Patent ID: 9252938
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A telecommunications system comprising: a plurality of base stations; and a plurality of terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface having a radio frame structure comprising radio subframes, wherein each radio subframe comprises a plurality of symbols, and at least one symbol in each radio subframe is used to support a physical shared channel and at least one symbol in each radio subframe is used to support a physical control channel associated with the physical shared channel, and wherein a symbol at the beginning or end of each radio subframe is used for a communication link between a base station and a terminal device operating in a full-duplex mode to support the physical shared channel and is used for a communication link between a base station and a terminal device operating in a half-duplex mode to support a different additional physical channel.