Smart relay network
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsChandra Sekhar Bontu, David G. Steer
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Abstract
A wireless relay node network includes a plurality of relay devices wherein each relay device is configured to receive a first wireless signal in a first frequency band, and transmit a second wireless signal derived from the first wireless signal using a first set of network use parameters. The plurality of relay devices includes at least a first relay device and a second relay device. The first relay device is configured to select the first set of network use parameters from network resources available for communicating over the wireless relay node network based, at least in part, on a control signal received from the second relay device. The second control signal identifies a second set of network use parameters used by the second relay device.
Claims28
A relay device for a wireless local area network comprising at least two relay devices, the relay device comprising:
- a first transceiver module configured to:
- receive a first wireless signal in a first frequency band from a base station of a first external wireless network, and
- transmit a second wireless signal in a second frequency band to a user device,
- wherein the first external wireless network is external to the wireless local area network, and serves a plurality of user-equipments;
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- a controller configured to select the second frequency band based, at least in part, on resource usage of a second relay device of the wireless local area network and resource usage of the base station of the first external wireless network, the second relay device being different from a user-equipment of the plurality of user-equipments.
A wireless relay node network comprising:
- a plurality of relay devices wherein each relay device is configured to receive a first wireless signal in a first frequency band from a base station of a first external wireless network, and transmit a second wireless signal in a second frequency band to a user device, the second wireless signal based, at least in part, on resource usage of other relay devices and resource usage of the external wireless network,
- wherein the first external wireless network is external to the wireless relay node network, and serves a plurality of user-equipments, and
- wherein the plurality of relay devices includes at least a first relay device and a second relay device, the first relay device being configured to select the second frequency band based, at least in part, on a communication received from at least the second relay device, each of the first and second relay devices being different from a user-equipment of the plurality of user-equipments.
A method comprising:
- selecting a relay device from a plurality of relay devices connected in a wireless local area network to communicate with one or more user, based at least on a communication between at least two of the plurality of relay devices, each of the at least two of the plurality of relay devices being different from the one or more user-equipments;
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- relaying, by the selected relay device, wireless signals between an external wireless network and the one or more user-equipments, using a set of radio resources available for communication over the wireless local area network, wherein the selected relay device selects the set of radio resources based on resource usage of other relay devices and resource usage of the external wireless network,
- wherein the external wireless network is external to the wireless local area network, and serves the one or more user-equipments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.