Patent ID: 8818427
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: using a common air interface resource for both backhaul communication between a donor base station and a relay base station and access communication between the relay base station and one or more user equipment (UE) devices, the common air interface resource being divided over time into a sequence of subframes each being used for either the backhaul communication or the access communication, wherein the sequence of subframes is grouped into repeated cycles of a particular number of subframes each, and the Nth subframe per cycle is usable as a paging subframe for carrying page messages for the access communication; in a given one of the cycles, using the Nth subframe for the backhaul communication but not for the access communication; and in a next one of the cycles after the given cycle, using the Nth subframe for the access communication but not for the backhaul communication.