METHODS, DEVICES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR INTERFERENCE REDUCTION IN TDD SYSTEMS ALLOWING ALLOCATION OF FLEXIBLE SUBFRAMES FOR UPLINK OR DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION

摘要

Methods, devices and computer program products in relation to interference reduction are presented, in particular for devices comprising a transceiver module configured for TDD operation in a network environment wherein a partition of subframes of channels are configurable to be flexibly assigned for downlink or uplink transmission while other subframes are fixedly configured for either uplink or downlink transmission. Aspects of such devices encompasses a controller module configured to determine those subframes that are flexibly assigned and configured for downlink transmission, identify, among those determined subframes, a subframe carrying a control channel, and restrict physical resources for the control channel in the identified subframe. The invention also addresses corresponding receiving devices and terminals as well as associated methods.