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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 12, 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
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may determine a narrowband TDD frame structure of a group of narrowband TDD frame structures for narrowband communications. The apparatus may transmit a series of repetitions of a narrowband physical downlink channel using the narrowband TDD frame structure. In one aspect, a first portion of repetitions from the series of repetitions may be transmitted in one or more first sets of downlink subframes using a first scrambling sequence. In one aspect, a second portion of repetitions from the series of repetitions may be transmitted in one or more second sets of downlink subframes using a second scrambling sequence.