US 11,750,339 B2
Methods and apparatus for wireless communications over subsets of contiguous subcarriers
Qian Cheng, Naperville, IL (US); Weimin Xiao, Hoffman Estates, IL (US); Philippe Sartori, Plainfield, IL (US); and Jialing Liu, Palatine, IL (US)
Assigned to Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US)
Filed by Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/101,974.
Application 17/101,974 is a continuation of application No. 16/183,527, filed on Nov. 7, 2018, granted, now 10,848,278.
Application 16/183,527 is a continuation of application No. 15/156,944, filed on May 17, 2016, granted, now 10,142,068, issued on Nov. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/165,688, filed on May 22, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0075563 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 25/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/001 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0037 (2013.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04L 25/00 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
6. A method, comprising:
transmitting, by a network controller to a first user equipment (UE), a message configuring a first subset of contiguous subcarriers of a carrier, the first subset of contiguous subcarriers of the carrier supporting procedures of synchronization with the carrier and initial access to the carrier with the first UE; and
after the initial access to the carrier, transmitting a downlink transmission to the UE or receiving, by the network controller in the carrier, an uplink transmission from the UE.