Patent ID: 11902944
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. An electronic apparatus in an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) system, comprising:
processing circuitry, configured to:
receive, from a parent node of the electronic apparatus, a time slot format cycle of a link between the electronic apparatus and the parent node, wherein the time slot format cycle comprises a predetermined number of time slots;
receive time slot configuration information from the parent node; and
determine, according to the time slot configuration information, a time slot format of each of time slots of the link within one time slot format cycle, wherein
the time slot configuration information comprises identification information of the time slot format of each of the time slots within one time slot format cycle, or
the time slot configuration information comprises identification information of each of one or more time slots in which uplink/downlink conversion occurs within one time slot format cycle, and identification information of a time slot format of the time slot.