Patent ID: 9717079
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a user equipment, the method comprising: acquiring configuration information regarding a downlink control information message for a physical uplink shared channel transmission; receiving the downlink control information message on a physical downlink control channel in a first subframe, the downlink control information message indicating a plurality of resource assignments in a second subframe for an uplink carrier from which the user equipment selects one resource assignment for transmission on the uplink carrier, where the downlink control information message is cyclic redundancy check scrambled by a radio network temporary identifier that is indicated via higher layers that are higher than a physical layer; selecting a resource assignment from the plurality of resource assignments using a selection criterion; and transmitting a data packet on the physical uplink shared channel in a resource of the selected resource assignment in the second subframe on the uplink carrier.