Patent ID: 9215658
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: H04B,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method, in the wireless relay apparatus, for controlling a mobile station dominated by a relay apparatus to adjust a sleep mode, wherein the method comprises: judging, by the relay apparatus, whether previous hop network equipment of the relay apparatus needs to resend data packets and/or scheduling information to the mobile station; generating, by the relay apparatus, adjustment related information for adjusting the sleep mode of the mobile station when the previous hop network equipment of the relay apparatus needs to resend data packets and/or scheduling information to the mobile station according to network configuration information obtained from a base station dominating the relay apparatus, wherein the network configuration information comprises position information of the relay apparatus in a multi-hop relay network, and the generating of the adjustment related information further comprises determining a starting time of the triggered listening status according to the position information; and sending the adjustment related information for adjusting the sleep mode of the mobile station, by the relay apparatus, to the mobile station when the previous hop network equipment needs to resend data packets and/or scheduling information to the mobile station.