APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A FLEXIBLE GUARD INTERVAL FOR BLOCK SINGLE CARRIER TRANSMISSION

摘要

An eNodeB (eNB), user equipment (UE) and method of providing a dynamically determined guard interval (GI) sequence are generally described. Uplink and downlink TDD subframes may each contain a block having a symbol and a GI sequence. The GI sequences may differ or be the same between the different subframes and the GI sequences may depend on an estimation of channel delay spread, a cell identifier (ID) of a cell to which the UE is configured to communicate, and a UE ID. The uplink or downlink subframe may comprise a guard time. A last block of the downlink subframe or first block of the uplink subframe may contain the GI sequence and the guard time and a first block of the uplink subframe or last block of the downlink subframe respectively may contain an additional GI sequence to maintain cyclicity.