Patent ID: 8477697

Claim:
A method of operating a base station in a wireless network, comprising: allocating radio resources for a user equipment in frames of a plurality of types including first and second frame types, wherein a frame of each frame type includes a preamble distinguishing the frame from frames of other frame types; forming an interlaced frame by interlacing the frames of the plurality of frame types so that in the interlaced frame, a downlink portion of a frame of the first frame type does not overlap with an uplink portion of a frame of the second frame type, and an uplink portion of the frame of the first frame type does not overlap with a downlink portion of the frame of the second frame type; and communicating with the user equipment according to the interlaced frame, wherein the interlaced frame is such that a frame of the first frame type partially overlaps with a first frame of the second frame type and partially overlaps with a second frame of the second frame type, the first and second frames of the second frame type being consecutive.