Patent ID: 9585162
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, by a base station, for transmitting a scheduling assignment (SA) being a first scheduling type or a second scheduling type in a communication system, the method comprising: generating the SA including a plurality of information elements (IEs), wherein, when generating an SA of the second scheduling type, each bit included in a first IE of the plurality of IEs and a predefined bit included in a second IE of the plurality of IEs are set with a first value; and transmitting the generated SA to a terminal, wherein a transmitted SA is validated on the terminal as the second scheduling type if each bit included in the first IE of the plurality of IEs and the predefined bit included in the second IE of the plurality of IEs are set with the first value, and, if the transmitted SA is validated as the second scheduling type, an action corresponding to the second scheduling type is performed on the terminal.