Patent ID: 8848742

Claim:
A method for wireless communications, comprising: utilizing a cyclic prefix of a first length for a control portion in a subframe; utilizing a cyclic prefix of a second length different than the first length for a data portion in the subframe; and adjusting a transmission gap between the control portion and the data portion within the subframe, wherein the transmission gap corresponds to a gap between transmission of control symbols in the control portion and transmission of data symbols in the data portion in the subframe, and wherein the transmission gap is present when utilizing the cyclic prefixes of the first and second lengths for the control and data portions, respectively, and is absent when utilizing cyclic prefixes of same length for the control and data portions; wherein the subframe comprises a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network subframe; and wherein the transmission gap comprises at least one of a prefix of the data portion or a postfix of the data portion.