Wireless relay system, wireless relay method and base station apparatus

A wireless relay method performed by a wireless relay system including a plurality of terminal station apparatuses and a base station apparatus configured to relay data traffic transmitted through wireless communication between the plurality of terminal station apparatuses, the method comprising a terminal station transmission step in which the terminal station apparatuses transmit pieces of upstream data traffic to the base station apparatus a base station reception step in which the base station apparatus receives the pieces of upstream data traffic from the plurality of terminal station apparatuses:

• an encoding step in which, if the pieces of upstream data traffic that require mutual forwarding in opposing directions between the plurality of terminal station apparatuses are present in the respective pieces of upstream data traffic received through the base station reception step the base station apparatus performs network encoding on the respective pieces of upstream data traffic such that the pieces of upstream data traffic are pieces of data traffic of mutually identical content a base station transmission step in which the base station apparatus simultaneously transmits respective pieces of encoded data traffic indicating the pieces of data traffic subjected to network encoding through the encoding step as downstream data traffic to the plurality of terminal station apparatuses that transmitted the pieces of upstream data traffic a terminal station reception step m which the terminal station apparatuses receive the pieces of encoded data traffic transmitted from the base station apparatus, and a decoding step in which the terminal station apparatuses decode the pieces of encoded data traffic received through the terminal station reception step using the pieces of upstream data traffic transmitted through the terminal station transmission step.