Abstract:
A base station (101) will instruct relay stations (102) to periodically skip transmissions of their control information when control messaging by all relay stations exceeds a predetermined threshold (e.g., 50% of radio resource capacity). The base station determines the relay stations to skip by periodically ranking the relay stations and skipping control messages for relay stations having a lowest rank.
Abstract:
At least one operating condition is determined for a first mobile subscriber station (104) that is operating in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) network. The first mobile subscriber station (104) is handed off from a base station (102) to a relay station (110). Based upon the at least one operating condition, at least one sub-channel is subsequently assigned from a plurality of sub-channels of a frequency band to the first mobile subscriber station (104) in order to provide an assigned sub-channel resource to the first mobile subscriber station (104). The assigned sub-channel resource can potentially be any of the plurality of sub-channels of the frequency band.
Abstract:
A base station (101) will instruct relay stations (102) to periodically skip transmissions of their control information when control messaging by all relay stations exceeds a predetermined threshold (e.g., 50% of radio resource capacity). The base station determines the relay stations to skip by periodically ranking the relay stations and skipping control messages for relay stations having a lowest rank.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for relaying data within a multi-hop communication system (200) is provided herein. During operation, all preamble (301, 305) and broadcast (303, 307) information for relaying nodes (201) and for the base station (204) is placed during a beginning portion (315) of a frame (300) prior to any data transmission (511, 609). By placing preamble/broadcast portions in the beginning of the frame, the data transmission portions of the frame can be allowed to vary in time, yet synchronization will be allowed between all nodes in the system.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for relaying data within a multi-hop communication system (200) is provided herein. During operation, all preamble (301, 305) and broadcast (303, 307) information for relaying nodes (201) and for the base station (204) is placed during a beginning portion (315) of a frame (300) prior to any data transmission (511, 609). By placing preamble/broadcast portions in the beginning of the frame, the data transmission portions of the frame can be allowed to vary in time, yet synchronization will be allowed between all nodes in the system.
Abstract:
At least one operating condition is determined for a first mobile subscriber station (104) that is operating in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) network. The first mobile subscriber station (104) is handed off from a base station (102) to a relay station (110). Based upon the at least one operating condition, at least one sub-channel is subsequently assigned from a plurality of sub-channels of a frequency band to the first mobile subscriber station (104) in order to provide an assigned sub-channel resource to the first mobile subscriber station (104). The assigned sub-channel resource can potentially be any of the plurality of sub-channels of the frequency band.