Half-duplex terminal operation in a full-duplex network
US8094628B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 23, 2007 |
| Grant date | Jan 10, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 28, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W72/21
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for communication includes deploying a half-duplex terminal in a wireless full-duplex communication network configured to permit simultaneous transmission of downlink paging messages and uplink access messages between a base station and full-duplex mobile terminals in the network. The half-duplex terminal is assigned paging channel slots in a cyclical sequence of the paging channel slots, so that the base station transmits the downlink paging messages to the half-duplex terminal only during the assigned paging channel slots. The half-duplex terminal is controlled so that the half-duplex terminal transmits the uplink access messages only during an interval bounded by the assigned paging channel slots occurring in successive cycles in the sequence.
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