Patent ID: 9699779
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for providing physical layer resources to a plurality of medium access control (MAC) instances, the method comprising: a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) utilizing a first physical layer configuration for sending a first transmission to a first serving site in accordance with a first uplink grant received from the first serving site, a first MAC instance being associated with a first group of one or more cells served by the first serving site; the WTRU utilizing a second physical layer configuration for sending a second transmission to a second serving site in accordance with a second uplink grant received from the second serving site, a second MAC instance being associated with a second group of one or more cells served by the second serving site; and the WTRU allocating at least a portion of transmission power between the first transmission associated with the first MAC instance sent to the first serving site and the second transmission associated with the second MAC instance sent to the second serving site based on tiered priority rules, wherein a first tier priority rule comprises prioritizing transmissions that include uplink control information (UCI) over transmissions that do not include UCI, a second tier priority rule comprises prioritizing transmissions including a first type of UCI over transmissions including a second type of UCI, and a third tier priority rule comprises prioritizing transmissions associated with cells corresponding to a primary MAC instance over transmissions associated with cells corresponding to a secondary MAC instance.