Patent ID: 9660786
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W,H05K

Claim:
1. A method, at a wireless device, comprising: receiving, at the wireless device, a higher layer signaling message including, for each of a plurality of transmit power control (TPC) command for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) values, a mapping of the TPC for PUCCH value to an orthogonal resource index for a first antenna and an orthogonal resource index for a second antenna; receiving, at the wireless device, a downlink control channel, wherein said downlink control channel includes information in a TPC command for a PUCCH field; determining, at the wireless device a first orthogonal resource based on the received information and the received mapping; determining, at the wireless device, a second orthogonal resource based on the received information and the received mapping; spreading, at the wireless device, an uplink message using said first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading, at the wireless device, the uplink message using said second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting said first spread signal using a first antenna of the wireless device; and transmitting said second spread signal using a second antenna of the wireless device.