Patent ID: 9614650
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for operating a base station, the method comprising: creating a plurality of subzones in a time-frequency resource, wherein the time-frequency resource spans a plurality of sub-carriers in a frequency dimension and a plurality of symbol durations in a time dimension, wherein said creating includes grouping two or more of the plurality of subzones in a pre-defined sector-specific fashion, to form a first subzone group for a first sector, wherein the first subzone group includes a first and second of the plurality of subzones, wherein the first subzone and the second subzone occupy different subsets of the plurality of symbol durations, wherein the first subzone is not grouped with the second subzone in a second sector; receiving uplink transmissions from a mobile device in the first sector, wherein said receiving uses at least a portion of each of the subzones of the first subzone group.