Based at least in part on the WCD initiating the reduced COT after the COT, the WCD may avoid sensing operations and/or may improve latency based at least in part on avoiding the sensing operations. Based at least in part on the duration of the reduced COT being based at least in part on the duration of the COT, the network may support communications that use a relatively long COT and communications that use a relatively short COT with proportional times for the reduced COT.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example 500 of uplink transmissions in an unlicensed band, in accordance with various aspects of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 5, a first WCD (e.g., base station 110 or UE 120, among other examples) may communicate with a second WCD (e.g., base station 110 or UE 120, among other examples). In some aspects, the first WCD and the second WCD may be part of a wireless network (e.g., wireless network 100). In some aspects, the first WCD and the second WCD may communicate via an unlicensed band that does not require channel sensing (e.g., no-LBT channel access) before beginning a transmission. In some aspects, the wireless network may include an unlicensed band in a sub 7 GHz band and/or one or more millimeter wave bands.
