Uplink resources for ultra-reliable and low latency communication

An access node comprising:

• at least one processor, and
• at least one memory comprising a computer program code, wherein the processor, the memory, and the computer program code are configured to cause the access node to:
• sense on a channel allocated for transmissions of scheduling requests for a low latency communication service, a scheduling request from a terminal device;
• send, in response to not being able to decode terminal device identification information from the scheduling request, to one or more terminal devices, which are using a resource pool allocated for contention based transmissions of low latency communication services to transmissions of data services, an instruction to stop use of the resource pool.

A terminal device comprising:

• at least one processor, and
• at least one memory comprising a computer program code, wherein the processor, the memory, and the computer program code are configured to cause the terminal device to perform at least one of the following:
• send, in response to not receiving a response to a scheduling request sent by the terminal device on a channel allocated for transmissions of scheduling requests for low latency communication services within a predetermined time, data in a contention based manner over a resource pool allocated for contention based transmissions of the low latency communication services;
• stop, in response to receiving when using for transmissions of a data service resources on the resource pool, from an access node providing the resource pool, an instruction to stop the use of the resource pool to transmissions of the data service, the use of the resource pool to transmissions of the data service, and send again, in response to one of a lapse of a predetermined time and receiving from the access node a permission to continue the use of the resource pool, transmissions of the data service using the resource pool.