Patent ID: 9537633
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for communicating control information in a carrier aggregation configuration, comprising: receiving, at a user equipment (UE) from a first cell, a first resource assignment for a first downlink carrier of a first radio access technology (RAT); receiving, at the UE from a second cell different than the first cell, a second resource assignment for a second downlink carrier of a second RAT, wherein the first downlink carrier and the second downlink carrier are aggregated for communicating data in a wireless network; determining, by the UE, resources for communicating first RAT control data for the first RAT over an uplink carrier corresponding to the first downlink carrier based at least in part on the first resource assignment; determining, by the UE, a first processing time corresponding to the first RAT, that is different from a second processing time defined by the second RAT, by selecting the first processing time from a plurality of processing times based at least in part on channel characteristics related to a channel of the second RAT, wherein the first processing time is for communicating the second RAT control data over a portion of the resources for communicating the first RAT control data, and wherein the first processing time is configured to minimize a time difference to the second processing time defined by the second RAT; and communicating, by the UE, second RAT control data using a control channel of the uplink carrier of the first RAT over at least the portion of the resources for communicating the first RAT control data based only on the first processing time, wherein communicating includes adapting the second RAT control data for transmitting on the control channel of the first RAT.