Patent ID: 11930486
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A macro base station for wireless communication, comprising:
a communication interface configured for wireless communication with a first pico base station and a second pico base station;
one or more memories;
and
one or more processors operatively coupled to the communication interface and the one or more memories, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
transmit or receive, at the macro base station, a backhaul link traffic between the macro base station and the second pico base station in a first direction utilizing at least a portion of a transmission resource of an access link traffic between the first pico base station and a user equipment (UE) in a second direction,
wherein the first direction comprises an uplink direction or a downlink direction, wherein the second direction comprises an uplink direction or a downlink direction, wherein the first direction of the access link traffic is different from the second direction of the backhaul link traffic, and wherein the macro base station, the first pico base station and the second pico base station are different base stations.