Structure for OTA ENB-ENB communication
AssigneeNokia Siemens Networks Oy
InventorsTommi Koivisto, Jie Zhen Lin, Peter Skov, Chun Hai Yao
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Abstract
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a processor. In various embodiments, the processor may be configured to select either an uplink sub-frame or a special sub-frame to employ for base station-to-base station (B2B) communication in some embodiments, the processor may be configured to cause at least one user equipment (UE), associated with the apparatus, to either refrain from transmitting or substantially receiving during the selected sub-frame In various embodiments, the processor may be configured to transmit data, from the apparatus to a receiving BS, during at least a portion of the selected sub-frame.
Claims19
An apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and one or more memories including computer program code;
- the one or more memories and the computer program code being configured, with the one or more processors, to cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
- indicate to at least one user equipment, associated with the apparatus, that a sub-frame including either an extended guard period or an extended downlink pilot time slot portion will occur;
- cause the at least one user equipment, to refrain from either transmitting or substantially receiving within the sub-frame;
- and
- within at least a portion of either the extended guard period or the extended downlink pilot time slot, transmit data to a receiving base station.
A method comprising:
- indicating to at least one user equipment that a sub-frame including either an extended guard period or an extended downlink pilot time slot portion will occur;
- causing the at least one user equipment, associated with a transmitting base station, to refrain from either transmitting or substantially receiving within the sub-frame;
- and
- within at least a portion of either the extended guard period or the extended downlink pilot time slot, transmitting data from the transmitting base station to a receiving base station.
An apparatus comprising:
- a means for indicating to at least one user equipment, associated with the apparatus, that a sub-frame including either an extended guard period or an extended downlink pilot time slot portion will occur;
- a means for causing the at least one user equipment to refrain from either transmitting or substantially receiving within the selected sub-frame;
- and
- a means for transmitting data from a transmitting base station to a receiving base station within at least a portion of either the extended guard period or the extended downlink pilot time slot.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions capable of being executed by at least one machine, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the machine to:
- indicate to at least one user equipment, associated with the machine, that a sub-frame including either an extended guard period or an extended downlink pilot time slot portion will occur;
- cause at least one user equipment to refrain from either transmitting or substantially receiving within the selected sub-frame;
- and
- within at least a portion of either the extended guard period or the extended downlink pilot time slot, transmit data from a transmitting base station to a receiving base station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.