Patent ID: 9596058
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A device for a base station comprising: a medium access control (MAC) entity configured to receive one or more transport blocks for transmission to one or more transport channels from one or more logical channels, the MAC entity including a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity configured to receive acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) from a user equipment (LE) for the transmitted one or more transport blocks; and transmission circuitry configured to transmit data via the transport channels according to a priority scheme comprising a first priority for control data and a second priority for retransmission data, the second priority lower than the first priority, wherein the retransmission data comprises a transport block, the transport block being associated with a NACK received from the UE.