Patent ID: 8750195
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for communications controller operation, the method comprising: receiving a report from a communications node served by a communications controller, the report comprising a plurality of channel measurements for a plurality of channels between the communications node and two or more neighboring relay nodes; establishing, between the communications controller and the two or more neighboring relay nodes, a cooperative operation for communicating data to the communications node; and transmitting, by the communications controller, a first data packet and a first scheduling information to the two or more neighboring relay nodes in accordance with the cooperative operation, wherein the first scheduling information specifies a first time period in which the two or more neighboring relay nodes are scheduled to simultaneously transmit the first data packet to the communications node using a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission technique in accordance with the cooperative operation, and wherein the first data packet is not communicated over an air interface between the communications node and the communications controller.