Patent ID: 9673885
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: receiving, by a first mobile communication device, a plurality of beacon signals from a plurality of relay candidates during a relay selection period of a frame; estimating, by the first mobile communication device, a pathloss from each of the plurality of relay candidates to the first mobile communication device to generate a first capacity estimate for the first mobile communication device for each of the plurality of relay candidates; receiving, by the first mobile communication device, from a second mobile communication device, a second capacity estimate for the second mobile communication device for each of the plurality of relay candidates; and selecting, by the first mobile communication device, a relay from the plurality of relay candidates for relaying communications between the first mobile communication device and the second mobile communication device based at least in part on each first capacity estimate for the first mobile communication device and each second capacity estimate for the second mobile communication device.