Patent ID: 9065600
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: configuring by at least one network element a first bandwidth for a primary component carrier and a second bandwidth for a secondary component carrier, the first and second bandwidths being at least partially overlapped and the second bandwidth being larger than the first bandwidth; and selecting between at least one of a first signaling channel within the first bandwidth and a second signaling channel within the second bandwidth for scheduling data resources on the secondary component carrier; wherein a first set of physical resource blocks for the primary component carrier is a subset of a second set of physical resource blocks for the secondary component carrier that are separated by an offset proportional to a difference in carrier center frequency, and proportional at least to one of the first bandwidth or the second bandwidth, to permit an allocation of at least one of a set of localized and distributed physical resource blocks by a single allocation entity; and wherein indexing is different for physical resource blocks for the primary component carrier and for the secondary component carrier in an overlapping region of the first and second bandwidths.