Patent ID: 9712310
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for network communications comprising: receiving, by antennas of a base station (BS) from a plurality of user equipments (UEs), a plurality of radio frequency signals; converting the plurality of radio frequency signals to a plurality of baseband signals, wherein the plurality of baseband signals comprises a plurality of received channel quality indicator (CQI) symbols and one or more acknowledgement (ACK) symbols; selecting, by the BS, a reduced set of candidate CQI symbols by comparing a plurality of candidate CQI symbols with the plurality of received CQI symbols; generating, by the BS, a plurality of combinations of candidate CQI and ACK symbols by combining the reduced set of candidate CQI symbols with candidate ACK symbols; and detecting, by the BS, the plurality of received CQI symbols and the one or more ACK symbols by comparing the plurality of combinations of candidate CQI and ACK symbols with the plurality of received CQI symbols and the one or more ACK symbols, comprising: