Patent ID: 9629134
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for assisting in uplink transmission, the method comprising: acquiring, by a first base station, auxiliary uplink control information of a user equipment; sending, by the first base station, the auxiliary uplink control information to a second base station for scheduling uplink data for the user equipment according to the auxiliary uplink control information; determining, by the first base station, at least one of scheduling information, a happy bit, and reference grant information is the auxiliary uplink control information of the user equipment; acquiring, by the first base station, the scheduling information and the happy bit from the user equipment; determining, by the first base station, according to quality of an uplink link from the user equipment to the first base station, the reference grant information that needs to be sent to the user equipment; and sending, by the first base station, timing information to the second base station if