Hybrid automatic repeat request and scheduling for wireless cellular systems with local traffic managers

A method, comprising:

• configuring, by a local manager node device comprising a processor, common downlink control information that identifies a transmitter node device managed by the local manager node device and schedules an associated data transmission by the transmitter node device to a receiver node device in a three-party wireless communication system;
• transmitting, by the local manager node device, the common downlink control information to the transmitter node device and the receiver node device;
• in response to determining that the common downlink control information was correctly received by the transmitter node device, deeming, by the local manager node device, the transmitting of the common downlink control information as successfully completed;
• and
• in response to determining that the common downlink control information was not correctly received by the transmitter node device, retransmitting, by the local manager node device, corresponding common downlink control information to the transmitter node device and the receiver node device, in which the corresponding common downlink control information identifies the transmitter node device and reschedules an associated data transmission by the transmitter node device to the receiver node device.