Patent ID: 8718541
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for optimizing the location and configuration of a relay station in a wireless network, comprising: optimizing a relay station location within a cell at a distinct antenna height by balancing an antenna radiation pattern and a service outage area of at least one base station in the cell against a data link throughput between the relay station and the at least one base station, wherein the relay station receives data from the at least one base station with a narrow-beam directional antenna and forwards the data to some of destination stations with a wide-beam directional antenna, wherein the data link throughput provides that data is transmitted from the at least one base station to each relay station in the cell within a desired filling time prior to a parallel transmission of a same data by the relay station and the at least one base station to a destination station, and wherein the relay station is placed closer to the at least one base station to reduce the filling time and to enable the high-throughput data parallel transmission as the number of relay stations increases.