Patent ID: 8811373

Claim:
A method that facilitates communication associated with a mobile device, comprising: erasing a portion of a first subset of data associated with a physical downlink shared channel that is contained in a guard time region to obtain a second subset of data having unoccupied symbols within the guard time region; and transmitting the second subset of data, comprising a portion of system parameters including a guard time parameter, to a plurality of mobile devices, including the mobile device, wherein the guard time parameter is based at least in part on the guard time region and facilitates rate matching of data by the mobile device, and wherein the second subset of data further comprises a downlink subframe parameter that identifies a configuration of a radio frame sequence to facilitate configuring the mobile device to operate in accordance with the radio frame sequence, the downlink subframe parameter specifies that a subframe immediately following a subframe containing a dynamic broadcast channel is designated as a downlink subframe.