FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: various aspects described herein facilitate explicit creation and transmission of a bundled assignment of downlink communication resources and uplink resources for ACK transmission, thereby facilitating overhead-efficient ACK allocation for users that can communicate pursuant to a persistent resource assignment without requiring scheduling information from an associated control channel. Additionally, indexing schemes for uplink ACK resources are provided herein to facilitate ACK allocation for systems in which both scheduled and persistent users can communicate at a common transmission time interval (TTI).
EFFECT: methods with low overheads for allocating ACK resources, which support user equipment establishing communication based on persistent resource allocation.
35 cl, 16 dwg
