Patent ID: 9661650
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of wireless communication implemented by a user equipment, the method comprising: identifying a first index assigned to the user equipment for a scheduled downlink transmission from a base station, wherein the first index is based on a first control channel element (CCE) of an assignment for the scheduled downlink transmission in a downlink control channel; identifying an offset among information received from the base station; and transmitting, to the base station, acknowledgement information for the scheduled downlink transmission over acknowledgement resources having a second index, wherein the acknowledgement resources having the second index are of an indexed common resource pool comprising an allocated subset of radio frequency spectrum resources, and wherein the second index represents a sum of the first index and the identified offset and corresponds to spectrum resources of the allocated subset of radio frequency spectrum resources assigned to the user equipment for transmitting the acknowledgement information.