Patent ID: 9596071
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communication in a wireless communication network using a frequency division duplexing (FDD) configuration, wherein the FDD configuration provides a time sequence of consecutive subframes for both uplink and downlink communications in which the uplink and downlink communications occur in different frequency ranges, the method comprising: identifying, by a transmitter, data to be transmitted to a receiver using transmission time interval (TTI) bundling; obtaining, by the transmitter, a bundle size, N, to use for the TTI bundling, wherein N>1; obtaining, by the transmitter, a number of intervening subframes, I, between successive transmissions of the data to the receiver, wherein I≧1; selecting, by the transmitter, a sequence of N subframes for N transmissions of the data to the receiver, wherein successive subframes in the sequence are separated by I subframes; and transmitting, by the transmitter, the data in at least a first subframe of the sequence of N subframes, wherein transmitting, by the transmitter, the data in at least a first subframe of the sequence of N subframes comprises: