Patent ID: 9374151
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. An eNodeB comprising; a transceiver and processing circuitry, the processing circuitry to configure the processing circuitry to: repeat Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) data three times within one sub-frame; transmit the repeated PBCH data to a coverage limited Machine Type Communication (MTC) User Equipment (UE) in a first transmission in one of sub-frame one, sub-frame two, sub-frame three, sub-frame four, sub-frame six, sub-frame seven, sub-frame eight, or sub-frame nine and the PBCH data including Master Information Block (MIB) data transmitted a first time in symbols two through five of the sub-frame, and the MIB data transmitted second and third times in symbols six through thirteen of the sub-frame, repeat transmission of the PBCH data to the coverage limited MTC UE multiple times including at least the first transmission at a first time and a second transmission at a second time after the first time, the time between the first time and the second time is less during a time of day that has a lower average UE traffic and the time between the first time and the second time is greater during a time of day that has a higher average UE traffic.