Patent ID: 9538502
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of wireless communication by a base station (BS), comprising: transmitting on a control channel using a first portion of resources of at least one Physical Resource Block (PRB) pair of a subframe; providing an indication regarding whether a second portion of resources of the at least one PRB pair not used to transmit on the control channel is available for transmitting on a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH); allocating PDSCH resources of PRB pairs that are available for transmitting on a control channel using a first resource allocation granularity that comprises an integer number of one or more enhanced Control Channel Elements (eCCEs); and allocating PDSCH resources of PRB pairs that are not available for transmitting on a control channel using a second resource allocation granularity that is different from the first resource allocation granularity.