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BAND OCCUPANCY TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSMISSIONS IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM

  • US 20160135172A1
  • Filed: 11/05/2015
  • Published: 05/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for uplink transmission by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

  • receiving a first assignment for one or more beacon signals, the first assignment including a first interlace assignment in a contention-based spectrum;

    determining that a size of an uplink grant for a payload of an uplink transmission is less than a threshold; and

    transmitting the one or more beacon signals according to the first assignment in response to determining that the size of the uplink grant for the payload of the uplink transmission is less than the threshold, wherein the one or more beacon signals increase bandwidth occupancy by the UE over the contention-based spectrum.

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