Patent ID: 8031604
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A station, comprising: a transmitter to communicate in a multi-hop communications network using a multi-phase frame structure in a channel shared by the transmitter and a receiver of the station, the frame structure including a downlink (DL) subframe at the beginning of the frame, the DL subframe comprising an access link in an even phase and a relay link in an odd phase of the DL subframe wherein a first symbol in the DL subframe is a preamble, and an uplink (UL) subframe at the end of the frame structure comprising an access link in the even phase and a relay link in the odd phase, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit in an even DL phase when the station is designated as an even number of hops from a multi-hop relay base station (MR-BS) and transmit in an odd downlink phase when designated as an odd number of hops from the MR-BS; and the receiver, wherein the receiver and the transmitter are configured to not transmit and receive simultaneously.