Patent ID: 9385801
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for receiving acknowledgement information at a base station, the method comprising: transmitting, by the base station to a relay node, a downlink data; and receiving, by the base station from the relay node, the acknowledgement information in response to the downlink data, using resources for transmission of the acknowledgement information, wherein the downlink data is transmitted on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a subframe indicated by a subframe configuration pattern configured for a transmission from the base station to the relay node which is provided by a higher layer signaling from the base station, and the subframe configuration pattern includes information about a subframe in which the downlink data is transmitted from the base station to the relay node, and wherein the acknowledgement information is transmitted from the relay node to the base station in a specific subframe that is determined based on information provided in the subframe configuration pattern.