Patent ID: 8305943

Claim:
A method that facilitates half-duplex communication in a frequency division duplex (FDD) wireless communication system, comprising: determining a half-duplex interlace to use for communication from among a plurality of half-duplex interlaces, each half-duplex interlace in the plurality of half-duplex interlaces comprising temporally non-overlapping frames for a forward link and a reverse link; and communicating, over a wireless interface, frames of the half-duplex interlace determined for use, wherein the forward link is associated with a first frequency channel comprising a plurality of frequency subbands, and the reverse link is associated with a second frequency channel comprising a plurality of frequency subbands, and wherein the communicating frames of the half-duplex interlace determined for use comprises: sending a first control segment that spans one of the plurality of frequency subbands on the forward link; and receiving a second control segment that spans one of the plurality of frequency subbands on the reverse link.