Patent ID: 9749771
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for providing machine-type-communication (MTC) in a wireless network, comprising: allocating, at a base station, resources within a narrow bandwidth within a wide system bandwidth for MTC communications; generating a reduced master information block (MIB) for MTC, the reduced MIB including a subset of control information values in a MIB of the wireless network, the subset of control information values excluding one or more control information values associated with the MIB of the wireless network; prioritizing communication of an MTC control channel over at least one legacy channel such that at least one legacy channel is punctured with the MTC control channel for MTC; and transmitting the reduced MIB over resources allocated for MTC in the narrow bandwidth in the MTC control channel that punctures the at least one legacy channel in the wide system bandwidth, wherein the transmission uses UE-specific demodulation reference signal-based demodulation, and wherein the at least one legacy channel is a legacy control channel that overlaps symbols with the at least one MTC control channel in the wide system bandwidth.