Patent ID: 11930486
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A first pico base station for wireless communication, comprising:
a communication interface configured for wireless communication with a macro base station and a user equipment (UE);
one or more memories; and
one or more processors operatively coupled to the communication interface and the one or more memories, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
transmit or receive, at the first pico base station, an access link traffic between the first pico base station and the UE in a first direction utilizing at least a portion of a transmission resource designated for a backhaul link traffic between the macro base station and a second pico base station in a second direction,
wherein the first direction comprises an uplink direction or a downlink direction, wherein the second direction comprises an uplink direction or a downlink direction, wherein the first direction of the access link traffic is different from the second direction of the backhaul link traffic, and wherein the macro base station, the first pico base station and the second pico base station are different base stations.