Patent ID: 8077694

Claim:
A method, in a wireless communication system providing at least one time division duplexing communication channel, for scheduling at least one of transmission and reception of wireless data by at least one wireless communication device, the method comprising: determining a distance between at least one wireless communication device and a base station in a wireless communication cell; segmenting at least one of a downlink subframe and an uplink subframe of a time division duplexing frame into a plurality of segments; and scheduling the at least one wireless communication device into at least one of the plurality of segments of the downlink subframe and the uplink subframe based on the distance determined between the at least one wireless communication device and the base station and wherein the at least one wireless communication device being scheduled into at least one middle segment of the plurality of segments of the downlink subframe and the uplink subframe if the distance determined between the base station and the at least one wireless communication device is greater than a given distance threshold.