Automatic radio resource allocation pattern generation for spectrum efficiency in complex communication systems

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is for generating a resource allocation pattern (RAP) of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal transmitted between a base station including N cells and a mobile device, where N is one or more, the OFDM signal transmitted in either a frequency domain duplex (FDD) mode or a time domain duplex (TDD) mode. The method includes setting a time duration of the RAP, retrieving a TDD uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration setting indicative of successive OFDM slots including DL-only slots, UL-only slots and flexible slots, and processing the TDD UL/DL configuration to obtain an initial resource allocation pattern in which the TDD UL/DL configuration is repeated to match the set time duration of the RAP, and in which the flexible slots among the repeated TDD UL/DL configuration are set as DL slots or UL slots. For each of the N cells, the method further includes determining the set of UL resource allocations comprising downlink control information (DCI) and the offset to the corresponding UL signals for the RAP, and determining the set of DL allocations including DCI and Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) resources for the RAP.

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