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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Nec Laboratories Europe Gmbh, Heidelberg, DE;
Konstantinos Samdanis, Munich, DE;
Rudraksh Shrivastava, Stuttgart, DE;
Xavier Costa-Perez, Heidelberg, DE;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication apparatus for facilitating setting up of a network slice for service provision in a time division duplex system includes a receiver configured to receive a request for a network slice for at least one service. A processor is configured to specify, for the requested network slice, at least one of an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration and a reconfiguration timescale. A transmitter is configured to notify at least one of a communication entity of a radio access network and a communication entity of a core network of the UL/DL configuration.