Patent ID: 8619724
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A relay transmission method, comprising: performing, by a base station, transmission between the base station and a relay node (RN) on a relay link, the relay link comprising an uplink (UL) relay link from the RN to the base station and a downlink (DL) relay link from the base station to the RN; wherein a time division duplex (TDD) frame includes ten subframes that are labeled as 0 to 9 from a first subframe to a tenth subframe, subframes 0, 5 and 9 of the TDD frame being downlink subframes, subframes 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8 of the TDD frames being uplink subframes, and subframes 1 and 6 of the TDD being special subframes; wherein subframe 9 of the TDD frame is configured for the DL relay link and subframe 4 of the TDD frame is configured for the UL relay link.