Patent ID: 9713158
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: receiving, at an evolved NodeB (eNB), at least one power headroom report from a mobile device; determining an ending resource block (RB) index and a length of a contiguous RB allocation in a plurality of RBs currently allocated to the mobile device; identifying, based on the ending RB index and the length of the contiguous RB allocation, a power relaxation allowance in a table of power relaxation allowances; determining an available power of the mobile device based on the identified power relaxation allowance and the at least one power headroom report; and scheduling the mobile device for uplink transmission based, at least in part, on the determined available power, wherein the ending RB index comprises an indication of proximity to a protected band for identifying the power relaxation allowance, and wherein the scheduled uplink transmission by the mobile device does not extend beyond the ending RB index.