Patent ID: 9642162
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A user equipment comprising a transmitter and a receiver for transmitting and receiving data respectively and a processing circuit coupled to the transmitter and the receiver and is configured for: receiving from the receiver a first setting for a first radio frame in a first component carrier, wherein the first setting comprises a configuration for a subframe of the first radio frame, wherein the first radio frame comprises a non-configured subframe, wherein the non-configured subframe is deactivated based on an uplink traffic or queued packets in a downlink buffer; configuring the subframe of the first radio frame in response to receiving the first setting for the first radio frame, wherein the configured subframe of the first radio frame comprises at least one anchoring subframe and at least one non-anchor subframe, wherein the at least one anchoring subframe is configured as repeating the configuration of uplink or downlink, and the configuration of the at least one non-anchor subframe is one time only; activating the configured subframe of the first radio frame; activating the non-configured subframe as an active uplink subframe or an active downlink subframe based on the uplink traffic or the queued packets in the downlink buffer; and transmitting or receiving via the transmitter or receiver user data using the configured subframe and the non-configured subframe of the first radio frame.