| 摘要 |
According to one aspect, there is provided a method of operating a network node (10) in a communication network (2) to provide timing information for a mobile device (12), the network (2) defining an extended period that is longer than a predefined period in the network (2), the predefined period in the network (2) corresponding to the time taken to transmit a predefined plurality of frames, the method comprising broadcasting (101) a plurality of information blocks, IBs, to the mobile device (12), each IB indicating a current frame number in the predefined plurality of frames and a time reference bit, the time reference bit indicating whether the current predefined period is a particular one of a number of predefined periods in the extended period. |
