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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2006
Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for asymmetric frequency division duplexing operation
Applicants:
Alireza Afrashteh, Great Falls, VA (US);
Masoud Olfat, Clarksville, MD (US);
Douglas A. Hyslop, Fairfax, VA (US);
Rajesh M. Gangadhar, Ashburn, VA (US);
Inventors:
Alireza Afrashteh, Great Falls, VA (US);
Masoud Olfat, Clarksville, MD (US);
Douglas A. Hyslop, Fairfax, VA (US);
Rajesh M. Gangadhar, Ashburn, VA (US);
Assignee:
Nextel Communications, Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for performing asymmetric frequency division duplexing (FDD) are provided. The method includes allocating a first bandwidth for an uplink portion of an FDD data transmission; and allocating a second bandwidth for a downlink portion of the FDD data transmission; wherein the first bandwidth and the second bandwidth have different sizes.