METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A PLURALITY OF SUBFRAMES

摘要

A method of operating a telecommunications system comprising a base station and a plurality of terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel for conveying user plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel for conveying control plane data from the base station to the terminal devices wherein the control plane data is arranged to convey information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective ones of the terminal devices and wherein the radio interface is based on a radio frame structure comprising a plurality of subframes wherein each subframe comprises a control region for supporting the downlink control channel and a user plane region for supporting the downlink shared channel and wherein the method comprises using the control region of a first radio subframe to convey an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user plane region of a second radio subframe the second radio frame being subsequent to the first radio subframe.