SYSTEM, METHOD AND BASE STATION FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A PLURALITY OF SUBFRAMES
First Claim
1. A method of operating a base station in a telecommunications system comprising the base station and a plurality of terminal devices arranged to communicate with the base station over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel for conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel for conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices, wherein the control-plane data conveys information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective ones of the terminal devices, and wherein the radio interface is based on a radio frame structure comprising a plurality of subframes, wherein each subframe comprises a control region for supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region for supporting the downlink shared channel, and wherein the method comprises transmitting in the control region of a first radio subframe an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe, and subsequently transmitting user-plane data on the physical resource allocation for the first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of the second radio subframe.
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Abstract
A method operating a telecommunications system including a base station and plural terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices. The control-plane data can convey information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective of the terminal devices. The radio interface uses a radio frame structure including plural subframes. Each subframe includes a control region supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region supporting the downlink shared channel. The method uses the control region of a first radio subframe to convey an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe subsequent to the first radio subframe.
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28 Claims
- 1. A method of operating a base station in a telecommunications system comprising the base station and a plurality of terminal devices arranged to communicate with the base station over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel for conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel for conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices, wherein the control-plane data conveys information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective ones of the terminal devices, and wherein the radio interface is based on a radio frame structure comprising a plurality of subframes, wherein each subframe comprises a control region for supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region for supporting the downlink shared channel, and wherein the method comprises transmitting in the control region of a first radio subframe an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe, and subsequently transmitting user-plane data on the physical resource allocation for the first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of the second radio subframe.
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- 14. A base station for use in a telecommunications system comprising the base station and a plurality of terminal devices arranged to communicate with the base station over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel for conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel for conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices, wherein the control-plane data conveys information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective ones of the terminal devices, and wherein the radio interface is based on a radio frame structure comprising a plurality of subframes, wherein each subframe comprises a control region for supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region for supporting the downlink shared channel, and wherein the base station is configured to transmit in the control region of a first radio subframe an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe and to subsequently transmit user-plane data on the physical resource allocation for the first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of the second radio subframe.
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27. A method of operating a telecommunications system comprising a base station and a plurality of terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel for conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel for conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices, wherein the control-plane data is arranged to convey information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective ones of the terminal devices, and wherein the radio interface is based on a radio frame structure comprising a plurality of subframes, wherein each subframe comprises a control region for supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region for supporting the downlink shared channel, and wherein the method comprises using the control region of a first radio subframe to convey an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe, the second radio frame being subsequent to the first radio subframe.
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28. A telecommunications system comprising a base station and a plurality of terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel for conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel for conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices, wherein the control-plane data is arranged to convey information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective ones of the terminal devices, and wherein the radio interface is based on a radio frame structure comprising a plurality of subframes, wherein each subframe comprises a control region for supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region for supporting the downlink shared channel, and wherein the telecommunications system is configured such that the control region of a first radio subframe is used to convey an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe, the second radio frame being subsequent to the first radio subframe.
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