Patent ID: 9106375
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. For use in a wireless communication network, a subscriber station configured to communicate with at least one base station in the wireless communication network, the subscriber station comprising: a plurality of antennas; and a controller coupled to the plurality of antennas and configured to control the plurality of antennas to receive a plurality of resource allocation messages included in at least one resource allocation region, the at least one resource allocation region partitioned into a plurality of sub-regions, wherein a first sub-region includes at least one of the plurality of resource allocation messages, each of the plurality of resource allocation messages having a same size and a common modulation and coding scheme (MCS), and wherein the controller is configured to blind decode the at least one of the resource allocation messages without testing multiple resource allocation sizes or different MCS hypotheses and cease the blind decoding at the end of the first sub-region.