Sony Group Corporation
OFDM BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION USING FLEXIBLE RESOURCES

Abstract:

A method of transmitting data by a communications device to a wireless communications network comprising determining, by the communications device, from granted uplink communications resources, OFDM symbols of one or more time slots which are designated for transmitting uplink data, and transmitting the uplink data in the OFDM symbols determined as designated for uplink transmission. The determining the OFDM symbols of the one or more time slots which are designated for transmitting uplink data includes identifying one or more F-symbols of the one or more time slots designated for transmitting the uplink data based on information received with an indication of the communications resources of the uplink.