Patent ID: 8711789
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining a plurality of contention-based resource zones for a shared channel of the base station, each of the contention-based resource zones comprising a respective number of physical resource blocks; assigning a respective modulation and coding scheme to each of the contention-based resource zones, resulting in assigned modulation and coding schemes; obtaining, for each of the contention-based resource zones, a respective minimum power headroom value to be considered by user equipment devices in the wireless communication system, resulting in obtained minimum power headroom values; and sending contention-based configuration data to user equipment devices in the wireless communication system, the contention-based configuration data comprising zone data that identifies the plurality of contention-based resource zones, modulation and coding scheme data that identifies the assigned modulation and coding schemes, and minimum power headroom data that identifies the obtained minimum power headroom values.