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AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorsAlexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Hidetoshi Suzuki
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The invention relates to a method for communicating based on a flexible TDD configuration by introducing flexible subframes, selectively usable as a downlink or uplink subframe in a manner avoids a transition from a (non-)flexible downlink subframe n to a (non-)flexible uplink subframe n+1. Furthermore, the invention allows reducing the number and types of uplink transmissions that would be pending for a flexible subframe, by defining HARQ uplink feedback timings based on the HARQ uplink feedback timings for the static TDD configurations such that HARQ uplink feedback is never transmitted in a flexible subframe, and also by releasing configurations for periodic uplink transmissions such as, SPS-scheduled uplink data transmissions, periodic CSI report, uplink sounding, random access, and scheduling requests.
A method for communicating between a mobile station and a base station in a communication system based on one out of at least one flexible Time Division Duplex (TDD) configuration,
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A mobile station for communicating with a base station in a communication system based on one out of at least one flexible Time Division Duplex (TDD) configuration,
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A base station for communicating with a mobile station in a communication system based on one out of at least one flexible Time Division Duplex (TDD) configuration, wherein each of the at least one flexible TDD configuration defines for a radio frame the subframes of the radio frame as an uplink subframe, a downlink subframe, a special subframe or a flexible subframe, and defines at least one subframe nflex of the radio frame as a flexible subframe such that
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