Patent ID: 9686788
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising: determining, by the UE, a region of uplink transmissions in an uplink pilot timeslot (UpPTS) associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) network, wherein the UpPTS comprises three or more symbols allocated for uplink transmissions; aligning uplink transmissions between the first RAT network and a second RAT network so that the first RAT network coexists with the second RAT network, wherein a number of the three or more UpPTS symbols is based on a configuration of the second RAT, wherein a portion of the symbols for uplink transmissions overlaps with at least a guard period (GP) and an UpPTS associated with the second RAT network, and wherein a number of symbols allocated for a GP and the UpPTS associated with the first RAT network is determined by: transmitting in the UpPTS.