methods and apparatus for indicating and implementing new eu capacity

摘要

The methods and apparatus are provided for manipulating the new eu capacity. in a new respect, eu reports new eu capacity for an enb, determines if enb supports new eu capacity and monitors a new dci format to implement new eu capacity in uss, if enb supports new capacity eu, otherwise monitors for a standard dci format to implement the eu's default eu capability. in one embodiment, eu is an nb-iot device and reports the new eu capability in msg3. in one embodiment, eu obtains a configuration in the system information to determine if enb supports the new eu capability. in another embodiment, eu gets an indication on a dedicated rrc signaling to determine if enb supports the new eu capability. In one embodiment, the new dci format includes an indicator for harq process number.