Wireless telecommunications apparatuses and methods

A circuitry for a base station for use in a telecommunications system, the base station is to communicate data to and from a plurality of terminals, wherein the circuitry comprises a controller element and a transceiver element configured to operate together to:

• identify downlink data to be transmitted by a first terminal of the plurality of terminals;
• dynamically select, upon identification of downlink data to be transmitted by a first terminal of the plurality of terminals, a set of resources for transmitting the downlink data, wherein the base station being configured to dynamically select the set of resources comprises the base station being configured to selecting a subset of the frequency band and a subset of the time period of the uplink resources, the selected set of resources being based on the subset of the frequency band and the subset of the time period;
• notify the first ten final of the selected set of resources;
• receive the downlink data from the first terminal transmitted using the selected set of resources;
• and
• receive, from the first terminal, an indicator, the indicator comprising one or more of:
• an indication of an uplink transmission power and/or a type of uplink data;
• and
• a preference to use resources of the downlink resources or resources other than the downlink resources,
• wherein the downlink resources comprise a reserved set of resources, the set of resources being selected from resources of the downlink resources outside of the reserved set of resources, thereby using the reserved set of resources exclusively for downlink transmissions,
• wherein the reserved set of resources is selected based on information about downlink and/or uplink transmissions for a neighboring base station so as to reduce interferences between transmissions for the base station and the neighboring base station, and
• wherein a system bandwidth for the selected set of resources includes a first portion that is distributed and a second portion different from the first portion that is contiguous.

A method of operating a terminal in a telecommunications system comprising a base station to communicate data to and from the terminal and a plurality of terminals, the terminal being configured to receive downlink signals using downlink resources in a frequency band and in a first time period, the method comprising:

• notifying the base station of an uplink data to be transmitted;
• in response to the notifying, receiving an indication of a selected set of resources for transmitting the uplink data, wherein the set of resources is selected based on a subset of the frequency band and on a subset of the time period of the downlink resources;
• and
• transmitting the uplink data using the selected set of resources,
• wherein the downlink resources comprise a reserved set of resources, the set of resources being selected from resources of the downlink resources outside of the reserved set of resources, thereby using the reserved set of resources exclusively for downlink transmissions,
• wherein the reserved set of resources is selected based on information about downlink and/or uplink transmissions for a neighboring base station so as to reduce interferences between transmissions for the base station and the neighboring base station, and
• wherein a system bandwidth for the selected set of resources includes a first portion that is distributed and a second portion different from the first portion that is contiguous.