Virtual carrier aggregation for wideband operation of wireless communication systems

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a system comprising a processor, downlink transmission data comprising downlink control information applicable to a downlink channel of a network device of network devices;
• as a function of the downlink transmission data, adjusting, by the system, a subband of subbands resulting in an aggregation of multiple subbands comprising a lower frequency block, wherein the lower frequency block is determined based on a physical resource block size associated with the subbands of the aggregation of multiple subbands;
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• in response to determining that a mobile device is in an idle state, facilitating, by the system, a use of the aggregation of multiple subbands, by the mobile device, as a proxy for a base station device.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• sending, to a user equipment device, downlink transmission data comprising downlink control information applicable to a downlink channel of a network device of network devices;
• as a function of the downlink transmission data, facilitating adjusting, at the user equipment device, a subband of subbands resulting in an aggregation of multiple subbands comprising an upper frequency block, wherein the upper frequency block is determined based on a physical resource block size associated with the subbands of the aggregation of multiple subbands;
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• in response to determining that the user equipment device is in a idle mode, facilitating the aggregation of multiple subbands being used by the user equipment device as a proxy for a base station device.