Systems and methods for scheduling wireless communications

A method comprising:

• receiving first higher layer signaling at a user equipment (UE), the first higher layer signaling indicating a transmission mode, wherein the transmission mode is associated with at least a downlink control information (DCI) type;
• the DCI type having a format that does not explicitly indicate at least one parameter associated with a transport block (TB) scheduled by the DCI type, wherein the at least one parameter comprises at least one of:
• time resources on which the TB is transmitted, frequency resources on which the TB is transmitted, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of the TB;
• a redundancy version (RV) of the TB;
• and a transport block size (TBS) of the TB;
• receiving second higher layer signaling at the UE, the second higher layer signaling indicating to the UE the at least one parameter associated with the TB;
• and
• receiving the DCI type at the UE.

An apparatus comprising:

• a higher layer signaling generator to generate first higher layer signaling for a user equipment (UE), the first higher layer signaling indicating a transmission mode, wherein the transmission mode is associated with at least a downlink control information (DCI) type;
• the DCI type having a format that does not explicitly indicate at least one parameter associated with a transport block (TB) scheduled by the DCI type, wherein the at least one parameter comprises at least one of:
• time resources on which the TB is transmitted, frequency resources on which the TB is transmitted, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of the TB;
• a redundancy version (RV) of the TB;
• and a transport block size (TBS) of the TB;
• a transmitter to transmit the first higher layer signaling to the UE;
• the higher layer signaling generator to further generate second higher layer signaling for the UE, the second higher layer signaling indicating to the UE the at least one parameter associated with the TB;
• the transmitter to also transmit the second higher layer signaling to the UE;
• a DCI generator to generate the DCI type to schedule the TB;
• the transmitter to also transmit the DCI type to the UE.

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• a receiver to:
• receive first higher layer signaling at a user equipment (UE), the first higher layer signaling indicating a transmission mode, wherein the transmission mode is associated with at least a downlink control information (DCI) type;
• the DCI type having a format that does not explicitly indicate at least one parameter associated with a transport block (TB) scheduled by the DCI type, wherein the at least one parameter comprises at least one of:
• time resources on which the TB is transmitted, frequency resources on which the TB is transmitted, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of the TB;
• a redundancy version (RV) of the TB;
• and a transport block size (TBS) of the TB;
• receive second higher layer signaling at the UE, the second higher layer signaling indicating to the UE the at least one parameter associated with the TB;
• and
• receive the DCI type at the UE;
• a downlink message processor to decode the DCI type.