Patent ID: 8743799
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: prior to confirmation that a network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of a user equipment, operating a user equipment with the network access node in accordance with a first rate matching mode; and only after confirmation to the user equipment that the network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of the user equipment, changing the rate matching mode to a second rate matching mode, where the confirmation is achieved by one of explicitly based on signaling, or implicitly based on signaling and by application of a rule, or implicitly based on application of a rule, and where the confirmation is achieved implicitly based on execution of a radio resource control connection reconfiguration signaling procedure, and where the rule comprises the network access node initiating rate matching around the reference symbols for the user equipment only after it has received a radio resource control connection reconfiguration complete message from the user equipment.