CPC H04L 5/0046 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0046 (2013.01); H04L 1/0061 (2013.01); H04L 1/0068 (2013.01); H04L 1/1845 (2013.01); H04L 1/1864 (2013.01); H04L 5/0005 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04L 5/0094 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] | 11 Claims |
1. A base station configured to:
decode, by a receiver of the base station, a first part of a codeword received from a user equipment;
detect a second part of the received codeword using a multi-user detector;
determine if the decoding of the first part of the codeword is successful; and
1) based on the determination that the decoding of the first part of the codeword is successful, send an acknowledgement to the user equipment; or
2) based on the determination that the decoding of the first part of the codeword is not successful and the detection of the second part of the codeword is successful:
combine the first part and the second part of the codeword to form a combined codeword;
decode the combined codeword;
determine if the decoding of the combined codeword is successful; and
i) based on the determination that the decoding of the combined codeword is successful, send an acknowledgement to the user equipment; or
ii) based on either the decoding of the first part of the codeword not being successful or the decoding of the combined codeword not being successful, send a negative acknowledgement to the user equipment.
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