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US 2024/0267159 A1Published application
Managing mac pdu transmissions
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsJoachim Löhr, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
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Abstract
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for managing MAC PDU transmissions. An apparatus (300) includes a processor (305) that generates an empty MAC PDU according to an UL CG, the empty MAC PDU free of any MAC SDUs. The apparatus (300) includes a transceiver (325) that instructs the physical layer to transmit, to a network, the empty MAC PDU on a HARQ process associated with the UL CG. The processor (305) prevents autonomous retransmission of the empty MAC PDU to the network.
Claims15
An apparatus, comprising:
- a processor that generates an empty medium access control (“MAC”) protocol data unit (“PDU”) according to an uplink (“UL”) configured grant (“CG”), the empty MAC PDU free of any MAC service data units (“SDUs”);
- and
- a transceiver that instructs the physical layer to transmit, to a network, the empty MAC PDU on a hybrid automatic repeat request (“HARQ”) process associated with the UL CG,
- wherein the processor prevents autonomous retransmission of the empty MAC PDU to the network.
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A method, comprising:
- generating an empty medium access control (“MAC”) protocol data unit (“PDU”) according to an uplink (“UL”) configured grant (“CG”), the empty MAC PDU free of any MAC service data units (“SDUs”);
- instructing the physical layer to transmit, to a network, the empty MAC PDU on a hybrid automatic repeat request (“HARQ”) process associated with the UL CG;
- and
- preventing autonomous retransmission of the empty MAC PDU to the network.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a transceiver that:
- transmits, to a user equipment (“UE”), an indication to prevent autonomous retransmissions of empty medium access control (“MAC”) protocol data units (“PDUs”) for an uplink (“UL”) configured grant (“CG”), the empty MAC PDUs free of any MAC service data units (“SDUs”);
- and
- receives, from the UE, the empty MAC PDU on a hybrid automatic repeat request (“HARQ”) process associated with the UL CG.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.