Communication method of a macro base station, a vehicular moving relay, and a vehicular moving terminal

A communication method of a vehicular moving relay, the method comprising:

• receiving, by being positioned in a macro cell of a macro base station, information about a unique code allocated to a moving terminal in response to a determination to improve a quality of a communication service, wherein the information about the unique code is broadcasted in the macro cell by the macro base station;
• receiving, by being positioned in a virtual cell of the moving terminal, the unique code, wherein the unique code is broadcasted in the virtual cell by the moving terminal;
• determining whether to repeat data to the moving terminal without requesting a handover from the macro base station using the unique code;
• and
• repeating the data to the moving terminal in response to determining to repeat the data, wherein the
• allocating the unique code to the moving terminal comprises allocating a wireless resource with respect to a layer 3 (L3) mode prior to a wireless resource with respect to a layer 1 (L1) mode in response to the vehicular moving relay operating in the L3 mode in which a handover from the macro base station is requested and operating in the L1 mode in which the vehicular moving relay repeats the data to an adjacent moving terminal without requesting the handover from the macro base station.

A communication method of a macro base station in a communication system including a vehicular moving relay, the method comprising:

• transmitting data to a moving terminal;
• allocating a unique code of the moving terminal and a wireless resource of the moving terminal corresponding to the unique code, in response to a request for allocation of the unique code from the moving terminal or a determination to improve a quality of a communication service;
• broadcasting, in a macro cell of the macro base station, information about the unique code and the wireless resource of the moving terminal corresponding to the unique code, in order to search for the vehicular moving relay in a mode to repeat the data to the moving terminal without requesting a handover from the macro base station;
• and
• transmitting data to the vehicular moving relay, wherein the vehicular moving relay receives the information broadcasted in the macro cell by being positioned in the macro cell and receives the unique code broadcasted in a virtual cell of the moving terminal by being positioned in the virtual cell, wherein
• the allocating comprises allocating a wireless resource with respect to a layer 3 (L3) mode prior to a wireless resource with respect to a layer 1 (L1) mode in response to the vehicular moving relay operating in the L3 mode in which a handover from the macro base station is requested and operating in the L1 mode in which the vehicular moving relay repeats the data to an adjacent moving terminal without requesting the handover from the macro base station.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein program instructions to cause a processor to implement a method comprising:

• receiving data transmitted by a macro base station;
• checking a quality of a communication service provided to a moving terminal using the received data;
• determining whether to improve the quality of the communication service in response to checking the quality of the communication service;
• in response to determining to improve the quality of the communication service, broadcasting a unique code of the moving terminal in a virtual cell of the moving terminal to search for a vehicular moving relay in a mode that repeats data to the moving terminal without requesting a handover from a macro base station to the vehicular moving relay, wherein the unique code is allocated by the macro base station and information about the unique code is broadcasted by the moving terminal in a macro cell of the macro base station;
• receiving data repeated by the vehicular moving relay using the unique code, wherein the vehicular moving relay receives the information broadcasted in the macro cell by being positioned in the macro cell and receives the unique code broadcasted in the virtual cell by being positioned in the virtual cell;
• and
• combining the data received from the macro base station and the data repeated by the vehicular moving relay.