Allocating resources and transmitting data in mobile telecommunication systems comprising machine type communication applications

摘要

A method of communicating data in a wireless telecommunications system between plural base stations and plural terminal devices using plural Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, sub-carriers spanning a first frequency bandwidth. The method includes: communicating data between a first base station and a first terminal device using a first OFDM sub-carrier group distributed across the first frequency bandwidth, communicating data between a second base station, geographically separated from the first base station, and a second terminal device using a second OFDM sub-carrier group distributed across a second frequency bandwidth, the second frequency bandwidth being smaller than and within the first frequency bandwidth; and communicating control-plane data between the first base station and the first terminal device using a combination of the first and second groups of the OFDM sub-carriers. Guard regions may be provided in the frequency domain between frequencies of transmissions associated with the first and second base stations.

主权项

1. A method of operating a base station for communicating data between the base station and a plurality of terminal devices in a wireless telecommunications system using a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, sub-carriers spanning a first frequency bandwidth, the method comprising:
communicating network user traffic using a first group of the OFDM sub-carriers distributed across the first frequency bandwidth; communicating no network user traffic using a second group of the OFDM sub-carriers distributed across a second frequency bandwidth, wherein the second frequency bandwidth is smaller than and within the first frequency bandwidth; and communicating control signaling traffic with the plurality of terminal devices using a combination of the first and second groups of the OFDM sub-carriers.