channel transmission, wherein the first control channel transmission set are for localized transmissions and the second control channel transmission set are for distributed transmissions and the assigning index values for control channel elements includes, assigning the index values for the first control channel transmission set such that the index values for the first control channel transmission set are sequential; and assigning virtual index values for the second control channel transmission set based on the index values for the first control channel transmission set.