Patent ID: 9603029
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A mobile communications network for communicating a sequence of data blocks to mobile communications devices via a wireless access interface, the mobile communications network including a plurality of base stations disposed throughout the network and arranged in operation to transmit to the mobile communications devices a broadcast signal providing the sequence of data blocks in a sequence of transmission frames, each data block of the sequence being transmitted by each of the base stations contemporaneously for each of the sequence of transmission frames, and one or more relay nodes arranged in operation to receive the broadcast signal transmitted by one of the base stations and to retransmit the broadcast signal, the broadcast signal being re-transmitted as the sequence of data blocks on the same frequency as the broadcast signal transmitted by the base station, so that one or more of the mobile communications devices can receive the broadcast signal and recover the sequence of data blocks from one or both of the broadcast signal transmitted by the base station or the broadcast signal transmitted by the relay node, wherein the mobile communications devices each include