Patent ID: 9036523
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for reducing power consumption in downlink transmissions of one or more frames in a wireless communication system, each frame comprising a plurality of subframes and each subframe divided into at least a first region and a second region in a time domain, the method comprising: selecting a first group of subframes from the plurality of subframes, each of the first group of subframes having at least a control signal symbol in the first region; for each subframe not selected in the first group, disabling transmission of any control signal symbol in the first region; selecting a second group of subframes from the plurality of subframes, each of the second group of subframes having one or more control signal symbols in the second region; and for each subframe not selected in the second group, disabling transmission of any symbol in the second region unless the subframe carries a particular content signal.