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US 10,855,409 B2Granted
Media access control header and transport block formats
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsAziz Gholmieh, Shailesh Maheshwari, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Yue Yang, Leena Zacharias, Gang Xiao, Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi
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Abstract
Various aspects described herein relate to encoding or decoding a media access control (MAC) layer transport block having an enhanced MAC header format, a split and partial MAC header, and a MAC transport block design. A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The techniques described herein may apply to different communications technologies, including 5th Generation (5G) or New Radio (NR), wireless communications technology.
Claims29
A method of wireless communications, comprising:
- generating a transport block comprising a plurality of service data units allocated to a plurality of logical channels, wherein the transport block further comprises:
- a plurality of media access control sub-headers associated with each of the plurality of service data units;
- and
- a single media access control overall header, the single media access control overall header indicating an association of distinct service data unit groups of the plurality of service data units to distinct logical channels of the plurality of logical channels to facilitate processing of the distinct service data unit groups in parallel, the single media access control overall header further indicating at least a starting position of the service data units for each distinct logical channel of the plurality of logical channels, and the single media access control overall header is distinct from the plurality of media access control sub-headers for each the plurality of service data units;
- and
- transmitting the transport block to a device.
3 more elements
An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
- a transceiver;
- a memory configured to store instructions;
- and
- at least one processor communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
- generate a transport block comprising a plurality of service data units allocated to a plurality of logical channels, wherein the transport block further comprises:
- a plurality of media access control sub-headers associated with each of the plurality of service data units;
- and
- a single media access control overall header, the single media access control overall header indicating an association of distinct service data unit groups of the plurality of service data units to distinct logical channels of the plurality of logical channels to facilitate processing of the distinct service data unit groups in parallel, the single media access control overall header further indicating at least a starting position of the service data units for each distinct logical channel of the plurality of logical channels, and the single media access control overall header is distinct from the plurality of media access control sub-headers for each the plurality of service data units;
- and
- transmit the transport block to a device.
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An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:
- means for generating a transport block comprising a plurality of service data units allocated to a plurality of logical channels, wherein the transport block further comprises:
- a plurality of media access control sub-headers associated with each of the plurality of service data units;
- and
- a single media access control overall header, the single media access control overall header indicating an association of distinct service data unit groups of the plurality of service data units to distinct logical channels of the plurality of logical channels to facilitate processing of the distinct service data unit groups in parallel, the single media access control overall header further indicating at least a starting position of the service data units for each distinct logical channel of the plurality of logical channels, and the single media access control overall header is distinct from the plurality of media access control sub-headers for each the plurality of service data units;
- and
- means for transmitting the transport block to a device.
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A computer-readable medium storing computer executable code for wireless communication, comprising code for:
- generating a transport block comprising a plurality of service data units allocated to a plurality of logical channels, wherein the transport block further comprises:
- a plurality of media access control sub-headers associated with each of the plurality of service data units;
- and
- a single media access control overall header, the single media access control overall header indicating an association of distinct service data unit groups of the plurality of service data units to distinct logical channels of the plurality of logical channels to facilitate processing of the distinct service data unit groups in parallel, the single media access control overall header further indicating at least a starting position of the service data units for each distinct logical channel of the plurality of logical channels, and the single media access control overall header is distinct from the plurality of media access control sub-headers for each the plurality of service data units;
- and
- transmitting the transport block to a device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.