Base station coordination through co-located relays
OwnerQinghua Li, Wendy C. Wong +1inventors
InventorsQinghua Li, Wendy C. Wong, Hujun Yin
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Abstract
A relay station, which is used to communicate between a base station and a subscriber station in a wireless communications network, may also be used to communicate between the base station and another base station in an adjacent network by having the relay station communicate a message to or from the other base station, either directly or through another relay station associated with the other base station. In some embodiments, relay stations in adjacent networks may be co-located, so that they can communicate with each other over a short high-speed link. In some embodiments this link may be suitable for direct digital communications rather than through modulated carrier signals.
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An apparatus, comprising
- a first relay station to communicate wirelessly in a wireless communications network, the first relay station having a computing platform, a modulator, and a demodulator, wherein the first relay station is to:
- communicate a first message originated by a first base station and destined for a second base station;
- and
- communicate a second message between one of the first and second base stations and a first subscriber station associated with said one of the first and second base stations.
A method, comprising:
- communicating, by a first relay station, a first message that was originated by a first base station and is destined for a second base station;
- communicating, by the first relay station, a second message between one of the first and second base stations,and a first subscriber station associated with said one of the first and second base stations.
An article comprising
- a tangible computer-readable medium that contains instructions, which when executed by one or more processors in a first relay station, result in performing operations comprising:
- communicating a first message that was originated by a first base station and is destined for a second base station;
- communicating a second message between one of the first and second base stations and a first subscriber station associated with said one of the first and second base stations.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a first base station having a processor and at least one antenna to communicate wirelessly with a subscriber station associated with the first base station through a relay station, the first base station to also communicate information with a second base station through the first relay station;
- wherein the first base station, the relay station, and the subscriber station are each part of a same wireless communications network.
An article comprising
- a tangible computer-readable medium that contains instructions, which when executed by one or more processors result in performing operations comprising:
- wirelessly transmitting information from a first base station to a relay station associated with the first base station in a wireless network, the information destined for a second base station not in the first network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.