Chapter 14: Scheduling

Abstract

Scheduling is a central part of an NR system. This chapter discusses the basic principles for scheduling together with the scheduling framework and supporting functions used for uplink and downlink scheduling in NR. Power-saving features in NR are also described.

Keywords

Scheduling; Buffer-status reports; Scheduling request; Power-headroom report; Semi-persistent scheduling; Half-duplex FDD; Discontinuous reception (DRX); Preemption handling; Wake-up signal; Cell dormancy; Bandwidth adaptation

NR is essentially a scheduled system, implying that the scheduler determines when and to which devices the time, frequency, and spatial resources should be assigned and what transmission parameters, including data ...

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