Method and apparatus for wireless resource allocation for relay in wireless communication system

A method of monitoring a relay control channel of a relay station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

• receiving configuration information through a higher layer signal, the configuration information including information regarding an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol at which a relay zone begins;
• detecting a relay control channel by monitoring the relay zone in a subframe based on the configuration information;
• and
• receiving data of the relay station through a data channel indicated by a radio resource allocation of the detected relay control channel,
• wherein the subframe comprises a plurality of OFDM symbols in a time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain,
• wherein the relay zone comprises a subset of the plurality of OFDM symbols in the time domain and a portion of the plurality of subcarriers in the frequency domain,
• wherein the configuration information indicates an OFDM symbol from among a second OFDM symbol, a third OFDM symbol and a fourth OFDM symbol of the plurality of OFDM symbols of the subframe, and
• wherein the relay control channel is transmitted from the fourth OFDM symbol of the subframe.