WO2012121574A3

5G,4G

Title

FLEXIBLE TIME DIVISION DUPLEX METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Application Number:

WO2012KR01787

Publication Date:

26-10-2012

Family ID:

Application Date:

12-03-2012

Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

10-03-2011

Declaring Company:

Abstract  Abstract

A flexible Time Division Duplex (TDD) method and apparatus is provided for improving efficiency of communication system. A communication method of a base station supporting TDD includes transmitting to a terminal first information including at least one of a flag indicating whether flexible subframes are used and an indicator indicating a candidate flexible subframe set to an uplink subframe; transmitting to the terminal second information including a switch flag indicating whether to use the candidate flexible subframe as a downlink subframe; and transmitting to the terminal when the candidate flexible subframe is indicated to be used as the downlink subframe the candidate flexible subframe as the downlink subframe.

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