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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2013
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Haochuan Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Rui Fan, Beijing, CN;
Shaohua Li, Beijing, CN;
Qianxi Lu, Beijing, CN;
Xinghua Song, Beijing, CN;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method used in a UE for transmitting a periodic signal to a first base station and an associated UE. The UE has been in communications with a first base station. The method includes: obtaining from the second base station a subframe configuration, which indicates a first set of subframes assigned to communications between the UE and the first base station and a second set of subframes assigned to communications between the UE and the second base station; and if a given uplink subframe, in which the periodic signal is to be transmitted to the first base station, is not in the first set of subframes, transmitting the periodic signal in a first available uplink subframe in the first set of subframes following the given uplink subframe. The present disclosure also relates to a method used in a first base station for transmitting a periodic signal/its periodic system information to a UE and an associated first base station; and a method used in a second base station for forwarding to a UE and an associated second base station.