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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
May. 17, 2019
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Gowrisankar Somichetty, Bangalore, IN;
Kapil Bhattad, Bangalore, IN;
Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiao Feng Wang, San Diego, CA (US);
Manikandan Chandrasekar, Bangalore, IN;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
There is a need to support TDD frame structure for narrowband communications. The present disclosure provides a solution by supporting one or more TDD frame structure(s) for narrowband communications. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may determine to receive a narrowband physical downlink channel in a first subframe in a TDD frame structure of a plurality of TDD frame structures for narrowband communications. The TDD frame structures may include one or more special subframes, and the first subframe may be a downlink subframe. The apparatus may receive the narrowband physical downlink channel in a special subframe of the narrowband TDD frame structure, if the number of downlink OFDM symbols in the special subframe is greater than a predetermined threshold.