Patent ID: 8649281
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: H03M,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A base station for use in a wireless communication network comprising a relay station capable of relaying communications between the base station and a subscriber station, the base station comprising: a plurality of antennas; and a transmitter coupled to the plurality of antennas and configured to transmit a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a plurality of resource blocks in two consecutive slots in a subframe, wherein a relay physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) region is semi statically configured by higher layer signaling as two sets of OFDM symbols in the subframe, such that a first of the two sets of OFDM symbols is configured for downlink scheduling assignments and a second of the two sets of OFDM symbols is configured for uplink scheduling assignments, wherein the second set of OFDM symbols configured for uplink scheduling assignments is contained in at least a second in time of the two consecutive slots.