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AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsHua Xu, Jianglei Ma
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Systems and methods of scheduling for lower-layer transport block-based UE cooperation are provided. One or more PDCCH are used to schedule a downlink joint UE transmission, which may also be referred to as a UE cooperation (UC) transmission, from a transmitter and involving a first UE, also referred to as a target UE, and a second UE, also referred to as a cooperative UE. This may involve transmission of a single PDCCH to the transmitter, or transmitting a respective PDCCH to each of the transmitter and the second UE. The first UE receives a first TB based on scheduling information in the PDCCH. The second UE receives a second TB as part of the joint/UC transmission. Various design options for downlink control information carrying the scheduling information are provided.
A method comprising:
An apparatus comprising at least one processor coupled with a memory storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause a user equipment (UE) to execute operations comprising:
A method comprising:
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