Patent ID: 8937891
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for wireless communications comprising: operating a base station under time division duplexing to communicate with one or more mobile devices using a frame structure; receiving, from a core network, a request to initiate a change to a downlink-uplink ratio; adjusting the downlink-uplink ratio to change an allocation between uplink and downlink data capacities in the frame structure; determining a mute interval based on the adjusted downlink-uplink ratio, the mute interval comprising one or more areas of the frame structure, the mute interval indicating that transmissions during the mute interval should cease; generating mute information based on the mute interval to identify the one or more areas of the frame structure effected by the allocation change; transmitting the mute information to the one or more mobile devices; and transmitting, upon sensing that transmissions in the mute interval have ceased, a response message to the core network.