Method and apparatus for reducing round trip latency and overhead within a communication system

摘要

During operation radio frames are divided into a plurality of subframes. Data is transmitted over the radio frames within a plurality of subframes, and having a subframe type selected from a plurality of subframe types. Each subframe type having a same time duration and being distinguished by having a differing number of OFDM symbols or a differing number of single carrier FDMA symbols.