Patent ID: 9641303
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. At a network component, a method for providing increased signature space for multiplexed transmissions for a plurality of users, the method comprising: obtaining, by the network component, a set of basic signatures; generating, by the network component, a set of virtual signatures using an operation on the basic signatures, wherein each of the virtual signatures comprises a combination of at least some of the basic signatures, wherein the generating maps a first space of the set basic signatures into a second space of the set of virtual signatures, and wherein the second space is larger than the first space; repeating, by the network component, the obtaining and the generating to produce a plurality of virtual signature sets, each of the plurality of virtual sets comprising a combination of virtual signatures; and provisioning, by the network component, each virtual signature set of the plurality of virtual signature sets as one of a plurality of basic resource unit (BRU) sets, each BRU set comprising a combination of BRUs, for a corresponding user transmission, from each of the plurality of users, utilizing the second larger space of the each virtual signature set.