APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONOUS MULTIPLEXING AND MULTIPLE ACCESS FOR DIFFERENT LATENCY TARGETS UTILISING THIN CONTROL Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC H04W72/12 

FIELD: wireless communication equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to wireless communication systems. Thin control channel may carry information that enables ongoing transmissions utilising a first, relatively long transmission time interval (TTI) to be punctured, and during the punctured portion of the long TTI, a transmission utilising a second, relatively short TTI may be inserted. This puncturing is enabled by virtue of a thin channel structure wherein a control channel can carry scheduling information, grants, etc., informing receiving devices of the puncturing that is occurring or will occur. Furthermore, the thin control channel can be utilised to carry other control information, not being limited to puncturing information.

EFFECT: provision of synchronous multiplexing of various classes of services and traffic with different latency targets by using a thin control channel.

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