Patent ID: 9614654
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: monitoring, at a user equipment (UE), for control information in a first control region and a second control region of a subframe, the first control region and the second control region not overlapping in time; receiving, at the UE, the control information in the first control region or the second control region, wherein a maximum transport block size for a downlink transmission is based at least in part on whether the control information is received in the first control region or the second control region, the maximum transport block size has a first size when the control information is received in the first control region that only occupies a first slot of the subframe, the maximum transport block size has a second size when the control information is received in the second control region that occupies both the first slot and a second slot of the subframe, and the first size is different from the second size; and decoding the control information, wherein a decoding time for the control information is based at least in part on whether the control information is received in the first control region or the second control region.