CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) [H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04W 72/569 (2023.01); H04L 1/1812 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
1. A method of operating a communications device to transmit data to a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
processing first uplink data and second uplink data for transmission on grant free resources of a physical uplink shared channel of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, the grant free resources providing communications resources in each of a plurality of time divided units of the wireless access interface for transmitting the first uplink data and the second uplink data, the first uplink data being processed for transmission in the grant free resources according to a first configuration of the plurality of configurations, and the second uplink data being processed for transmission in the grant free resources according to a second configuration of the plurality of configurations,
determining that transmission according to the second configuration has a relative priority which is higher than transmission according to the first configuration,
scheduling transmission of the second uplink data according to the second configuration in preference to transmission of the first uplink data in accordance with the relative priority between the first configuration and the second configuration, and
transmitting the second uplink data in the grant free resources according to the selected second configuration, wherein
the first configuration includes a transmission period, for transmitting one or more transport blocks of the first uplink data in the grant free resources, and a starting position of the transmission period of the first uplink data in one of the time divided units of the wireless access interface for transmitting the first uplink data in the grant free resources, and
the second configuration includes a transmission period for transmitting the one or more transport blocks of the second uplink data in the grant free resources, and a starting position of the transmission period of the second uplink data in one of the time divided units of the wireless access interface for transmitting the second data in the grant free resources, the starting position and the transmission period being independent for the first configuration and the second configuration.
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