Patent ID: 8605676

Claim:
A method for configuring inter-cell time division duplex modes based on a time division duplex system, comprising: one or more physical frame pairs, which are configured to be transmitted in overlapped transmission periods in the time domain and have different transmitting modes, existing in physical frames of two adjacent cells; for each physical frame pair, setting only one physical frames of the physical frame pair not to transmit signals; in all the physical frame pairs, setting all uplink physical frames at a same location not to transmit signals, or setting all downlink physical frames at a same location not to transmit signals; wherein in the situation of setting an uplink physical frame not to transmit signals in an uplink transmission block, the same settings are performed to the uplink physical frames at the same location in other uplink transmission blocks; in the situation of setting a downlink physical frame not to transmit signals in a downlink transmission block, the same settings are performed to the downlink physical frames at the same location in other downlink transmission blocks.