Patent ID: 9572154
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A user equipment (UE) comprising: a processor; memory in electronic communication with the processor, wherein instructions stored in the memory are executable to: determine that a subframe is a first subframe which is configured as a downlink subframe and an uplink subframe in different reference uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configurations; detect a physical downlink control channel indicating whether the subframe is a downlink subframe; set the subframe as a downlink subframe if the physical downlink control channel indicates that the subframe is a downlink subframe; monitor, in the subframe, a physical downlink control channel carrying a downlink assignment if the physical downlink control channel indicates that the subframe is a downlink subframe; and not monitor, in the subframe, the physical downlink control channel carrying the downlink assignment if the physical downlink control channel does not indicate that the subframe is a downlink subframe.