Patent ID: 9642121
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for communication in a wireless telecommunication network, the method comprising: assigning, by a network element, a first scheduling grant to a first user equipment (UE) and a second scheduling grant to a second UE, the first UE being closer to the network element than the second UE; and transmitting the first scheduling grant and the second scheduling grant to the first UE and the second UE, respectively, wherein the first UE only performs transmissions using the first scheduling grant during flexible subframes and wherein the second UE only performs transmissions using the second scheduling grant during static subframes, the static subframes having a different subframe pattern than the flexible subframes, wherein the flexible subframes are capable of dynamically switching between subframes used by the first UE for uplink traffic and downlink traffic, while the static subframes are restricted subframes used by the second UE for only uplink traffic or downlink traffic.