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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
Harri J. Pekonen, Raisio, FI;
Heidi Himmanen, Turku, FI;
Jani Väre, Kaarina, FI;
Jussi Vesma, Turku, FI;
Pekka Talmola, Turku, FI;
Harri J. Pekonen, Raisio, FI;
Heidi Himmanen, Turku, FI;
Jani Väre, Kaarina, FI;
Jussi Vesma, Turku, FI;
Pekka Talmola, Turku, FI;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A system and method is provided for ensuring that time for tuning to another RF channel between two TF frames in TF slicing exists while reception with a single hopping-tuner is enabled, and reception for terminals can be guaranteed when transmitting and receiving common services. An additional time for tuning is introduced for TF-sliced services, where the time for tuning can be inserted either before of after the P& Psymbols, and the symbols allocated for the tuning time can also be used for transmission of low-bit rate services. Alternatively, additional padding bits and a guard period can be added in the event that slots or slot fragments exceed a cyclic transfer border upon time shifting. Alternatively still, the tuning time is represented by a complete TF frame, where the complete TF frame carries services other than those in the first TF frame, so that a service is transmitted in every second TF frame and a receiver can perform tuning during the TF frames which do not carry the service.