Patent ID: 9680618
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: applying, during uplink transmission from a terminal device, at least one of time division multiplexing and frequency division multiplexing between an uplink control channel and an uplink data channel within the terminal device, wherein an uplink system bandwidth allocated for the uplink transmission from the terminal device comprises a plurality of frequency chunks; applying clustered sub-carrier mapping for the uplink control channel, wherein clustered subcarriers form at least part of a primary uplink frequency chunk among the plurality of frequency chunks, the primary uplink frequency chunk is used to transmit information on the uplink control channel, and the primary uplink frequency chunk and one or more other uplink frequency chunks among the plurality of frequency chunks is used to transmit information on the uplink data channel; and transmitting, from the terminal device, information on the uplink control channel and information on the uplink data channel during a same sub-frame.