Patent ID: 8705441
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a processor configured to send an indication to a user equipment (UE) to operate in accordance with a multi-carrier multiplexing scheme for communicating with the apparatus or a single-carrier multiplexing scheme for communicating with the apparatus, determine if contiguous resource blocks are available to assign to the UE for the single-carrier multiplexing scheme, assign the contiguous resource blocks to the UE if the contiguous resource blocks are available and if an indication to operate in accordance with the single-carrier multiplexing scheme is sent, assign non-contiguous resource blocks to the UE if the contiguous resource blocks are not available and if an indication to operate in accordance with the multi-carrier multiplexing scheme is sent, and perform processing for a transmission received at the apparatus from the UE in accordance with the indicated multiplexing scheme; and a memory coupled to the processor.