Patent ID: 11895688
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. The method as in claim 4, further comprising transmitting downlink control information indicative of at least one of:
time/frequency resources of the scheduled first, second, third, and/or fourth resources;
an indication of a type of cooperative relaying to be used as part of the cooperative relaying scheme;
an assignment to a relaying group such that second uplink messages and/or second downlink messages are cooperatively relayed between user equipments assigned to the same relaying group;
a list of candidate relay user equipments wherein a second downlink message and/or a second uplink message is relayed only in response to said second downlink message and/or a second uplink message corresponding to a user equipment within the list; or
one or more rules for each of the user equipments to autonomously decide whether to relay a given second uplink message and/or second downlink message.