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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsTarik Tabet, Vinay R. Majjigi, Christian W. Mucke, Syed A. Mujtaba
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The disclosure describes apparatus and methods for including downlink control information (DCI) normally associated with the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) within a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to reduce power consumption for a user equipment (UE) operating in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio resource control (RRC) connected mode. An enhanced NodeB base station can be configured to generate DCI associated with a future downlink resource assignment or uplink grant for the UE on the PDSCH or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and then include this DCI within the payload of a current PDSCH communication, such that the PDCCH does not need to be decoded by the UE during a time when DCI for future PDSCH communication is included within a current PDSCH.
A method for reducing power consumption at a user equipment (UE) communicating within a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, the method comprising:
A mobile device, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a mobile device, cause the mobile device to:
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