Patent ID: 11902875
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method of operating a terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the method comprising:
selecting a first relay node from a plurality of relay nodes of the telecommunications system;
exchanging, by the terminal device with a base station of the telecommunications system via the first relay node, signals including a signal indicating a reselection threshold value that is a threshold for signal quality of a relay node and is a fixed dB set by the base station;
comparing a first signal characteristic with the reselection threshold value, the first signal characteristic associated with the first relay node;
in a case that the first signal characteristic is greater than the reselection threshold value, exchanging signals with the base station via the first relay node; and
in a case that the first signal characteristic is less than the reselection threshold value,
selecting a second relay node from the plurality of relay nodes having a second signal characteristic which is greater than the first signal characteristic, and
exchanging the signals with the base station via the second relay node.