Evolved Node B device configured to communicate using robust, puncture-based multiplexing

摘要

Disclosed are devices for an Evolved Node B (eNB). An apparatus for an eNB includes control circuits configured to puncture at least a portion of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols with a shortened transmission time interval (TTI) symbol and to control a communication device of the eNB to control the OFDM symbols and transmit the shortened TTI symbol, mapping communication data to resource elements of the OFDM symbols and puncturing the at least a portion of the OFDM symbols such that a ratio of a number of punctured systematic bits to a number of punctured parity bits is approximately equal to or less than a ratio of a number of systematic bits in the communication data to a number of parity bits in the communication data.