Patent ID: 7606182
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A cooperative relay transmission method for use in a base station of a wireless communication system configured by a plurality of terminals and the base station for providing a network access service to the plurality of terminals in which one of the plurality of terminals is selected as a source terminal and at least one of the other terminals is used as a relay node for relaying communication between the base station and the source terminal, comprising: initializing parameters for relay communication; broadcasting a relay communication request message comprising the parameters; setting a possible relay terminal for performing the relay communication between the base station and the source terminal among the plural of terminals in response to the relay communication request message; receiving uplink signals from the source terminal and relay terminals; and combining and decoding the uplink signals received from the source terminal and relay terminals, wherein the parameters include a maximum number of relay terminals (N wherein the step of setting the relay terminal comprises: