Patent ID: 8279839

Claim:
A transmission method in a wireless telecommunication system including a base station to communicate with terminals over bidirectional communication channels, each channel supporting frames being divided into downlink sub frames and uplink sub frames, each downlink sub frame including a plurality of nominal symbols to be transmitted to at least two terminals, wherein a time delay of each terminal connected thereto is determined, said time delay being such that any terminal after having received all the symbols included in a downlink sub frame followed by an uplink sub frame may transmit other symbols over said uplink sub frame with said time delay so that the other symbols transmitted are received by said base station at a time separated from an end of a transmission by the base station of the downlink sub frame by a predefined guard period that is constant regardless of distance of each terminal to the base station, and wherein a transfer of one or more supplementary symbols between the base station and at least one terminal that receives or transmits said one or more supplementary symbols during the guard period is enabled, the method comprising: obtaining multiplexing resources of the wireless telecommunication system for allocation of symbols to be transferred to the at least two terminals, the obtained multiplexing resources including the one or more supplementary symbols and the plurality of nominal symbols; assigning use of the nominal symbols, for a first subset of the multiplexing resources, to a first terminal, and assigning use of the nominal symbols for a second subset of the multiplexing resources, different from the first subset of multiplexing resources, to a second terminal; assigning to a first supplementary symbol for transfer during the guard period for only part of the first subset of the multiplexing resources of the first supplementary symbol corresponding to the first terminal, at least one first pilot sequence element, and assigning to the first supplementary symbol for only part of the second subset of the multiplexing resources of the first supplementary symbol corresponding to the second terminal, at least one second pilot sequence element, and not assigning remaining portions of the first and second subsets of the multiplexing resources; and transferring, during the guard period, to the first and second terminals, at least the first supplementary symbol, when the time delay of the first and second terminals is such that the first supplementary symbol is transferable during the guard period.