Patent ID: 9232516
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. In a wireless communication system in which a donor base station is configured to serve user equipment devices (UEs) over a donor access link and is configured to serve a relay node over a relay backhaul link, and in which the relay node is configured to serve UEs over a relay access link, a method of allocating frequency bandwidth between the relay backhaul link and the donor access link, the method comprising: assigning one or more first public land mobile network (PLMN)-priority weights to one or more UEs served over the relay access link by the relay node, wherein the one or more first PLMN-priority weights includes, for each of the one or more UEs served over the relay access link by the relay node, a respective first PLMN-priority weight based on a priority level of a PLMN to which the UE subscribes; assigning one or more second PLMN-priority weights to one or more UEs served over the donor access link by the donor base station, wherein the one or more second PLMN-priority weights includes, for each of the one or more UEs served over the donor access link by the donor base station, a respective second PLMN-priority weight based on a priority level of a PLMN to which the UE subscribes; comparing (i) a representative relay priority level based on the assigned one or more first PLMN-priority weights with (ii) a representative donor access priority level based on the assigned one or more second PLMN-priority weights; establishing an allocation of the frequency bandwidth between the relay backhaul link and the donor access link based on the comparing of the representative relay priority level with the representative donor access priority level; and applying the established allocation.