Patent ID: 11956176
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A base station including a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) in a wireless communication system, the base station comprising:
a transceiver; and
at least one processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to:
transmit, by the CU of the base station, configuration information on a symbol of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) DU via a F1 application protocol (F1AP) interface, to the IAB DU included in an IAB node, wherein the symbol is configured as at least one of a hard, a soft, or unavailable,
in case that a first resource block (RB) set is configured as a soft based on the configuration information, wherein at least one of a transmission or a reception of a first signaling by the IAB DU on the first soft RB set is performed, and

wherein a transmission or a reception of a second signaling by an IAB mobile terminal (MT) included in the IAB node on the first soft RB set is performed and not changed due to use of the first soft RB set by the IAB DU.