| CPC H04W 72/0446 (2013.01) | 20 Claims |

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11. A terminal in a communication system, the terminal comprising:
a transceiver; and
a processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to:
receive, via higher layer signaling, first slot offset information for a first slot offset between two cells for carrier aggregation with un-aligned frame boundaries,
receive, in a first slot of a scheduling cell, downlink control information (DCI) scheduling data,
identify a second slot offset based on the DCI,
identify a second slot of a scheduled cell for the data based on the first slot of the scheduling cell, the first slot offset, and the second slot offset, and
communicate the data in the second slot of the scheduled cell.
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