Patent ID: 11924895
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 21:
22. A method of wireless communication by a base station, comprising:
establishing a first direct communication link with a user equipment (UE);
establishing a second direct communication link with a relay UE;
communicating configuration information with the UE and the relay UE to individually configure the UE and the relay UE for a sidelink communication link to enable the relay UE to relay communications between the base station and the UE; and
receiving data from and transmitting data to the UE on both the first direct communication link and the second direct communication link in response to the sidelink communication link being established with the transmitted data on the first direct communication link and the second direct communication link being duplicative using packet data convergence protocol (PDCP).