Patent ID: 9584216
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a user equipment over an air interface in one or more fixed downlink subframes from a node, a subframe allocation for a time division duplex frame comprising at least one fixed subframe and a plurality of flexible subframes, the subframe allocation identifying a plurality of flexible subframes and indicating an assignment for each of the plurality of flexible subframes as an uplink subframe or a downlink subframe, the assignment based on an indication received at the node indicating whether the user equipment supports dynamic allocation of subframes; and forming, by the user equipment, a subframe pattern that includes at least one fixed uplink subframe, at least one fixed downlink subframe, and a plurality of flexible subframes, each flexible subframe allocated as an uplink subframe or a downlink subframe based on the received subframe allocation.