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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2014
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Suryanarayanan Ramamurthy, Olathe, KS (US);
Deveshkumar N. Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and system for managing time segments per subframe used for downlink control channel communication by adjacent base stations that each provide carrier-aggregation service on first and second component carriers. The base stations may work with each other to differentially structure the component carriers, such that the base stations use different time segments than each other for downlink control channel communication on the first component carrier but the same time segments as each other for downlink control channel communication on the second component carrier. Further, based on this differential structuring, the base stations may then schedule transmission of one type of data on the first component carrier and another type of data on the second component carrier.