Patent ID: 9380569
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile communications network for communicating data to and/or from mobile terminals, the mobile communications network comprising: a base station including a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter and receiver are configured to provide a wireless access interface for communicating the data to and/or from the mobile terminals and a scheduler for allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface to the mobile terminals for communicating the data; the wireless access interface is configured to provide the mobile communications network is configured to the base station is configured to use the short identification number to allocate a particular sub-set of the plurality of units of communications resource, from a particular one of the super-frames, to each of the mobile terminals in a corresponding group of the plurality of different groups, the control information provides, for each of a plurality of mobile terminals in a first of the groups, a first short identification number associated with the identification number allocated to the respective mobile terminal by the mobile communications network for use in allocating the units of communications resource to the one or more mobile terminals in the first group for the first super-frame, the control information provides, for each of a plurality of mobile terminals in a second of the groups, a second short identification number associated with the identification number allocated to the respective mobile terminal by the mobile communications network for use in allocating the units of communications resource to the mobile terminals of the second group for a second super-frame, the second short identification number is different than the first short identification number, and in the first super-frame, one of the short identification numbers is allocated to identify a different mobile terminal from the mobile terminals in the second group of devices associated with the second super-frame.