Subframe availability for machine type communications (MTC)
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsAlberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu
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Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and more specifically to a method for machine type communications involving identifying one or more subframes, within at least one radio frame, unavailable for bundled transmissions across multiple subframes and communicating, via at least one narrowband region within a wider system bandwidth, using bundled transmissions across multiple subframes based on the identification.
Claims29
A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
- identifying one or more subframes, within at least one radio frame, unavailable for bundled transmissions across multiple subframes, wherein the one or more subframes unavailable for bundled transmissions comprise a first group comprising subframes that are determined not available for bundled transmissions to any UE that communicates using a narrowband region and a second group comprising subframes that are determined not available for bundled transmissions to one or more particular UEs;
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- communicating, via the narrowband region, using bundled transmissions across multiple subframes based on the identification.
An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:
- at least one processor configured to identify one or more subframes, within at least one radio frame, unavailable for bundled transmissions across multiple subframes, wherein the one or more subframes unavailable for bundled transmissions comprise a first group comprising subframes that are determined not available for bundled transmissions to any UE that communicates using a narrowband region and a second group comprising subframes that are determined not available for bundled transmissions to one or more particular UEs;
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- an interface configured to communicate, via the narrowband region, using bundled transmissions across multiple subframes based on the identification.
An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:
- means for identifying one or more subframes, within at least one radio frame, unavailable for bundled transmissions across multiple subframes, wherein the one or more subframes unavailable for bundled transmissions comprise a first group comprising subframes that are determined not available for bundled transmissions to any UE that communicates using a narrowband region and a second group comprising subframes that are determined not available for bundled transmissions to one or more particular UEs;
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- means for communicating, via the narrowband region, using bundled transmissions across multiple subframes based on the identification.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions that when executed, cause a user equipment (UE) to:
- identify one or more subframes, within at least one radio frame, unavailable for bundled transmissions across multiple subframes, wherein the one or more subframes unavailable for bundled transmissions comprise a first group comprising subframes that are determined not available for bundled transmissions to any UE that communicates using a narrowband region and a second group comprising subframes that are determined not available for bundled transmissions to one or more particular UEs;
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- communicate, via the narrowband region, using bundled transmissions across multiple subframes based on the identification.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.