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App. No. 15/551,944

DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD

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Patent No.
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App. No.
15/551,944
Abstract

Methods for data transmission are provided. A data-transmission method includes: utilizing a first sub-frame configuration to generate a first frame structure through a base station in a wireless communication network; utilizing a second sub-frame configuration to generate a second frame structure, wherein the length of each sub-frame in the second sub-frame configuration is several times the length of a sub-frame in the first sub-frame configuration; transmitting an indication of the second sub-frame configuration to some user equipment; and transmitting and receiving a signal for some user equipment by using the first frame structure and the second frame structure. The present disclosure provides a method to support TDD configuration in the narrowband system and the new wireless system in the future, which improves system performance.

Claims (30)

1 . A data-transmission method, comprising:

utilizing a first sub-frame configuration to generate a first frame structure by a base station in a wireless communication network;

utilizing a second sub-frame configuration to generate a second frame structure, wherein a length of each sub-frame in the second sub-frame configuration is several times a length of a sub-frame in the first sub-frame configuration;

transmitting an indication of the second sub-frame configuration to multiple user equipments (UEs); and

transmitting and receiving a signal for the UEs by using the first frame structure and the second frame structure.

2 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein utilizing the second sub-frame configuration to generate the second frame structure further comprises:

utilizing an uplink parameter to generate an uplink sub-frame, utilizing a downlink parameter to generate a downlink sub-frame, and utilizing the uplink parameter and the downlink parameter to generate a special sub-frame.

3 . The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the special sub-frame comprises at least two of a downlink symbol, an uplink symbol, and a guard period.

4 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the indicator of the second sub-frame configuration comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing, a symbol length, a cyclic prefix length, a sampling rate, a number of FFT points, and an offset.

5 . The method as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising:

determining an offset between starting positions of the second frame structure and the first frame structure, and generating the second frame structure according to the offset.

6 . The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the offset between a starting point of a downlink sub-frame, an uplink sub-frame, and a special sub-frame as a whole in the second sub-frame configuration and a starting point of the first sub-frame configuration is zero.

7 . The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the offset between a starting point of a downlink sub-frame, an uplink sub-frame, and a special sub-frame as a whole in the second sub-frame configuration and a starting point of the first sub-frame configuration is not zero.

8 . The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein starting points of a downlink sub-frame and an uplink sub-frame in the second sub-frame configuration have different offsets with respect to starting points of a downlink sub-frame and an uplink sub-frame in the first sub-frame configuration.

9 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the length of the sub-frame in the second sub-frame configuration equals the length of the sub-frame in the first sub-frame configuration multiplied by a factor, and the factor is two, five, or a power of two.

10 . A data-transmission method, comprising:

in a wireless communication network, receiving an induction of a second sub-frame configuration by a user equipment (UE), wherein a length of each sub-frame in the second sub-frame configuration is several times a length of a sub-frame in a first sub-frame configuration;

utilizing the second sub-frame configuration to generate second frame structures which are different from a sub-frame in the first sub-frame configuration; and

transmitting and receiving a signal with a base station by using the second frame structures.

11 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein an uplink and a downlink between the UE and the base station use different second frame structures.

12 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein utilizing the second sub-frame configuration to generate the second frame structures further comprises:

utilizing an uplink parameter to generate an uplink sub-frame, utilizing a downlink parameter to generate a downlink sub-frame, and utilizing the uplink parameter and the downlink parameter to generate a special sub-frame.

13 . The method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the special sub-frame comprises at least two of a downlink symbol, an uplink symbol, and a guard period.

14 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the second sub-frame configuration comprises at least one of a subcarrier spacing, a symbol length, a cyclic prefix length, a sampling rate, a number of FFT points, and an offset.

15 . The method as claimed in claim 14 , further comprising:

determining an offset between starting positions of the second sub-frame configuration and the first sub-frame configuration, and generating the second frame structure according to the offset.

16 . The method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein an offset between a starting point of a downlink sub-frame, an uplink sub-frame, and a special sub-frame as a whole in the second sub-frame configuration and a starting point of the first sub-frame configuration is zero.

17 . The method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein an offset between a starting point of a downlink sub-frame, an uplink sub-frame, and a special sub-frame as a whole in the second sub-frame configuration and a starting point of the first sub-frame configuration is the second offset which is not zero.

18 . The method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein starting points of a downlink sub-frame and an uplink sub-frame in the second sub-frame configuration have different offsets with respect to starting points of a downlink sub-frame and an uplink sub-frame in the first sub-frame configuration.

19 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the length of the sub-frame in the second sub-frame configuration equals the length of the sub-frame in the first sub-frame configuration multiplied by a factor, and the factor is two, five, or a power of two.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 11, 2018
From: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
To: HFI INNOVATION INC.
Reel/Frame 046840/0777 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 18, 2017
From: SUN, FEIFEI; ZHANG, LEI; WU, MIN; CHEN, PO-YING
To: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Reel/Frame 043332/0024 →