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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsHideji WAKABAYASHI, Matthew William WEBB, Yuichi MORIOKA, Stephen TRUELOVE
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Apparatus and method providing feedback on channel conditions in a wireless telecommunications system including a base station arranged to communicate with plural terminals device using frequencies spanning a system frequency bandwidth. At least one terminal device is a reduced capability terminal device including a tuneable transceiver configured to receive downlink transmissions from the base station using only a restricted frequency bandwidth which is smaller than and within the system frequency bandwidth. The reduced capability terminal device is configured to communicate information derived from measurements of channel conditions to the base station. The information may include an indication of measured channel conditions for the different frequency locations, or an indication of one or more frequency locations for which the corresponding measurement of channel conditions meet a pre-defined selection criterion. The base station subsequently schedules downlink transmissions for the terminal device in taking account of the information received from the terminal device.
A method of operating a base station in a wireless telecommunications system comprising a base station arranged to communicate with a plurality of terminal devices using frequencies spanning a system frequency bandwidth, wherein the plurality of terminal devices includes a reduced capability terminal device comprising a tuneable transceiver configured to receive downlink transmissions from the base station using a restricted frequency bandwidth which is smaller than and within the system frequency bandwidth, and wherein the method comprises:
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A base station for use in a wireless telecommunications system comprising a base station arranged to communicate with a plurality of terminal devices using frequencies spanning a system frequency bandwidth, wherein the plurality of terminal devices includes a reduced capability terminal device comprising a tuneable transceiver configured to receive downlink transmissions from the base station using a restricted frequency bandwidth which is smaller than and within the system frequency bandwidth, and wherein the base station is configured to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.