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

Claim 13:
14. A method comprising:
receiving, at a first user equipment from at least one base station in a multi-user network comprising a plurality of user equipments, downlink information comprising at least:
an indication of at least one resource scheduled for the first user equipment of a plurality of downlink resources, wherein the plurality of downlink resources comprise first downlink resources configured for communicating first downlink messages to a first downlink group of the user equipments having strongest channels, and second downlink resources for communicating second downlink messages to a second downlink group of the user equipments that are not in the first downlink group, wherein the second resources comprise broadcasting resources and cooperative relaying resources, and
an indication the first user equipment is in the first downlink group;

receiving, at the first user equipment from the at least one base station, the first downlink messages in accordance with the first downlink resources of the downlink information;
the receiving, at the first user equipment from the at least one base station, second downlink messages in accordance with the broadcasting resources of the downlink information;
participating by the first user equipment in a cooperative relaying scheme at least by receiving information from the at least one base station about the cooperative relaying resources to be used for relaying the second downlink messages at least by user equipments in the first group that successfully decoded the second downlink messages, and in response to the first user equipment successfully decoding the second downlink messages, relaying the second downlink messages that were successfully decoded using the cooperative relaying resources.