Patent ID: 9686061
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A61K,H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A relay station, comprising: at least one antenna, transmit circuitry coupled to the at least one antenna and configured to: receive circuitry coupled to the at least one antenna and configured to: wherein one or more third frequency carriers are allocated for a communication link between the base station and a second subset of the one or more mobile stations; wherein the first, second, and third frequency carriers are separate, non-overlapping carriers that collectively provide increased bandwidth; wherein the first, second and third carriers are long term evolution (LTE) carriers each comprising one or more of orthogonal frequency modulation (OFDM) and Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) and are separated by at least a guard band; and wherein a number of carriers included in at least one of the first, second, and third carriers is changed.