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

Claim 11:
12. The apparatus as in claim 11, wherein the one or more memories further store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus at least to perform: 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.