METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED COVERAGE TRANSMISSION FOR LTE ADVANCED

摘要

A system and method for communicating with a coverage enhanced user equipment (UE) is provided. A base station transmits system information (SI) to the UE in a MTC framework. The MTC framework comprising intermittent transmission periods of a number of MTC SI transmission blocks. The MTC SI transmission block includes a MTC Master Information Block (MIB) and a number of MTC System Information Blocks (SIBs). Two consecutive transmissions of the MTC SI are separated by N number of frames, and N is an integer number.