Patent ID: 9621314
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for communicating with a base station (BS) which uses a BS frame in a wireless communication system, the method performed by a relay station (RS) and comprising: determining, by the RS based on both a timing applied to the BS frame and a timing applied to a RS frame, at least one subframe of the RS frame for receiving a signal from the BS; and receiving, by the RS, the signal in the at least one subframe of the RS frame, wherein the at least one subframe of the RS frame is configured as a Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe by the RS, wherein the at least one subframe is determined according to the timing applied to the BS frame with an exception of any subframes of the BS frame that are not configurable as an MBSFN subframe according to the timing applied to the RS frame, and wherein subframes of the RS frame that are not configurable as a MBSFN subframe according to the timing applied to the RS frame are fixed.