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

Claim 22:
23. A method of wireless communication operable at a first pico base station communicatively coupled with a macro base station, comprising:
transmitting or receiving, at the first pico base station, an access link traffic between the first pico base station and a UE based on potential interference of the access link traffic to a backhaul link traffic between the macro base station and a second pico base station, the access link traffic utilizing at least a portion of a transmission resource designated for the backhaul link traffic;
determining a first direction of the access link traffic to be an uplink direction or a downlink direction based on a second direction of the backhaul link traffic, 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.