Patent Publication Number: US-11382053-B2

Title: Device and method for performing wireless backhaul communication in wireless communication system

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     This application is a 371 National Stage of International Application No. PCT/KR2018/012631, filed Oct. 24, 2018, which claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2017-0138593, filed Oct. 24, 2017, the disclosures of which are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety. 
     BACKGROUND 
     1. Field 
     The disclosure generally relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a device and method for performing wireless backhaul communication in a wireless communication system. 
     2. Description of Related Art 
     To meet the demand for wireless data traffic having increased since deployment of 4 th  generation (4G) communication systems, efforts have been made to develop an improved 5 th  generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system. Therefore, the 5G or pre-5G communication system is also called a ‘Beyond 4G Network’ or a ‘Post Long Term Evolution (LTE) System’. 
     The 5G communication system is considered to be implemented in higher frequency (mmWave) bands, e.g., 60 GHz bands, so as to accomplish higher data rates. To decrease propagation loss of the radio waves and increase the transmission distance, the beamforming, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), Full Dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO), array antenna, an analog beam forming, large scale antenna techniques are discussed in 5G communication systems. 
     In addition, in 5G communication systems, development for system network improvement is under way based on advanced small cells, cloud Radio Access Networks (RANs), ultra-dense networks, device-to-device (D2D) communication, wireless backhaul, moving network, cooperative communication, Coordinated Multi-Points (CoMP), reception-end interference cancellation and the like. 
     In the 5G system, Hybrid frequency shift keying (FSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (FQAM) and sliding window superposition coding (SWSC) as an advanced coding modulation (ACM), and filter bank multi carrier (FBMC), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) as an advanced access technology have been developed. 
     In the 5G system, a wireless backhaul network is considered. In this case, a base station may communicate with another base station via a wireless backhaul channel. Specifically, the base station may transmit a wireless backhaul signal to another base station and may receive a wireless backhaul signal from another base station, via a wireless backhaul channel. The base station may receive a wireless access signal from a terminal, or may transmit a wireless access signal to the terminal. When the base station concurrently transmits or receives a wireless backhaul signal and a wireless access signal, or receives, while transmitting one of a wireless backhaul signal and a wireless access signal, receives the other signal, interference may occur between the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal. 
     SUMMARY 
     Based on the foregoing discussion, the disclosure provides a device and method for performing wireless backhaul communication in a wireless communication system. 
     The disclosure provides the device and method for reducing interference between the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal in the wireless communication system. 
     The disclosure provides the device and method for time-synchronization of the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal in the wireless communication system. 
     The disclosure provides the device and method for adjusting transmit time advance (TTA) of an uplink signal such that the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal are time-synchronized with each other in the wireless communication system. 
     Technical Solution 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an operating method of a base station in a wireless communication system includes: transmitting, to at least one node, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal related to the base station; receiving, from the at least one node, at least one signal transmitted in accordance with the transmission time point; and removing, from the at least one signal, interference between the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal. The at least one signal includes at least one of the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an operation method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a base station, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal related to the base station; and transmitting, to the base station, the wireless access signal in accordance with the transmission time point. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a base station device in a wireless communication system includes: a transceiver configured to transmit, to at least one node, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal related to a base station, and receive, from the at least one node, at least one signal transmitted in accordance with the transmission time point; and a controller configured to remove, from the at least one signal, interference between the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal. The at least one signal includes at least one of the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a terminal device in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver configured to receive, from a base station, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of a wireless backhaul signal and a wireless access signal related to the base station, and transmit the wireless access signal to the base station in accordance with the transmission time point. 
     Advantageous Effects 
     A device and method according to various embodiments of the disclosure may adjust transmit time advance (TTA) of an uplink signal such that a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal are time-synchronized with each other, thereby enabling a base station to efficiently remove interference between the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal, and easily identify a desired signal. 
     Effects which can be acquired by the disclosure are not limited to the above described effects, and other effects that have not been mentioned may be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  illustrates a wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 2  illustrates a configuration of a base station in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 3  illustrates a configuration of a terminal in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 4A  to  FIG. 4C  illustrate a configuration of a communicator in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 5  illustrates structures of various subframes according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 6  illustrates a symbol structure for at least one symbol of a wireless backhaul signal and a wireless access signal in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 7  illustrates a flowchart of a base station in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 8  illustrates a flowchart of a terminal in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 9A  and  FIG. 9B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a first communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 10A  and  FIG. 10B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a second communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 11A  and  FIG. 11B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a third communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 12A  and  FIG. 12B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a fourth communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 13A  and  FIG. 13B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a fifth communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 14A  and  FIG. 14B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a sixth communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 15A  and  FIG. 15B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a seventh communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 16  illustrates a flowchart of a TTA determination device in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 17A  to  FIG. 17C  illustrate flowcharts of a TTA determination device when a multi-hop relay scheme is supported in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; 
         FIG. 18  illustrates a flowchart of transmitting information relating to TTA between a terminal and a base station in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure; and 
         FIG. 19  illustrates a procedure of transmitting information relating to TTA between a donor base station, a relay base station, and a terminal in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     The terms used in the disclosure are only used to describe specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the disclosure. A singular expression may include a plural expression unless they are definitely different in context. Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meanings as those commonly understood by a person skilled in the art to which the disclosure pertains. Such terms as those defined in a generally used dictionary may be interpreted to have the meanings identical or similar to the contextual meanings in the relevant field of art, and are not to be interpreted to have ideal or excessively formal meanings unless clearly defined in the disclosure. In some cases, even the terms defined in the disclosure should not be interpreted to exclude embodiments. 
     Hereinafter, various embodiments will be described based on an approach of hardware. However, various embodiments include a technology that uses both hardware and software and thus, the various embodiments may not exclude the perspective of software. 
     The disclosure, hereinafter, relates to a device and method for reducing interference related to wireless backhaul communication in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the disclosure describes a technique for removing interference between a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal in the wireless communication system. 
     Hereinafter, terms referring to a signal to be used, terms referring to a channel, terms referring to control information, terms referring to network entities, terms referring to elements of a device, and the like are illustrated for convenience of explanation. Accordingly, the disclosure is not limited to the following terms and other terms having the same technical meaning may be used. 
     The disclosure describes various embodiments by using terms used in some communication specifications (e.g., 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)), but this is merely illustrative. Various embodiments may also be easily modified and applied to other communication systems. 
     Hereinafter, definitions of terms used in the disclosure are as follows. 
     A “donor base station” refers to a base station that provides access to another base station via a wireless backhaul channel, and a “relay base station” refers to a base station that accesses another base station via the wireless backhaul channel. In other words, the donor base station refers to a base station that transmits a downlink signal to a relay base station via a wireless backhaul channel, and the relay base station refers to a base station that receives the downlink signal from the donor base station via the wireless backhaul channel. 
     A “wireless backhaul signal” refers to a signal transmitted or received via the wireless backhaul channel between the donor base station and the relay base station. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, the wireless backhaul signal may be also referred to as a “backhaul signal” or an “inter-BS signal”. 
     A “wireless access signal” refers to a signal transmitted or received via a wireless backhaul channel between a terminal and a base station. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, the wireless access signal may be also referred to as an “access signal” or an “inter-BS signal”. 
     A “reference synchronization time” may be defined with respect to a terminal or a base station. For example, the reference synchronization time point of a terminal refers to a point of time at which the terminal receives a downlink signal from a base station when the terminal receives a synchronization signal and is time-synchronized with the base station. The reference synchronization time point of the base station refers to a point of time at which the base station transmits a downlink signal to the terminal. In the wireless backhaul communication, a reference synchronization time point of a relay base station refers to a point of time at which the relay base station receives a downlink signal from a donor base station when the relay base station receives a synchronization signal from the donor base station and is time-synchronized with the donor base station. The relay base station may transmit a downlink signal to a terminal or another relay base station at the reference synchronization time point. The reference synchronization time point of the donor base station refers to a point of time at which the donor base station transmits a downlink signal to the terminal, or the relay base station. 
     “Transmit time advance (TTA)” refers to a time offset of a point of time, at which a certain node transmits an uplink signal, with respect to a reference synchronization time point of the node. For example, if TTA for a certain node has a positive value, the node transmits an uplink signal at a time point preceding, by the TTA, a reference synchronization time point. On the other hand, if TTA for a certain node has a negative value, the node transmits an uplink signal at a time point delayed by the TTA compared to the reference synchronization time point. As the above description, the sign of the TTA is defined as an example, and the sign of the TTA may be defined in reverse. Since a transmission time point of an uplink signal may be determined according to TTA, in the disclosure, the TTA may be used to have the same meaning as the transmission time point of the uplink signal. TTA may be referred to as time advance (TA). 
     “Receive time advance (RTA)” refers to a time offset of a point of time, at which a certain node receives an uplink signal, with respect to a reference synchronization time point of the node. For example, if RTA for a certain node has a positive value, the node receives an uplink signal at a time point preceding, by the RTA, a reference synchronization time point. On the other hand, if RTA for a certain node has a negative value, the node receives an uplink signal at a time point delayed by the RTA compared to the reference synchronization time point. As the above description, the sign of the RTA is defined as an example, and the sign of the RTA may be defined in reverse. Since a reception time point of an uplink signal may be determined according to RTA, in the disclosure, the RTA may be used to have the same meaning as the reception time point of the uplink signal. 
     A “round-trip time (RTT)” refers to a time taken for a signal to travel a round-trip distance between two nodes performing communication. 
     A “signal related to a base station” refers to a signal received or transmitted by the base station. 
     “Time-synchronization of signals” means that, with respect to a certain node related the signals, reception time points and transmission time points of the signals or a transmission time point and a reception time point of the signal match each other. In various embodiments of the disclosure, time-synchronization of signals may be used to have the same meaning as time-synchronization of subframes for the signals. 
     A “communication situation” indicates a direction in which a signal is transmitted or received in each of communication links defined in a wireless communication system. 
     Definitions of the described terms are exemplary and may be replaced with other terms having equivalent meanings. In the disclosure, the definitions of the described terms do not limit the scope of rights. 
       FIG. 1  illustrates a wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure.  FIG. 1  illustrates a base station  110 , a terminal  120 , a base station  130 , and a terminal  140 , as a part of nodes using a wireless channel in the wireless communication system. 
     The base station  110  and the base station  130  are network infrastructures that provide wireless connections to the terminal  120  and the terminal  140 , respectively. The base station  110  and/or the base station  130  have coverage defined as a predetermined geographic area on the basis of a distance in which a signal may be transmitted. The base station  110  and/or the base station  130  may be referred to as, in addition to a base station, an “access point (AP)”, an “eNodeB (eNB)”, a “5 th  generation (5G) node”, a “wireless point”, a “transmission/reception point (TRP)”, or another term having an equivalent technical meaning. 
     Each of the terminal  120  and the terminal  140  is a device used by a user, wherein the terminal  120  may communicate with the base station  110  via a wireless channel, and the terminal  140  may communicate with the base station  130 . In some cases, at least one of the terminal  120  and the terminal  140  may be operated without involvement of a user. That is, at least one of the terminal  120  and the terminal  140  is a device that performs machine type communication (MTC) and may not be carried by a user. Each of the terminal  120  and the terminal  140  may be referred to as, in addition to a terminal, a “user equipment (UE)”, a “mobile station”, a “subscriber station”, a “remote terminal”, a “wireless terminal”, a “user device”, or other terms having equivalent technical meanings. 
     The base station  110 , the terminal  120 , the base station  130 , and the terminal  140  may transmit and receive wireless signals in a millimeter wave band (e.g., 28 GHz, 30 GHz, 38 GHz, and 60 Ghz). In order to improve a channel gain, the base station  110 , the terminal  120 , the base station  130 , and the terminal  140  may perform beamforming. The beamforming may include transmission beamforming and reception beamforming. That is, the base station  110 , the terminal  120 , the base station  130 , and the terminal  140  may assign a directivity to a transmission signal or a reception signal. To this end, the base station  110 , the terminal  120 , the base station  130 , and the terminal  140  may select serving beams  111 ,  115 ,  131 , and  135  via a beam search procedure or a beam management procedure. After the serving beams  111 ,  115 ,  131 , and  135  are selected, communication may then be performed via resources that are in a quasi co-located (QCL) relationship with resources at which the serving beams  111 ,  115 ,  131 , and  135  are transmitted. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  110  and the base station  130  may perform wireless backhaul communication via wireless backhaul channel. For example, the base station  110  may be a donor base station that provides a connection to the base station  130 , and the base station  130  may be a relay base station that is connected to the base station  110 . Although not illustrated, a plurality of relay base stations may be connected to the base station  130  via a wireless backhaul so as to be connected to a wireless communication network. In this case, the base station  130  may be a relay base station of the base station  110 , while functioning as a donor base station for other relay base stations. As described above, a wireless communication environment in which a plurality of relay base stations are connected to each other via a wireless backhaul may be referred to as a multi-hop relay communication environment. 
     The base station  110  and the base station  130  may use a plurality of antennas for wireless access communication and/or wireless backhaul communication. For example, each of the base station  110  and the base station  130  may separately use an antenna only for wireless access communication and an antenna only for wireless backhaul communication, each antenna may be used for wireless backhaul communication or may be used for wireless access communication over time, and the same antenna may be concurrently used for wireless backhaul communication and wireless access communication. Various embodiments of the disclosure may be applied regardless of a type of the antenna use as described above, or may also be applied to all types of the antenna use in addition to the type of the antenna use as described above. 
       FIG. 2  illustrates a configuration of a base station in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. The configuration illustrated in  FIG. 2  may be understood as a configuration of the base station  110  or the base station  130 . The term “-unit” or “-er” used hereinafter may refer to a unit for processing at least one function or operation and may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. 
     Referring to  FIG. 2 , the base station includes a wireless communicator  210 , a backhaul communicator  220 , a storage  230 , and a controller  240 . 
     The wireless communicator  210  performs functions to transmit or receive a signal through a wireless channel. For example, the wireless communicator  210  performs a function of conversion between a baseband signal and a bit stream according to a physical layer standard of a system. For example, when data is transmitted, the wireless communicator  210  generates complex symbols by encoding and modulating a transmission bit stream. Also, when data is received, the wireless communicator  210  restores a reception bit stream by demodulating and decoding a baseband signal. 
     Also, the wireless communicator  210  up-converts a baseband signal into an RF) band signal and transmits the same through an antenna, and down-converts an RF band signal received through an antenna into a baseband signal. To this end, the wireless communicator  210  may include a transmission filter, a reception filter, an amplifier, a mixer, an oscillator, a digital-to-analog convertor (DAC), an analog-to-digital convertor (ADC), and the like. Also, the wireless communicator  210  may include multiple transmission/reception paths. Further, the wireless communicator  210  may include at least one antenna array including multiple antenna elements. 
     In terms of hardware, the wireless communicator  210  may include a digital unit and an analog unit, wherein the analog unit includes multiple sub-units according to an operating power, an operating frequency, and the like. The digital unit may be implemented as at least one processor (e.g., a digital signal processor (DSP)). 
     The wireless communicator  210  transmits and receives a signal as described above. Accordingly, all or a part of the wireless communicator  210  may be referred to as a “transmission unit (transmitter)”, a “reception unit (receiver)”, or a “transmission/reception unit (transceiver)”. Transmission and reception performed through a wireless channel, which will be described in the following descriptions, may be understood to mean that the above-described processing is performed by the wireless communicator  210 . 
     The backhaul communicator  220  provides an interface for performing communication with other nodes within the network. The interface may include at least one of a wireless interface and a wired interface. In other words, the base station may wirelessly communicate with another base station via the backhaul communicator  220 , and may communicate with another base station through a wire. The backhaul communicator  220  converts, into a physical signal, a bit stream transmitted from the base station to another node, for example, another access node, another base station, an upper node, a core network, etc., and converts a physical signal received from another node into a bit stream. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  110  or the base station  130  may communicate with another base station or another network node via a wireless backhaul. In this case, the backhaul communicator  220  may be omitted. 
     The storage  230  may store data, such as a basic program for operation of a base station, an application program, configuration information, and the like. The storage  230  may include a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, or a combination of a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory. The storage  230  provides stored data in response to a request of the controller  240 . 
     The controller  240  controls overall operations of the base station. For example, the controller  240  transmits and receives a signal via the wireless communicator  210  or the backhaul communicator  220 . Further, the controller  240  records data in the storage  230  and reads the recorded data. The controller  240  may perform functions of a protocol stack required by the communication standard. According to another implement, the processor stack may be included in the wireless communicator  210 . To this end, the controller  240  may include at least one processor. 
     According to various embodiments, the controller  240  may transmit, to at least one node, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal related to the base station, may receive at least one signal transmitted according to the transmission time point from the at least one node, and may perform control to remove, from the at least one signal, interference between the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal. The at least one signal may include at least one of the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal. For example, the controller  240  may control the base station to perform operations according to various embodiments described below. 
       FIG. 3  illustrates a configuration of a terminal in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. The configuration illustrated in  FIG. 3  may be understood as a configuration of the terminal  120  or the terminal  140 . The term “-unit” or “-er” used hereinafter may refer to a unit for processing at least one function or operation and may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. 
     Referring to  FIG. 3 , the terminal includes a communicator  310 , a storage  320 , and a controller  330 . 
     The communicator  310  performs functions for transmitting or receiving a signal through a wireless channel. For example, the communicator  310  performs a function of conversion between a baseband signal and a bit stream according to a physical layer standard of a system. For example, when data is transmitted, the communicator  310  generates complex symbols by encoding and modulating a transmission bit stream. Also, when data is received, the communicator  310  restores a reception bit stream by demodulating and decoding a baseband signal. Also, the communicator  310  up-converts a baseband signal into an RF band signal and transmits the same through an antenna, and down-converts an RF band signal received through an antenna into a baseband signal. For example, the communicator  310  may include a transmission filter, a reception filter, an amplifier, a mixer, an oscillator, a DAC, an ADC, and the like. 
     Also, the communicator  310  may include a plurality of transmission/reception paths. Further, the communicator  310  may include at least one antenna array including multiple antenna elements. In terms of hardware, the communicator  310  may include a digital circuit and an analog circuit (e.g., a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC)). The digital circuit and the analog circuit may be implemented in a single package. The communicator  310  may include a plurality of RF chains. Further, the communicator  310  may perform beamforming. 
     The communicator  310  transmits and receives a signal as described above. Accordingly, all or a part of the communicator  310  may be referred to as “a transmitter”, “a receiver”, or “a transceiver”. Also, transmission and reception performed through a wireless channel, which will be described in the following descriptions, may be understood to mean that the above-described processing is performed by the communicator  310 . 
     The storage  320  may store data, such as a basic program for operation of a UE, an application program, configuration information, and the like. The storage  320  may include a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, or a combination of a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory. The storage  320  provides stored data in response to a request of the controller  330 . 
     The controller  330  controls overall operations of the UE. For example, the controller  330  transmits and receives a signal via the communicator  310 . Further, the controller  330  records data in the storage  320  and reads the recorded data. The controller  330  may perform functions of a protocol stack required by the communication standard. To this end, the controller  330  may include at least one processor or a micro-processor, or may be a part of a processor. A part of the communicator  310  and the controller  330  may be referred to as a communication processor (CP). According to various embodiments, the controller  330  may receive, from a base station, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal related to the base station, and may transmit the wireless access signal to the base station according to the transmission time point. For example, the controller  330  may control the terminal to perform operations according to various embodiments described below. 
       FIG. 4A  to  FIG. 4C  illustrate a configuration of a communicator in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure.  FIG. 4A  to  FIG. 4C  illustrate examples of detailed configurations of the wireless communicator  210  of  FIG. 2  or the communicator  310  of  FIG. 3 . Specifically,  FIG. 4A  to  FIG. 4C  illustrate elements to perform beamforming, as a part of the wireless communicator  210  of  FIG. 2  or the communicator  310  of  FIG. 3 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 4A , the wireless communicator  210  or the communicator  310  includes an encoder-and-modulator  402 , a digital beamformer  404 , a plurality of transmission paths  406 - 1  to  406 -N, and an analog beamformer  408 . 
     The encoder-and-modulator  402  performs channel encoding. For channel encoding, at least one among a low density parity check (LDPC) code, a convolution code, and a polar code may be used. The encoder-and-modulator  402  generates modulation symbols by performing constellation mapping. 
     The digital beamformer  404  performs beamforming on a digital signal (e.g., modulation symbols). To this end, the digital beamformer  404  multiplies modulation symbols by beamforming weights. Here, the beamforming weights are used to change a magnitude and phase of a signal, and may be referred to as “a precoding matrix”, “a precoder”, or the like. The digital beamformer  404  outputs digital-beamformed modulation symbols to the plurality of transmission paths  406 - 1  to  406 -N. According to a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission technique, the modulation symbols may be multiplexed or the same modulation symbols may be provided to the plurality of transmission paths  406 - 1  to  406 -N. 
     The plurality of transmission paths  406 - 1  to  406 -N convert digital beamformed-signals into analog-signals. To this end, each of the plurality of transmission paths  406 - 1  to  406 -N may include an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) calculator, a cyclic prefix (CP) insertion unit, a DAC, and an up-converter. The CP insertion unit is for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and may be excluded when another physical layer scheme (e.g., a filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC)) is applied. That is, the plurality of transmission paths  406 - 1  to  406 -N provide independent signal processing processes to a plurality of streams generated via digital beamforming. However, depending on an implementation scheme, some elements of the plurality of transmission paths  406 - 1  to  406 -N may be shared. 
     The analog beamformer  408  performs beamforming on an analog signal. To this end, the digital beamformer  404  multiplies analog signals by beamforming weights. The beamforming weights are used to change a magnitude and a phase of a signal. Specifically, according to a connection structure between the plurality of transmission paths  406 - 1  to  406 -N and antennas, the analog beamformer  408  may be configured as shown in  FIG. 4B  or  FIG. 4C . 
     Referring to  FIG. 4B , signals input to the analog beamformer  408  are transmitted through the antennas via phase/magnitude conversion and amplification calculation. At this time, signals of respective paths are transmitted through different antenna sets, i.e., antenna arrays. Referring to processing of signals input through a first path, the signals are converted into signal sequences having different phases/magnitudes or the same phase/magnitude by phase/magnitude converters  412 - 1 - 1  to  412 - 1 -M, amplified by the amplifiers  414 - 1 - 1  to  414 - 1 -M, and then transmitted through the antennas. 
     Referring to  FIG. 4C , signals input to the analog beamformer  408  are transmitted through the antennas via phase/magnitude conversion and amplification calculation. At this time, signals of respective paths are transmitted through the same antenna set, i.e., an antenna array. Referring to processing of signals input through the first path, the signals are converted into signal sequences having different phases/magnitudes or the same phase/magnitude by the phase/magnitude converters  412 - 1 - 1  to  412 - 1 -M, and amplified by the amplifiers  414 - 1 - 1  to  414 - 1 -M. For transmission through a single antenna array, the amplified signals are combined by combiners  416 - 1 - 1  to  416 - 1 -M on the basis of antenna elements, and then transmitted through the antennas. 
       FIG. 4B  shows an example in which an independent antenna array for each transmission path is used, and  FIG. 4C  shows an example in which transmission paths share one antenna array. However, according to another embodiment, some transmission paths may use an independent array, and the remaining paths may share one antenna array. Further, according to still another embodiment, a structure adaptively changeable depending on a situation may be used by applying a structure switchable between transmission paths and antenna arrays. 
       FIG. 5  illustrates structures of various subframes according to various embodiments of the disclosure. 
     In general, a frame may include a plurality of subframes, and the subframes may include a plurality of symbols, respectively. For example, the symbols may be generated on the basis of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme. A procedure of generating and transmitting a symbol by a transmitter (e.g., the base station  110 , the terminal  120 , the base station  130 , and the terminal  140 ) on the basis of the OFDM scheme may be as follows. For example, the transmitter may modulate data to be transmitted into an M number of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) or phase shift keying (PSK) symbols, and an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) or an inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) of size N (where N≥M) is performed on the modulated symbols, so that the modulated symbols are converted into time domain signals of N samples. Then, the transmitter copies an Ncp number of samples at the back of the N samples, inserts the copied samples as a cyclic prefix (CP) at the front part of the N samples, and generates a time domain OFDM symbol including an Ncp+N number of samples. The transmitter generates OFDM symbols in this way and transmits the generated OFDM symbols to a receiver. A procedure of receiving and processing a symbol by a receiver (e.g., the base station  110 , the terminal  120 , the base station  130 , and the terminal  140 ) on the basis of the OFDM scheme may be as follows. The receiver removes a CP corresponding to an Ncp number of samples at the front part of each time domain OFDM symbol of a received signal, performs DFT or FFT of size N on the remaining N samples to compensate for signal distortion due to a wireless channel, acquires the original M number of QAM or PSK symbols, and then acquires data from the symbols. 
     In the above example, although it is described that the transmitter and/or the receiver process symbols on the basis of the OFDM scheme, this is exemplary and the transmitter and/or receiver may process the symbols on the basis of various schemes. For example, the transmitter and/or receiver may process symbols on the basis of a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) scheme and/or a DFT-spread OFDM scheme. 
     If signals received by the receiver are not time-synchronized with each other, N sample sections considered when performing DFT or FFT of the received signals may not match N sample sections applied to a transmission signal, and symbols adjacent to the N sample sections may be further included so as to cause interference to occur. As a result, performance of receiving the signal may be degraded. As a time-synchronization error between the received signals becomes larger, reception performance may be further degraded. Therefore, in order to prevent the occurrence of interference and the degradation of the received signals, the signals received by the receiver need to be time-synchronized with each other. 
     In general, a subframe  510  may include 14 symbols of symbol  0  to symbol  13 . For example, a time interval of the subframe  510  may be 0.25 ms. As another example, the time interval of the subframe  510  may be 1 ms. A CP may be attached to each of the symbol  0  to symbol  13 . CP lengths may be the same for all symbols, but may be different for some symbols. 
     A subframe  520  shows an example of a downlink subframe for wireless access communication in a time division duplex (TDD) scheme. For example, a base station may transmit information corresponding to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to a terminal via first symbol  0  of the subframe  520 , and may transmit information corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to the terminal via symbol  1  to symbol  11 , and the terminal may transmit information corresponding to a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) to the base station via symbol  13 . Symbol  12  of the subframe  520  may be used as a guard time (GT). The guard time may include a downlink-to uplink transmission gap (DUG) which is a time required to switch a communication mode from downlink to uplink, and a uplink-to-downlink transmission gap (UDG) which is a time required to switch the communication mode from uplink to downlink. The UDG may provide a time required to change, by the base station, configurations of base station elements for receiving uplink signals to configurations for transmitting downlink signals, and may provide a time required to change, by the terminal, configurations of terminal elements for transmitting uplink signals to configurations for receiving downlink signals. On the contrary, the DUG may provide a time required to change, by the base station, configurations of base station elements for transmitting downlink signals to configurations for receiving uplink signals, and may provide a time required to change, by the terminal, configurations of terminal elements for receiving downlink signals to configurations for transmitting uplink signals. Further, the DUG may provide a time required for the base station to time-synchronize uplink signals, which are received from a plurality of terminals, with respect to the base station. 
     A subframe  530  shows an example of an uplink subframe for wireless access communication in a TDD scheme. For example, the base station may transmit information corresponding to the PDCCH to the terminal via symbol  0 , and the terminal may transmit information corresponding to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to the base station via symbol  2  to symbol  12 , and may transmit the PUCCH to the base station via symbol  13 . In the subframe  530 , symbol  1  may be used as guard time. 
     A subframe  540  shows an example of a downlink subframe for wireless backhaul communication in the TDD scheme. For example, a donor base station (e.g., the base station  110 ) may transmit information corresponding to a relay physical downlink channel (rPDCH) to a relay base station (e.g., the base station  130 ) via symbol  1  to symbol  11  in the subframe  540 . The rPDCH may include a PDCCH (rPDCCH) for the relay base station and a PDSCH (rPDSCH) for the relay base station. According to  FIG. 5 , symbol  0  and symbol  13  may not be used for communication in the subframe  540 . However, this is exemplary and symbol  0  and symbol  13  in the subframe  540  may be used for communication. 
     A subframe  550  shows an example of an uplink subframe for wireless backhaul communication in the TDD scheme. For example, the relay base station may transmit, in subframe  550 , information corresponding to a relay physical uplink channel (rPUCH) to the donor base station via symbol  2  to symbol  12 . The rPUCH may include a PUCCH (rPUCCH) for the relay base station and a PUSCH (rPUSCH) for the relay base station. According to  FIG. 5 , symbol  0  and symbol  13  may not be used for communication in the subframe  550 . However, this is exemplary and symbol  0  and symbol  13  in the subframe  550  may be used for communication. 
     The subframe structure illustrated in  FIG. 5  is exemplary. In other words, subframe structures and types of information assigned to the symbols in each of subframes  520 ,  530 ,  540 , and  550  may be different from illustration in  FIG. 5 . 
     The terminal may receive a synchronization signal so as to be time-synchronized with the base station. For example, the synchronization signal may include at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a third synchronization signal (TSS). After the terminal is time-synchronized with the base station, if the terminal transmits an uplink signal to the base station according to a reference synchronization time point of the terminal, the signal transmitted from the terminal is delayed, by an RTT between the terminal and the base station, from a reference synchronization time point of the base station, and reaches the base station. In other words, a time that the uplink signal transmitted by the terminal reaches the base station may vary depending on a distance between the base station and the terminal. Therefore, uplink signals transmitted by a plurality of terminals communicating with the same base station may reach the base station at different times depending on the distance between the terminal and each of the plurality of terminals, and the uplink signals may not be time-synchronized with each other. In order to time-synchronize the uplink signals received from the plurality of terminals, the plurality of terminals may transmit the respective uplink signals at time points preceding, by the RTT, reference synchronization time points thereof. In this case, TTA may be RTT, and all the uplink signals transmitted from the plurality of terminals may be received by the base station at a reference synchronization time point of the base station. In addition, in order for the base station to secure a UDG, TTA may be determined in consideration of the UDG as well as the RTT. When the UDG is considered, the TTA in which the terminals transmit uplink signals may be determined as in shown in &lt;Equation 1&gt; below.
 
TTA=RTT+UDG  [Equation 1]
 
     The TTA refers to a time offset at which the terminal transmits an uplink signal, the RTT refers to a time required for the signal to travel a round-trip distance between the base station and the terminal, and the UDG refers to a minimum time required for the base station to change configurations of base station elements, which receive the uplink signal, to configurations for transmission of a downlink signal. The base station may configure TTA for a plurality of terminals, and the TTA may be configured differently for each terminal. Configuration of the TTA as shown in &lt;Equation 1] is exemplary, and the base station may configure TTA differently in &lt;Equation 1&gt;. 
     If the terminal transmits an uplink signal according to the TTA determined by &lt;Equation 1&gt;, the base station may receive the uplink signal at a time point preceding, by a UDG, a reference synchronization time point of the base station. In other words, if the TTA of the terminal is represented as shown in &lt;Equation 1&gt;, RTA of the base station may be determined as in the following &lt;Equation 2&gt;.
 
RTA=TTA−RTT  [Equation 2]
 
     The RTA refers to a time offset at which a base station receives an uplink signal, the TTA refers to a time offset at which a terminal transmits the uplink signal, and the RTT refers to a time taken for a signal to travel a round-trip distance between the base station and the terminal. 
     If the base station concurrently performs wireless access communication and wireless backhaul communication, interference may occur, and the interference may degrade communication performance. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, RTA or TTA of a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal related to the base station match each other (that is, when the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal related to the base station match each other), the base station may efficiently remove interference of the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal even if the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal are concurrently transmitted or received. For example, on the basis of a symbol structure as shown in  FIG. 6 , the base station may efficiently remove interference of the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal. 
       FIG. 6  illustrates a symbol structure for at least one symbol of a wireless backhaul signal and a wireless access signal in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. 
     According to  FIG. 6 , a symbol  610  may be at least one symbol of a wireless access signal. In the symbol  610 , a reference signal (RS) may be assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k (k=0, 1, . . . , M/6−1, where M is a total number of sub-carriers), no signal may be assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k+3 (null sub-carrier), and data may be assigned to the remaining sub-carriers (=an M*4/6 number of sub-carrier indexes). 
     A symbol  620  may be at least one symbol of the wireless backhaul signal. In the symbol  620 , the reference signal may be assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k+3, no signal may be assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k, and data may be assigned to the remaining sub-carriers (=an M*4/6 number of sub-carrier indexes). 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a symbol number of the symbol  610  in a subframe for the wireless access signal may be the same as a symbol number of the symbol  620  in a subframe for the wireless backhaul signal. For example, the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  may be assigned to symbol location  4  in the subframe for the wireless access signal and symbol location  4  in the subframe for the wireless backhaul signal, respectively. This allows the base station to effectively remove interference between the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal from a desired signal when the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal related to the base station are time-synchronized. 
     For example, in a communication situation where the base station receives the wireless access signal and receives the wireless backhaul signal, the base station may receive the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  at a symbol location of a specific number (e.g., symbol location  4 ) via a reception antenna for wireless access communication, may estimate a wireless access channel value on the basis of reference signals assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k (k=0, 1, . . . , M/6−1, where M is a total number of sub-carriers), and may estimate an interference channel value on the basis of the reference signals assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k+3. Further, in the same communication situation, the base station may receive the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  at a symbol location of a specific number (e.g., symbol location  4 ) via a reception antenna for wireless backhaul communication, may estimate a wireless backhaul channel value on the basis of reference signals assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k+3, and may estimate an interference channel value on the basis of the reference signals assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k. On the basis of estimated channel values, the base station may remove interference from each of the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal. 
     As another example, in a communication situation where the base station receives the wireless access signal and transmits the wireless backhaul signal, the base station may receive the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  at a symbol location of a specific number (e.g., symbol location  4 ) via a reception antenna for wireless access communication, may estimate a wireless access channel value on the basis of reference signals assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k (k=0, 1, . . . , M/6−1, where M is a total number of sub-carriers), and may estimate interference channel values on the basis of the reference signals assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k+3. The base station may estimate interference for the wireless access signal and may remove interference from the wireless access signal, on the basis of the estimated channel values. 
     As still another example, in a communication situation where the base station transmits the wireless access signal and receives the wireless backhaul signal, the base station may receive the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  at a symbol location of a specific number (e.g., symbol location  4 ) via a reception antenna for wireless backhaul communication, may estimate a wireless backhaul channel value on the basis of reference signals assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k+3 (k=0, 1, . . . , M/6−1, where M is a total number of sub-carriers), and may estimate interference channel values on the basis of the reference signals assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k+3. The base station may estimate interference for the wireless backhaul signal and may remove interference from the wireless backhaul signal, on the basis of the estimated channel values. 
     In  FIG. 6 , it has been described that the symbol  610  is at least one symbol of the wireless access signal, and the symbol  620  is at least one symbol of the wireless backhaul signal. However, this is exemplary, and the symbol  610  may be at least one symbol of the wireless backhaul signal, and the symbol  620  may be at least one symbol of wireless access signal. Further, the symbols  610  and  620  may have different structures from those shown in  FIG. 6 . For example, the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  may have any symbol structure in which a reference signal for the wireless backhaul signal and a reference signal for the wireless access signal in the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are arranged in sub-carriers of different indexes in the same index symbol. Further, it has been described that the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are assigned to symbol location  4 . However, this is exemplary, and the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  may be assigned to a symbol location of a number other than 4. 
     As described above, if the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal related to the base station are time-synchronized, and the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of an identical number in a subframe for the wireless access signal and a subframe for the wireless backhaul signal, respectively, the base station may easily estimate an interference channel and interference, and may efficiently remove interference from a desired signal. Hereinafter, a method for time-synchronization of the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal related to the base station will be described in more detail. 
       FIG. 7  illustrates a flowchart of a base station in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. For example,  FIG. 7  illustrates an operation method of the base station  110  or the base station  130 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 7 , operation  701 , a base station transmits, to at least one node, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal related to the base station. Here, the at least one node may include at least one of a base station (i.e., a relay base station), which performs wireless backhaul communication with the base station, and a terminal performing wireless backhaul communication with the base station. The information relating to the transmission time point may include at least one among an index of a value for the transmission time point, a list of values for a plurality of transmission time points including the transmission time point, information relating to a current communication situation, information relating to a sequence in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated, and a period in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated. The information relating to the transmission time point may be transmitted during a procedure of accessing the base station by at least one node. 
     In operation  703 , the base station receives at least one signal transmitted according to the transmission time point from at least one node. The at least one signal may include at least one of the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal. 
     For example, the at least one node may be a terminal. If the terminal transmits, to the base station, the wireless access signal according to the transmission time point indicated by the base station, RTA of the wireless access signal for the base station and RTA or TTA of the wireless backhaul signal related to the base station may be the same. In other words, the wireless access signal transmitted by the terminal according to the transmission time point indicated by the base station may be time-synchronized with the wireless backhaul signal related to the base station. 
     As another example, the at least one node may be a relay base station. If a relay base station transmits, to the base station, the wireless backhaul signal according to the transmission time point indicated by the base station, RTA of the wireless backhaul signal for the base station and RTA or TTA of the wireless access signal related to the base station may be the same. In other words, the wireless backhaul signal transmitted by the relay base station according to the transmission time point indicated by the base station may be time-synchronized with the wireless access signal related to the base station. 
     As still another example, the at least one node may include a relay base station and a terminal. If a relay base station transmits the wireless backhaul signal to the base station according to the transmission time point indicated by the base station, and a terminal also transmits the wireless access signal to the base station according to the transmission time point indicated by the base station, RTA of the wireless backhaul signal for the base station and RTA of the wireless access signal for the base station may be the same. In other words, the wireless access signal and the wireless backhaul signal may be time-synchronized. 
     In operation  705 , the base station removes interference between the wireless backhaul signal and the wireless access signal, in at least one signal. In more detail, the base station may estimate an interference channel on the basis of at least one of a reference signal for the wireless backhaul signal and a reference signal for the wireless access signal, and may estimate interference on the basis of the estimated interference channel. The reference signal for the wireless backhaul signal and the reference signal for the wireless access signal may be disposed in sub-carriers of different indexes in symbols of the same index. 
       FIG. 8  illustrates a flowchart of a terminal in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure.  FIG. 8  illustrates an operation method of the terminal  120  or the terminal  140 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 8 , in operation  801 , a terminal receives, from a base station, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal related to the base station. The information relating to the transmission time point may include at least one among an index of a value for the transmission time point, a list of values for a plurality of transmission time points including the transmission time point, information relating to a current communication situation, information relating to a sequence in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated, and a period in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated. The information relating to the transmission time point may be received during a procedure of accessing the base station by the terminal. 
     In operation  803 , the terminal transmits the wireless access signal to the base station according to the transmission time point. If the terminal transmits the wireless access signal according to the transmission time point indicated by the base station, RTA of the wireless access signal for the base station and RTA or TTA of the wireless backhaul signal related to the base station may be the same. In other words, the wireless access signal transmitted by the terminal according to the transmission time point indicated by the base station may be time-synchronized with the wireless backhaul signal related to the base station. This allows the base station to estimate an interference channel and interference on the basis of reference signals of a symbol received at a symbol location of a specific number, and to effectively remove the interference from a desired signal. 
     The transmission time point of the wireless access signal and/or the transmission time point of the wireless backhaul signal may vary depending on a communication situation. Hereinafter, examples of a case where a transmission time point is determined in each communication situation will be described with reference to  FIG. 9  to  FIG. 15 . 
       FIG. 9A  and  FIG. 9B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a first communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. In  FIG. 9A  and  FIG. 9B , the base station  110  may be a donor base station, and the base station  130  may be a relay base station. 
     According to the first communication situation, the base station  110  transmits a wireless access signal  910 , which is a downlink signal, to the terminal  120  and transmits a wireless backhaul signal  920 , which is a downlink signal, to the base station  130 , and the base station  130  transmits a wireless access signal  930 , which is a downlink signal, to the terminal  140 . These signals may be concurrently transmitted or received via respective wireless channels. In particular, the base station  130  may transmit the wireless access signal  930  to the terminal  140 , while receiving the wireless backhaul signal  920  from the base station  110 . In this case, interference  932  occurring from the wireless access signal  930  is a self-interference (SI), and may be received together with the wireless backhaul signal  920  by the base station  130 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless backhaul signal  920 , the base station  130  should remove the interference  932  from the received signals. 
     A subframe  940  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless access signal  910 . In the wireless access signal  910 , downlink data for the terminal  120  may be transmitted from the base station  110  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  940 . A subframe  950  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  920 . In the wireless backhaul signal  920 , downlink data for the base station  130  may be transmitted from the base station  110  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  950 . The wireless access signal  910  and the wireless backhaul signal  920  are both downlink signals, and therefore the base station  110  transmits the wireless access signal  910  and the wireless backhaul signal  920  at a reference synchronization time point. That is as illustrated in  FIG. 9B , the subframe  940  and the subframe  950  may be time-synchronized with each other. 
     A subframe  960  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless access signal  930 . In the wireless access signal  930 , downlink data for the terminal  140  may be transmitted from the base station  130  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  960 . The wireless backhaul signal  920  and the wireless access signal  930  are both downlink signals, and therefore the base station  130  receives the interference  932 , which has occurred from the wireless backhaul signal  920  and the wireless access signal  930 , at the reference synchronization time point. That is, as illustrated in  FIG. 9B , the subframe  950  and the subframe  960  may be time-synchronized, and the base station  130  may select a DFT section or an FFT section, in which no interference occurs between adjacent symbols, and may perform DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals (including the wireless backhaul signal  920  and the interference  932 ). 
     In the first communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals by the base station  130  may be represented as the following &lt;Equation 3&gt;.
 
 R   1_130 [ n ]= Y   920 [ n ]+ Y   932 [ n ]+ N [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 3]
 
     R 1_130 [n] refers to received signals of the base station  130  in the first communication situation, Y 920 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  920 , Y 932 [n] refers to the interference  932 , N[n] refers to noise, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless backhaul signal  920  and wireless access signal  930 , respectively, the base station  130  may estimate a channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  920  and a channel value of the interference  932  on the basis of the received signals. The interference  932  received by the base station  130  may be determined on the basis of the channel value of the interference  932  and the wireless access signal  930  transmitted by the base station  130 , as shown in &lt;Equation 4&gt;.
 
 Y   932 [ n ]= X   930 [ n ]* H   932 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 4]
 
     Y 932 [n] refers to the interference  932 , X 930 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  930 , H 932 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  932 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, according to &lt;Equation 5&gt;, the base station  130  may remove the interference  932  from the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless backhaul signal  932 .
 
 R   920 [ n ]= R   1_130 [ n ]− Y   932 [ n ]= R   1_130 [ n ]−( X   930 [ n ]* H   932 [ n ]), n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 5]
 
     R 920 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  920  from which interference has been removed, R 1_130 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  130  in the first communication situation, Y 932 [n] refers to the interference  932 , X 930 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  930 , H 932 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  932 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, other interferences  912 ,  913 ,  921 ,  923 , and  931  may also occur, but it is assumed that the interferences may be easily removed according to a suitable interference cancellation technique (e.g., a minimum mean square error-ordered successive interference cancellation (MMSE-OSIC) and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). For example, interference  912  and the interference  921  may occur from the wireless backhaul signal  930  and the wireless access signal  910  transmitted by the base station  110 , but the base station  110  may remove the reference  912  and the reference  921  in advance in a signal transmission procedure, by means of at least one of the described interference cancellation techniques, and may transmit the wireless access signal  910  and the wireless backhaul signal  920 . 
       FIG. 10A  and  FIG. 10B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a second communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. In  FIG. 10A  and  FIG. 10B , the base station  110  may be a donor base station, and the base station  130  may be a relay base station. 
     According to the second communication situation, the base station  110  receives a wireless access signal  1010 , which is an uplink signal, from the terminal  120  and transmits a wireless backhaul signal  1020 , which is a downlink signal, to the base station  130 , and the base station  130  transmits a wireless access signal  1030 , which is a downlink signal, to the terminal  140 . These signals may be concurrently transmitted or received via respective wireless channels. In particular, the base station  110  may transmit the wireless backhaul signal  1020  to the base station  130 , while receiving the wireless access signal  1010  from the terminal  120 . In this case, interference  1021  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1020  is an SI, and may be received together with the wireless access signal  1010  by the base station  110 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless access signal  1010 , the base station  110  should remove the interference  1021  from the received signals. The base station  130  may transmit the wireless access signal  1030  to the terminal  140 , while receiving the wireless backhaul signal  1020  from the base station  110 . In this case, interference  1032  occurring from the wireless access signal  1030  is an SI, and may be received together with the wireless backhaul signal  1020  by the base station  130 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless backhaul signal  1020 , the base station  130  should remove the interference  1032  from the received signals. 
     In general, in order to secure a UDG, the base station  110  determines TTA for the terminal  120  such that an uplink signal transmitted by the terminal  120  is received at a time point preceding by the UDG compared to a reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . In this case, the TTA for the terminal  120  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 6&gt; below.
 
TTA D1 =RTT D +UDG D   [Equation 6]
 
     TTA D1  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  120  transmits an uplink wireless access signal, RTT D  refers to a time taken for a signal to travel a round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the terminal  120 , and UDG D  refers to a minimum time required for the base station  110  to change configurations of base station elements for receiving the uplink wireless access signal to configurations for transmitting a downlink wireless access signal. 
     If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal according to TTA D1 , the base station  110  may receive the wireless access signal  1010  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . In other words, RTA for the terminal  110  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 7&gt; below.
 
RTA D1 =TTA D1 −RTT D =UDG D   [Equation 7]
 
     RTA D1  refers to a time offset at which the base station  110  receives the wireless access signal  1010 , TTA D1  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1010 , RTT D  refers to a time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the terminal  120 , and UDG D  refers to the minimum time required for the base station  110  to change configurations of base station elements for receiving the wireless access signal  1010  to configurations for transmitting a downlink wireless access signal. 
     If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1010  according to TTA D1 , a subframe  1040  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1010  received by the base station  110 . In the wireless access signal  1010 , uplink data for the base station  110  may be transmitted from the terminal  120  via symbol  2  to symbol  12  of the subframe  1040 . A subframe  1060  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1020 . In the wireless backhaul signal  1020 , downlink data for the base station  130  may be transmitted from the base station  110  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1060 . The base station  110  receives the wireless access signal  1010  at the time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point as shown in &lt;Equation 7&gt;, but transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1020  at the reference synchronization time point, and therefore the wireless access signal  1010  and the wireless backhaul signal  1020  are not time-synchronized. In other words, the subframe  1040  and the subframe  1060  are not time-synchronized with each other as illustrated in  FIG. 10B , and therefore the base station  110  may not efficiently remove the interference  1021  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1020 , and performance of signal reception may be degraded. 
     Therefore, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  110  determines TTA for the terminal  120  such that the wireless access signal  1010  transmitted by the terminal  120  is received at the transmission time point (i.e., the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 ) of the wireless backhaul signal  1020 . In this case, the TTA for the terminal  120  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 8&gt; below.
 
TTA D2 =RTT D   [Equation 8]
 
     TTA D2  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1010  in the second communication situation, and RTT D  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the terminal  120 . 
     If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal according to TTA D2 , the base station  110  may receive the wireless access signal  1010  at the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . In other words, the RTA of the wireless access signal  1010  for the base station  110  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 9&gt; below.
 
RTA D2 =TTA D2 −RTT D =0  [Equation 9]
 
     RTA D2  refers to a time offset at which the base station  110  receives the wireless access signal  1010  in the second communication situation, TTA D2  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1010  in the second communication situation, and RTT D  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the terminal  120 . 
     A subframe  1050  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1010  in a case where the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1010  according to TTA D2 . Referring to  FIG. 10B , the subframe  1050  and the subframe  1060  may be time-synchronized with each other. In other words, the interference  1021  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1020  and the wireless access signal  1010  may be time-synchronized with each other with respect to the base station  110 . Here, a value of RTA D2  is smaller than a value of UDG D , and therefore a protection section may be required for the base station  110  to secure UDG D . To this end, the terminal  120  may transmit symbol  2  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1050 , and may not transmit symbol  12 . The base station  110  may use time sections corresponding to symbol  1  and symbol  12  as protection sections. 
     In the embodiment described above, the terminal  120  did not transmit symbol  12  so as to allow the base station to secure UDG D , but this is exemplary. The terminal may not transmit a symbol other than symbol  12 . For example, in order to allow the base station to secure UDG D , the terminal  120  may transmit symbol  12 , but may not transmit symbol  13 . 
     If the base station  110  receives the interference  1021  having occurred from the wireless access signal  1010  transmitted according to TTA D2  of &lt;Equation 8&gt; and the wireless backhaul signal  1020  transmitted at the reference synchronization time point, and performs DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals, interference between adjacent symbols may not occur. In the second communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals by the base station  110  may be represented as the following &lt;Equation 10&gt;.
 
 R   2_110 [ n ]= Y   1010 [ n ]+ Y   1021 [ n ]+ N [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 10]
 
     R 2_110 [n] refers to received signals of the base station  110  in the second communication situation, Y 1010 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1010 , Y 1021 [n] refers to the interference  1021 , N[n] refers to noise, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless backhaul signal  1010  and wireless access signal  1020 , respectively, the base station  110  may estimate a channel value of the wireless access signal  1010  and a channel value of the interference  1021  on the basis of the received signals. The interference  1021  received by the base station  110  may be determined on the basis of the channel value of the interference  1021  and the wireless backhaul signal  1020  transmitted by the base station  110 , as shown in &lt;Equation 11&gt;.
 
 Y   1011 [ n ]= X   1020 [ n ]* H   1021 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 11]
 
     Y 1021 [n] refers to the interference  1021 , X 1020 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1020 , H 1021 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1021 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, according to &lt;Equation 12&gt;, the base station  110  may remove the interferences  1021  from the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless access signal  932 .
 
 R   1010 [ n ]= R   2_110 [ n ]− Y   1021 [ n ]= R   2_110 [ n ]−( X   1020 [ n ]* H   1021 [ n ]), n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 12]
 
     R 1010 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1010  from which interference has been removed, R 2_110 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  110  in the second communication situation, Y 1021 [n] refers to the interference  1021 , X 1020 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1020  transmitted by the base station  130 , H 1021 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1021 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     A subframe  1070  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless access signal  1030 . In the wireless access signal  1030 , downlink data for the terminal  140  may be transmitted from the base station  130  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1070 . The wireless backhaul signal  1020  and the wireless access signal  1030  are both downlink signals, and therefore the base station  130  receives the interference  1032 , which has occurred from the wireless backhaul signal  1020  and the wireless access signal  1030 , at the reference synchronization time point. That is, as illustrated in  FIG. 10B , the subframe  1060  and the subframe  1070  may be time-synchronized, and if the base station  130  performs DFT or FFT calculation of size N for each symbol in the received signals (including the wireless backhaul signal  1020  and interference  1032 ), interference between adjacent symbols may not occur. 
     In the second communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals of the base station  130  may be expressed as the following &lt;Equation 13&gt;.
 
 R   2_130 [ n ]= Y   1020 [ n ]+ Y   1032 [ n ]+ N [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 13]
 
     R 2_130 [n] refers to received signals of the base station  130  in the second communication situation, Y 1020 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1020 , Y 1032 [n] refers to the interference  1032 , N[n] refers to noise, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless backhaul signal  1020  and wireless access signal  1030 , respectively, the base station  130  may estimate a channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  1020  and a channel value of the interference  1032  on the basis of the received signals. The interference  1032  received by the base station  130  may be determined on the basis of the channel value of the interference  1032  and the wireless access signal  1030  transmitted by the base station  130 , as shown in &lt;Equation 14&gt;.
 
 Y   1032 [ n ]= X   1030 [ n ]* H   1032 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 14]
 
     Y 1032 [n] refers to the interference  1032 , X 1030 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1030 , H 1032 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1032 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, according to &lt;Equation 15&gt;, the base station  130  may remove the interference  1032  from the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless backhaul signal  1020 .
 
 R   1020 [ n ]= R   2_130 [ n ]− Y   1032 [ n ]= R   2_130 [ n ]=( X   1030 [ n ]* H   1032 [ n ]), n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 15]
 
     R 1020 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1020  from which interference has been removed, R 2_130 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  130  in the second communication situation, Y 1032 [n] refers to the interference  1032 , X 1030 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1030 , H 1032 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1032 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, other interferences  1012 ,  1013 ,  1023 , and  1031  may also occur, but it is assumed that the interferences may be easily removed according to a suitable interference cancellation technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). 
       FIG. 11A  and  FIG. 11B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a third communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. In  FIG. 11A  and  FIG. 11B , the base station  110  may be a donor base station, and the base station  130  may be a relay base station. 
     According to a third communication situation, the base station  110  receives the wireless access signal  1110 , which is an uplink signal, from the terminal  120 , and receives the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , which is an uplink signal, from the base station  130 , and the base station  130  receives the wireless access signal  1130 , which is an uplink signal, from the terminal  140 . These signals may be concurrently transmitted or received via respective wireless channels. In particular, the base station  110  may receive the wireless backhaul signal  1120  from the base station  130 , while receiving the wireless access signal  1110  from the terminal  120 . In this case, interference  1121  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1120  may influence reception of the wireless access signal  1110 , and interference  1112  occurring from the wireless access signal  1110  may influence reception of the wireless backhaul signal  1120 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless access signal  1110  and the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , the base station  110  should remove the interference  1112  and the interference  1121  from the received signals. The base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1130  from the terminal  140 , while transmitting the wireless backhaul signal  1120  to the base station  110 . In this case, interference  1123  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1120  is an SI, and may be received together with the wireless access signal  1130  by the base station  130 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless access signal  1130 , the base station  130  should remove the interference  1123  from the received signals. 
     In order to secure a UDG for the base station  110 , the terminal  120  may transmit the wireless access signal  1110  according to the TTA D1  of &lt;Equation 6&gt;. If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1110  according to the TTA D1  of &lt;Equation 6&gt;, a subframe  1140  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1110  received by the base station  110 . In the wireless access signal  1110 , uplink data for the base station  110  may be transmitted from the terminal  120  via symbol  2  to symbol  12  of the subframe  1140 . According to the subframe  1140 , the base station  110  may receive the wireless access signal  1110  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110  according to &lt;Equation 7&gt;. 
     For time-synchronization of the wireless backhaul signal  1120  and the wireless access signal  1130 , the base station  130  may transmit the wireless backhaul signal  1120  according to TTA determined by the following &lt;Equation 16&gt;.
 
TTA B1 =RTT B +UDG D   [Equation 16]
 
     TTA B1  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , RTT B  refers to a time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 , and UDG D  refers to the minimum time required for the base station  110  to change configurations of base station elements for receiving the uplink wireless access signal to configurations for transmitting a downlink wireless access signal. 
     If the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1020  according to TTA B1 , the base station  110  may receive the wireless backhaul signal  1120  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . In other words, the RTA of the wireless backhaul signal  1120  for the base station  110  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 17&gt; below.
 
RTA B1 =TTA B1 −RTT B =UDG D   [Equation 17]
 
     RTA B1  refers to a time offset at which the base station  110  receives the wireless backhaul signal  1120  in the third communication situation, TTA B1  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1120  in the third communication situation, RTT B  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 , and UDG D  refers to the minimum time required for the base station  110  to change configurations of base station elements for receiving the wireless access signal to configurations for transmitting a downlink wireless access signal. 
     A subframe  1150  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1120  in a case where the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1120  according to TTA B1 . In the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , uplink data for the base station  110  may be transmitted from the base station  130  via symbol  2  to symbol  12  of the subframe  1150 . 
     As described above, if the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1110  according to the TTA D1  of &lt;Equation 6&gt;, and the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1120  according to TTA B1  of &lt;Equation 16&gt;, the base station  110  may receive the wireless access signal  1110  and the wireless backhaul signal  1120  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . The interference  1112  having occurred from the wireless access signal  1110  and the interference  1121  having occurred from the wireless backhaul signal  1120  may also be received at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . Therefore, all the wireless access signal  1110 , the interference  1112 , the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , and the interference  1121  may be time-synchronized for the base station  110 , and the base station  110  may select a DFT section or an FFT section, in which no interference occurs between adjacent symbols, and may perform DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals (including the wireless access signal  1110 , the interference  1112 , the wireless backhaul signal  1120  and the interference  1121 ). 
     In the third communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals by the base station  110  may be represented as the following &lt;Equation 18&gt;. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     
                       
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     R 3_110 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  110  in the third communication situation, R 1110 [n] refers to a signal received in the base station  110  through a reception antenna for wireless access communication, R 1120 [n] refers to a signal received in the base station  110  through a reception antenna for wireless backhaul communication, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless backhaul signal  1010  and wireless access signal  1120 , respectively, the base station  110  may estimate a channel value of the wireless access signal  1110 , a channel value of the interference  1112 , a channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , and a channel value of the interference  1121  on the basis of the received signals. A channel matrix estimated by the base station  110  may be represented as shown in &lt;Equation 19&gt; below. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     
                       
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     H 3_110 [n] refers to the channel matrix estimated by the base station  110  in the third communication situation, H 1110 [n] refers to the channel value of the wireless access signal  1110 , H 1121 [n] refers to the channel value of the reference  1121 , H 1112 [n] refers to the channel value of the reference  1112 , H 1120 [n] refers to the channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, the base station  110  may remove the interference  1112  and the interference  1121  in the received signals by means of the estimated channel matrix, and may detect data of the wireless access signal  1110  and data of the wireless backhaul signal  1120 . In order to detect data of the wireless access signal  1110  and data of the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , a suitable multi-antenna detection technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ) may be used. 
     In general, in order to secure the UDG, the base station  130  determines TTA for the terminal  140  such that an uplink signal transmitted by the terminal  140  is received at a time point preceding, by the UDG, the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 . In this case, the TTA for the terminal  140  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 20&gt; below.
 
TTA R1 =RTT R +UDG R   [Equation 20]
 
     TTA R1  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  140  transmits an uplink wireless access signal, RTT R  refers to a time taken for a signal to travel a round-trip distance between the base station  130  and the terminal  140 , and UDG R  refers to a minimum time required for the base station  130  to change configurations of base station elements for receiving the uplink wireless access signal to configurations for transmitting a downlink wireless access signal. 
     If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1130  according to TTA R1 , the base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1130  at a time point preceding, by UDG R , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 . In other words, RTA of the terminal  110  for the wireless access signal  130  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 21&gt; below.
 
RTA R1 =TTA R1 −RTT R =UDG R   [Equation 21]
 
     RTA R1  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  receives the wireless access signal  1130 , TTA R1  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1130 , RTT R  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  130  and the terminal  140 , and UDG R  refers to the minimum time required for the base station  130  to change configurations of base station elements for receiving the wireless access signal  1130  to configurations for transmitting a downlink wireless access signal. 
     If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1130  according to TTA R1 , a subframe  1160  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1130  received by the base station  130 . In the wireless access signal  1130 , uplink data for the base station  130  may be transmitted from the terminal  140  via symbol  2  to symbol  12  of the subframe  1160 . If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1130  according to TTA R1 , the base station  130  receives the wireless access signal  1130  at a time point preceding, by UDG R , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 . However, the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1130  according to TTA B1  in the third communication situation, the wireless backhaul signal  120  and the wireless access signal  1130  are not time-synchronized. In other words, as illustrated in  FIG. 11B , the subframe  1150  and the subframe  1160  are not time-synchronized with each other. If UDG R  and UDG D  are the same, a time-synchronization error of TTA B1 −TTA R1 =RTT B  may exist between the wireless backhaul signal  1120  and the wireless access signal  1130 , and a time-synchronization error corresponding to RTT B  may be much larger than a CP length of the symbol. In this case, when the base station  130  performs the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals (the interference  1123  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1120  and the wireless access signal  1130 ), interference between adjacent symbols may occur, and this may prevent the base station  130  from efficiently removing the interference  1123  and may decrease performance of signal reception. 
     Therefore, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  130  determines TTA for the terminal  140  such that the wireless access signal  1130  transmitted by the terminal  140  is received at the transmission time point (i.e., a time point preceding, by TTA B1 , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 ) of the wireless backhaul signal  1120 . In this case, TTA of the wireless access signal  1130  for the base station  140  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 22&gt; below.
 
TTA R3 =RTT R +TTA B1   [Equation 22]
 
     TTA R3  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1130  in the third communication situation, RTT R  refers to the time required for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  130  and the terminal  140 , and TTA B1  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  120 . 
     If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1130  according to TTA R3 , the base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1130  at a time point preceding, by TTA B1 , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 . In other words, RTA of the wireless access signal  1130  for the base station  130  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 23&gt; below.
 
RTA R3 =TTA R3 −RTT R =TTA B1   [Equation 23]
 
     RTA R3  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  receives the wireless access signal  1130  in the third communication situation, TTA R3  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1130  in the third communication situation, RTT R  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  130  and the terminal  140 , and TTA B1  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1120 . 
     A subframe  1170  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1130  in a case where the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1130  according to TTA R3 . Referring to  FIG. 11B , the subframe  1150  and the subframe  1170  are time-synchronized with each other. In other words, the interference  1123  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1120  and the wireless access signal  1130  may be time-synchronized with each other with respect to the base station  130 . The base station  130  may secure a UDG corresponding to TTA B1 . 
     If, in the third communication situation, the base station  130  receives the interference  1123  having occurred from the wireless backhaul signal  1120  transmitted according to TTA B1  of &lt;Equation 16&gt; and the wireless access signal  1130  transmitted according to TTA R3  of &lt;Equation 22&gt;, and performs DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals, interference between adjacent symbols may not occur. In the third communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals by the base station  130  may be represented as the following &lt;Equation 24&gt;.
 
 R   3_130 [ n ]= Y   1123 [ n ]+ Y   1130 [ n ]+ N [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 24]
 
     R 3_130 [n] refers to received signals of the base station  130  in the third communication situation, Y 1123 [n] refers to the interference  1123 , Y 1130 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1130 , N[n] refers to noise, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless backhaul signal  1120  and wireless access signal  1130 , respectively, the base station  130  may estimate a channel value of the wireless access signal  1130  and a channel value of the interference  1123  on the basis of the received signals. The interference  1123  received by the base station  130  may be determined on the basis of the channel value of the interference  1123  and the wireless backhaul signal  1120  transmitted by the base station  130 , as shown in &lt;Equation 25&gt;.
 
 Y   1123 [ n ]= X   1120 [ n ]* H   1123 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 25]
 
     Y 1123 [n] refers to the interference  1123 , X 1120 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1120 , H 1123 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1123 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, according to &lt;Equation 26&gt;, the base station  130  may remove the interferences  1123  from the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless access signal  1130 .
 
 R   1130 [ n ]= R   3_130 [ n ]− Y   1123 [ n ]= R   3_130 [ n ]−( X   1120 [ n ]* H   1123 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 26]
 
     R 1130 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1130  from which interference has been removed, R 3_130 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  110  in the third communication situation, Y 1123 [n] refers to the interference  1123 , X 1120 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1130  transmitted by the base station  130 , H 1123 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1123 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, other interferences  1113 ,  1131 , and  1132  may also occur, but it is assumed that the interferences may be easily removed according to a suitable interference cancellation technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). 
       FIG. 12A  and  FIG. 12B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a fourth communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. In  FIG. 12A  and  FIG. 12B , the base station  110  may be a donor base station, and the base station  130  may be a relay base station. 
     According to the fourth communication situation, the base station  110  transmits a wireless access signal  1210 , which is a downlink signal, to the terminal  120  and receives a wireless backhaul signal  1220 , which is an uplink signal, from the base station  130 , and the base station  130  receives a wireless access signal  1230 , which is an uplink signal, from the terminal  140 . These signals may be concurrently transmitted or received via respective wireless channels. In particular, the base station  110  may receive the wireless backhaul signal  1220  from the base station  130 , while transmitting the wireless access signal  1210  to the terminal  120 . In this case, interference  1212  occurring from the wireless access signal  1210  is an SI, and may be received together with the wireless backhaul signal  1220  by the base station  110 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless backhaul signal  1220 , the base station  110  should remove the interference  1212  from the received signals. The base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1230  from the terminal  140 , while transmitting the wireless backhaul signal  1220  to the base station  110 . In this case, interference  1223  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1220  is an SI, and may be received together with the wireless access signal  1230  by the base station  130 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless access signal  1230 , the base station  130  should remove the interference  1223  from the received signals. 
     A subframe  1240  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless access signal  1210 . In the wireless access signal  1210 , downlink data for the terminal  120  may be transmitted from the base station  110  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1240 . A subframe  1250  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1220  in a case where the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1220  according to TTA B1  of &lt;Equation 16&gt;. In the wireless backhaul signal  1220 , uplink data for the base station  110  may be transmitted from the base station  130  via symbol  2  to symbol  12  of the subframe  1250 . If the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1220  according to TTA B1  of &lt;Equation 16&gt;, the base station  110  may receive the wireless backhaul signal  1220  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110  according to &lt;Equation 17&gt;. However, the base station  110  transmits the wireless access signal  1210  at the reference synchronization time point, and therefore the wireless access signal  1210  and the wireless backhaul signal  1220  may not be time-synchronized. In other words, the subframe  1240  and the subframe  1250  are not time-synchronized with each other as illustrated in  FIG. 12B , and therefore the base station  110  may not efficiently remove the interference  1212  occurring from the wireless access signal  1210 , and performance of signal reception may be degraded. 
     Therefore, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  110  determines TTA for the base station  130  such that the wireless backhaul signal  1220  transmitted by the base station  130  is received at the transmission time point (i.e., the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 ) of the wireless access signal  1210 . In this case, the TTA for the base station  130  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 27&gt; below.
 
TTA B2 =RTT B   [Equation 27]
 
     TTA B2  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1220  in the fourth communication situation, and RTT B  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 . 
     If the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1220  according to TTA B2 , the base station  110  may receive the wireless backhaul signal  1220  at the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . In other words, the RTA of the wireless backhaul signal  1220  for the base station  110  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 28&gt; below.
 
RTA B2 =TTA B2 −RTT B =0  [Equation 28]
 
     RTA B2  refers to a time offset at which the base station  110  receives the wireless backhaul signal  1220  in the fourth communication situation, TTA B2  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1220  in the fourth communication situation, and RTT B  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 . 
     If the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1220  according to TTA B2 , a subframe  1260  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1220  received by the base station  110 . Referring to  FIG. 12B , the subframe  1240  and the subframe  1260  may be time-synchronized with each other. In other words, the interference  1212  occurring from the wireless access signal  1210  and the wireless backhaul signal  1220  may be time-synchronized with each other for the base station  110 . Here, symbol  13  of the subframe  1240  is received by the base station  110  from the terminal  120  according to RTA D1  of &lt;Equation 7&gt;, and may thus collide with symbol  12  of the subframe  1260 . In order to avoid collision, the base station  130  may not transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1260 . 
     In the embodiment described above, the base station  130  did not transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1260  to avoid the collision with symbol  13  of the subframe  1240 , but this is exemplary, and the base station  130  may not transmit a symbol other than symbol  12 . For example, in order to avoid the collision with symbol  13  of the subframe  1240 , the base station  130  may transmit symbol  12 , but may not transmit symbol  13 . 
     If the base station  110  receives the interference  1212  having occurred from the wireless access signal  1210  transmitted at the reference synchronization time point and the wireless backhaul signal  1220  transmitted according to TTA B2  of &lt;Equation 27&gt;, and performs DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals, interference between adjacent symbols may not occur. In the fourth communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals by the base station  110  may be represented as the following &lt;Equation 29&gt;.
 
 R   4_110 [ n ]= Y   1212 [ n ]+ Y   1220 [ n ]+ N [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 29]
 
     R 4_110 [n] refers to received signals of the base station  110  in the fourth communication situation, Y 1212 [n] refers to the interference  1212 , Y 1220 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1220 , N[n] refers to noise, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless access signal  1210  and wireless backhaul signal  1220 , respectively, the base station  110  may estimate a channel value of the interference  1212  and a channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  1220  on the basis of the received signals. The interference  1212  received by the base station  110  may be determined on the basis of the channel value of the interference  1212  and the wireless access signal  1210  transmitted by the base station  110 , as shown in &lt;Equation 30&gt;.
 
 Y   1212 [ n ]= X   1210 [ n ]* H   1212 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 30]
 
     Y 1212 [n] refers to the interference  1212 , X 1210 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1210 , H 1212 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1212 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, according to &lt;Equation 31&gt;, the base station  110  may remove the interference  1212  from the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless backhaul signal  1220 .
 
 R   1220 [ n ]= R   4_110 [ n ]− Y   1212 [ n ]= R   4_110 [ n ]−( X   1210 [ n ]* H   1212 [ n ]), n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 31]
 
     R 1220 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1220  from which interference has been removed, R 4_110 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  110  in the fourth communication situation, Y 1212 [n] refers to the interference  1212 , X 1210 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1210  transmitted by the base station  110 , H 1212 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1212 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     A subframe  1270  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1220  transmitted by the base station  130  according to TTA B2 . In order to efficiently remove interference  1223 , the wireless backhaul signal  1220  and the wireless access signal  1230  are required to time-synchronized for the base station  130 . To this end, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  130  determines TTA for the terminal  140  such that the wireless access signal  1230  transmitted by the terminal  140  is received at the transmission time point (i.e., a time point preceding, by TTA B2 , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 ) of the wireless backhaul signal  1220 . In this case, TTA of the wireless access signal  1230  for the base station  140  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 32&gt; below.
 
TTA R4 =RTT R +TTA B2 =RTT R +RTT B   [Equation 32]
 
     TTA R4  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1230  in the fourth communication situation, RTT R  refers to the time required for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  130  and the terminal  140 , TTA B2  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  120  in the fourth communication situation, and RTT B  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 . 
     If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1230  according to TTA R4 , the base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1230  at a time point preceding, by TTA B2 , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 . In other words, RTA of the wireless access signal  1230  for the base station  130  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 33&gt; below.
 
RTA R4 =TTA R4 −RTT R =TTA B2 =RTT B   [Equation 33]
 
     RTA R4  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  receives the wireless access signal  1230  in the fourth communication situation, TTA R4  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1230  in the fourth communication situation, RTT R  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  130  and the terminal  140 , TTA B2  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1220  in the fourth communication situation, and RTT B  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 . 
     If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1230  according to TTA R4 , a subframe  1280  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1230  received by the base station  130 . Referring to  FIG. 12B , the subframe  1270  and the subframe  1280  are time-synchronized with each other. In other words, the interference  1223  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1220  and the wireless access signal  1230  may be time-synchronized with each other with respect to the base station  130 . 
     If, in the fourth communication situation, the base station  140  receives the interference  1223  having occurred from the wireless backhaul signal  1220  transmitted according to TTA B2  of &lt;Equation 27&gt; and the wireless access signal  1230  transmitted according to TTA R4  of &lt;Equation 32&gt;, and performs DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals, interference between adjacent symbols may not occur. In the fourth communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals of the base station  140  may be represented as the following &lt;Equation 34&gt;.
 
 R   4_130 [ n ]= Y   1223 [ n ]+ Y   1230 [ n ]+ N [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 34]
 
     R 4_130 [n] refers to received signals of the base station  130  in the fourth communication situation, Y 1223 [n] refers to the interference  1223 , Y 1230 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1230 , N[n] refers to noise, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless backhaul signal  1220  and wireless access signal  1230 , respectively, the base station  130  may estimate a channel value of the wireless access signal  1230  and a channel value of the interference  1223  on the basis of the received signals. The interference  1223  received by the base station  130  may be determined on the basis of the channel value of the interference  1223  and the wireless backhaul signal  1220  transmitted by the base station  130 , as shown in &lt;Equation 35&gt;.
 
 Y   1223 [ n ]= X   1220 [ n ]* H   1223 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 35]
 
     Y 1223 [n] refers to the interference  1223 , X 1220 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1220 , H 1223 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1223 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, according to &lt;Equation 36&gt;, the base station  130  may remove the interferences  1223  from the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless access signal  1230 .
 
 R   1230 [ n ]= R   4_130 [ n ]− Y   1223 [ n ]= R   3_130 [ n ]−( X   1220 [ n ]* H   1223 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 36]
 
     R 1130 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1230  from which interference has been removed, R 3_130 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  130  in the fourth communication situation, Y 1223 [n] refers to the interference  1223 , X 1220 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1230  transmitted by the base station  130 , H 1223 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1223 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, other interferences  1213 ,  1221 ,  1231 , and  1232  may also occur, but it is assumed that the interferences may be easily removed according to a suitable interference cancellation technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). 
       FIG. 13A  and  FIG. 13B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a fifth communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. In  FIG. 13A  and  FIG. 13B , the base station  110  may be a donor base station, and the base station  130  may be a relay base station. 
     According to the fifth communication situation, the base station  110  transmits a wireless access signal  1310 , which is a downlink signal, to the terminal  120  and transmits a wireless backhaul signal  1320 , which is a downlink signal, to the base station  130 , and the base station  130  receives a wireless access signal  1330 , which is an uplink signal, from the terminal  140 . These signals may be concurrently transmitted or received via respective wireless channels. In particular, the base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1330  from the terminal  140 , while receiving the wireless backhaul signal  1320  from the base station  110 . In this case, interference  1323  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1320  may influence reception of the wireless access signal  1330 , and interference  1332  occurring from the wireless access signal  1330  may influence reception of the wireless backhaul signal  1320 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless backhaul signal  1320  and the wireless access signal  1330 , the base station  130  should remove the interference  1323  and the interference  1332  from the received signals. 
     A subframe  1340  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless access signal  1310 . In the wireless access signal  1310 , downlink data for the terminal  120  may be transmitted from the base station  110  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1340 . A subframe  1350  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1320 . In the wireless backhaul signal  1320 , downlink data for the base station  130  may be transmitted from the base station  110  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1350 . The wireless access signal  1310  and the wireless backhaul signal  1320  are both downlink signals, and therefore the base station  110  transmits the wireless access signal  1310  and the wireless backhaul signal  1320  at a reference synchronization time point. That is, as illustrated in  FIG. 13B , the subframe  1340  and the subframe  1350  may be time-synchronized with each other. 
     In order to secure a UDG for the base station  130 , the terminal  140  may transmit the wireless access signal  1330  to the base station  130  according to the TTA R1  of &lt;Equation 20&gt;. If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1330  according to the TTA R1  of &lt;Equation 20&gt;, a subframe  1360  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1330  received by the base station  130 . According to the subframe  1360 , the base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1330  at a time point preceding, by UDG R , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130  according to &lt;Equation 21&gt;. However, the base station  130  receives the wireless backhaul signal  1320  at the reference synchronization time point, and therefore the wireless backhaul signal  1320  and the wireless access signal  1330  may not be time-synchronized. In other words, since the subframe  1350  and the subframe  1360  are not time-synchronized with each other as illustrated in  FIG. 13B , when the base station  130  performs the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals, interference between adjacent symbols may occur, and therefore performance of signal reception may be degraded. Therefore, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  130  determines TTA for the wireless access signal  1330  with respect to the terminal  140  such that the wireless access signal  1330  transmitted by the terminal  140  is received at a reception time point (i.e., the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 ) of the wireless backhaul signal  1320 . In this case, TTA of the wireless access signal  1330  for the terminal  140  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 37&gt; below.
 
TTA R2 =RTT R   [Equation 37]
 
     TTA R2  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1330  in the fifth communication situation, and RTT R  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  130  and the terminal  140 . 
     If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal according to TTA R2 , the base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1330  at the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 . In other words, RTA of the wireless access signal  1330  for the base station  130  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 38&gt; below.
 
RTA R2 =TTA R2 −RTT R =0  [Equation 38]
 
     RTA R2  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  receives the wireless access signal  1330  in the fifth communication situation, TTA R2  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1330  in the fifth communication situation, and RTT R  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  130  and the terminal  140 . 
     If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1330  according to TTA R2 , a subframe  1370  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1330  received by the base station  130 . Referring to  FIG. 13B , the subframe  1350  and the subframe  1370  may be time-synchronized with each other. In other words, all the wireless backhaul signal  1320 , the interference  1323  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1320 , the wireless access signal  1330 , and the interference  1332  occurring the wireless access signal  1330  may be time-synchronized with each other for the base station  130 , and the base station  130  may select a DFT or FFT section, in which interference between adjacent symbols is not caused, so as to perform DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals. In order to secure the UDG for the base station  130 , symbol  13  corresponding to PUCCH should be received by the base station  130  at a time point preceding, by UDG R , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130  in the subframe  1370 , and therefore symbol  13  may collide with symbol  12 . In order to avoid the collision, a time section corresponding to symbol  12  of the subframe  1370  may be designated as a protection section, and the terminal  140  may not transmit symbol  12 . In other words, the terminal  140  may transmit only symbol  2  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1370 . 
     In the embodiment described above, the base station  130  did not transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1370  to avoid the collision with symbol  13  of the subframe  1370 , but this is exemplary, and the base station  130  may not transmit a symbol other than symbol  12 . For example, the base station  130  may transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1370 , but may not transmit symbol  13 . 
     In the fifth communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals by the base station  130  may be represented as the following &lt;Equation 39&gt;. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     
                       
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     R 5_130 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  130  in the fifth communication situation, R 1_320 [n] refers to a signal received in the base station  130  through a reception antenna for wireless backhaul communication, R 1330 [n] refers to a signal received in the base station  130  through a reception antenna for wireless access communication, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless backhaul signal  1320  and wireless access signal  1330 , respectively, the base station  130  may estimate a channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  1320 , a channel value of the interference  1323 , a channel value of the wireless access signal  1330 , and a channel value of the interference  1332  on the basis of the received signals. A channel matrix estimated by the base station  130  may be represented as shown in &lt;Equation 40&gt; below. 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     
                       
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     H 5_130 [n] refers to the channel matrix estimated by the base station  130  in the fifth communication situation, H 1320 [n] refers to the channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  1320 , H 1323 [n] refers to the channel value of the reference  1323 , H 1332 [n] refers to the channel value of the reference  1332 , H 1330 [n] refers to the channel value of the wireless access signal  1330 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, the base station  110  may remove the interference  1332  and the interference  1323  in the received signals by means of the estimated channel matrix, and may detect data of the wireless access signal  1330  and data of the wireless backhaul signal  1320 . In order to detect data of the wireless access signal  1330  and data of the wireless backhaul signal  1320 , a suitable multi-antenna detection technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ) may be used. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, other interferences  1312 ,  1321 ,  1313 , and  1331  may also occur, but it is assumed that the interferences may be easily removed according to a suitable interference cancellation technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). For example, interference  1312  and the interference  1321  may occur from the wireless backhaul signal  1320  and the wireless access signal  1310  transmitted by the base station  110 , but the base station  110  may remove the reference  1312  and the reference  1321  in advance in a signal transmission procedure, by means of at least one of the described interference cancellation techniques, and may transmit the wireless access signal  1310  and the wireless backhaul signal  1320 . 
       FIG. 14A  and  FIG. 14B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a sixth communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. In  FIG. 14A  and  FIG. 14B , the base station  110  may be a donor base station, and the base station  130  may be a relay base station. 
     According to a sixth communication situation, the base station  110  receives a wireless access signal  1410  from the terminal  120 , and transmits a wireless backhaul signal  1420  from the base station  130 , and the base station  130  receives a wireless access signal  1430  from the terminal  140 . These signals may be concurrently transmitted or received via respective wireless channels. In particular, the base station  110  may transmit the wireless backhaul signal  1420  to the base station  130 , while receiving the wireless access signal  1410  from the terminal  120 . In this case, interference  1421  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1420  is an SI, and may be received together with the wireless access signal  1410  by the base station  110 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless access signal  1410 , the base station  110  should remove the interference  1421  from the received signals. Further, the base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1430  from the terminal  140 , while receiving the wireless backhaul signal  1420  from the base station  110 . In this case, interference  1423  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1420  may influence reception of the wireless access signal  1430 , and interference  1432  occurring from the wireless access signal  1430  may influence reception of the wireless backhaul signal  1420 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless backhaul signal  1420  and the wireless access signal  1430 , the base station  130  should remove the interference  1423  and the interference  1432  from the received signals. 
     In order to secure a UDG for the base station  110 , the terminal  120  may transmit the wireless access signal  1410  according to the TTA D1  of &lt;Equation 6&gt;. If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1410  according to the TTA D1  of &lt;Equation 6&gt;, a subframe  1440  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1410  received by the base station  110 . In the wireless access signal  1410 , uplink data for the base station  110  may be transmitted from the terminal  120  via symbol  2  to symbol  12  of the subframe  1440 . According to the subframe  1440 , the base station  110  may receive the wireless access signal  1410  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110  according to &lt;Equation 7&gt;. A subframe  1460  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1420 . In the wireless backhaul signal  1420 , downlink data for the base station  130  may be transmitted from the base station  110  via symbol  1  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1460 . 
     The base station  110  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1420  to base station  130  at the reference syn time point, but receives the wireless access signal  1410  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 , and therefore the wireless access signal  1410  and the wireless backhaul signal  1420  are not time-synchronized. In other words, the subframe  1440  and the subframe  1460  are not time-synchronized with each other as illustrated in  FIG. 14B , and therefore the base station  110  may not efficiently remove the interference  1421  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1420 , and performance of signal reception may be degraded. 
     Therefore, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  110  determines TTA for the terminal  120  such that the wireless access signal  1410  transmitted by the terminal  120  is received at the transmission time point (i.e., the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 ) of the wireless backhaul signal  1420 . In this case, TTA of the wireless access signal  1410  for the terminal  110  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 8&gt; below. If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1410  according to TTA D2 , the base station  110  may receive the wireless access signal  1410  at the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110  as shown in &lt;Equation 9&gt;. 
     If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1410  according to TTA D2 , a subframe  1450  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1410  received by the base station  110 . Referring to  FIG. 14B , the subframe  1450  and the subframe  1460  may be time-synchronized with each other. In other words, the interference  1421  occurring from the wireless access signal  1410  and the wireless backhaul signal  1420  may be time-synchronized with each other for the base station  110 . Here, symbol  13  of the subframe  1450  should be received by the base station  110  from the terminal  120  according to RTA D1  of &lt;Equation 7&gt;, and may thus collide with symbol  12  of the subframe  1450 . In order to avoid the collision, the terminal  120  may transmit only symbol  2  to symbol  11  of the subframe  1450 , and may not transmit symbol  12 . 
     In the embodiment described above, the terminal  120  did not transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1250  to avoid the collision with symbol  13  of the subframe  1450 , but this is exemplary, and the terminal  120  may not transmit a symbol other than symbol  12 . For example, the terminal  120  may transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1450 , but may not transmit symbol  13 . 
     If the base station  110  receives the interference  1421  having occurred from the wireless backhaul signal  1420  transmitted at the reference synchronization time point and the wireless access signal  1410  transmitted according to TTA D2  of &lt;Equation 8&gt;, and performs DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals, interference between adjacent symbols may not occur. In the sixth communication situation, a result of the DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals by the base station  110  may be represented as the following &lt;Equation 41&gt;.
 
 R   6_110 [ n ]= Y   1410 [ n ]+ Y   1421 [ n ]+ N [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 41]
 
     R 6_110 [n] refers to received signals of the base station  110  in the sixth communication situation, Y 1410 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1410 , Y 1421 [n] refers to the interference  1421 , N[n] refers to noise, in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     If the symbol  610  and the symbol  620  are transmitted at symbol locations of the same number (e.g., symbol number  4 ) in the time-synchronized wireless access signal  1410  and wireless backhaul signal  1420 , respectively, the base station  110  may estimate a channel value of the interference  1421  and a channel value of the wireless access signal  1410  on the basis of the received signals. The interference  1421  received by the base station  110  may be determined on the basis of the channel value of the interference  1421  and the wireless backhaul signal  1420  transmitted by the base station  110 , as shown in &lt;Equation 42&gt;.
 
 Y   1421 [ n ]= X   1420 [ n ]* H   1421 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 42]
 
     Y 1421 [n] refers to the interference  1421 , X 1420 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1420 , H 1421 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1421 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     Then, according to &lt;Equation 43&gt;, the base station  110  may remove the interferences  1421  from the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless access signal  1410 .
 
 R   1410 [ n ]= R   6_110 [ n ]− Y   1421 [ n ]= R   6_110 [ n ]−( X   1420 [ n ]* H   1421 [ n ], n= 0,1, . . . , M− 1  [Equation 43]
 
     R 1410 [n] refers to the wireless access signal  1410  from which interference has been removed, R 6_110 [n] refers to the received signals of the base station  110  in the sixth communication situation, Y 1421 [n] refers to the interference  1421 , X 1420 [n] refers to the wireless backhaul signal  1420  transmitted by the base station  110 , H 1421 [n] refers to the channel value of the interference  1421 , in which n is a sub-carrier index, and M refers to a total number of sub-carriers. 
     The base station  130  receives the wireless backhaul signal  1420  from the base station  110  at the reference synchronization time point. Therefore, the base station  130  may determine, as TTA R2 , TTA for the wireless access signal  1430  for the terminal  140  such that the wireless access signal  1430  transmitted by the terminal  140  is received at a reception time point (i.e., the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 ) of the wireless backhaul signal  1420 , as shown in &lt;Equation 37&gt;. If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal according to TTA R2 , the base station  130  may receive the wireless access signal  1430  at the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 , as shown in &lt;Equation 38&gt;. 
     If the terminal  140  transmits the wireless access signal  1430  according to TTA R2 , a subframe  1470  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1430  received by the base station  130 . Referring to  FIG. 13B , the subframe  1460  and the subframe  1470  are time-synchronized with each other. In other words, all the wireless backhaul signal  1420 , the interference  1423  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1420 , the wireless access signal  1430 , and the interference  1432  occurring from the wireless access signal  1430  may be time-synchronized with each other for the base station  130 , and the base station  130  may select a DFT or FFT section, in which interference between adjacent symbols is not caused, so as to perform DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals. Here, in order to secure the UDG for the base station, in the subframe  1470 , symbol  13  corresponding to PUCCH should be received by the base station  130  according to RTA R1  of &lt;Equation 21&gt;, and may thus collide with symbol  12  of the subframe  1470 . In order to avoid the collision, a time section corresponding to symbol  12  of the subframe  1470  may be designated as a protection section, and the terminal  140  may not transmit symbol  12 . In other words, the terminal  140  may transmit only symbol  2  to symbol  11 . 
     In the embodiment described above, the terminal  140  did not transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1470  to avoid the collision with symbol  13  of the subframe  1470 , but this is exemplary, and the terminal  140  may not transmit a symbol other than symbol  12 . For example, the terminal  140  may transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1470 , but may not transmit symbol  13 . 
     In the sixth communication situation, the base station  130  may perform DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals, may determine a channel matrix by estimating a channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  1420 , a channel value of the interference  1423 , a channel value of the wireless access signal  1430 , and a channel value of the interface  1432  on the basis of the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless access signal  1430  and data of the wireless backhaul signal  1420  by using a result of the DFT and FFT calculation and the channel matrix. The result of the DFT and FFT calculation for the received signals by the base station  130  may be expressed similarly to &lt;Equation 39&gt;, and the channel matrix may be expressed similarly to &lt;Equation 40&gt;. In a procedure of detecting the data of the wireless access signal  1430  and the data of the wireless backhaul signal  1420 , the base station  130  may remove the interference  1423  and the interference  1432  from the received signals by using a suitable multi-antenna detection technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, other interferences  1412 ,  1413 , and  1431  may also occur, but it is assumed that the interferences may be easily removed according to a suitable interference cancellation technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). 
       FIG. 15A  and  FIG. 15B  are diagrams illustrating principles of interference estimation and determination of a transmission time point in a seventh communication situation of the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. In  FIG. 15A  and  FIG. 15B , the base station  110  may be a donor base station, and the base station  130  may be a relay base station. 
     According to a seventh communication situation, the base station  110  receives a wireless access signal  1510  from the terminal  120 , and receives a wireless backhaul signal  1520  from the base station  130 , and the base station  130  transmits a wireless access signal  1530  to the terminal  140 . These signals may be concurrently transmitted or received via respective wireless channels. In particular, the base station  130  may transmit the wireless access signal  1530  to the terminal  140 , while transmitting the wireless backhaul signal  1520  from the base station  110 . In this case, interference  1523  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1520  may influence transmission of the wireless access signal  1530 , and interference  1532  occurring from the wireless access signal  1530  may influence transmission of the wireless backhaul signal  1520 . Therefore, the base station  130  may be required to remove the interference  1523  and the interference of  1532  in advance, and transmit the wireless backhaul signal  1520  and the wireless access signal  1530 . Further, the base station  110  may receive the wireless access signal  1510  from the terminal  120 , while receiving the wireless backhaul signal  1520  from the base station  130 . In this case, interference  1521  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1520  may influence reception of the wireless access signal  1510 , and interference  1512  occurring from the wireless access signal  1510  may influence reception of the wireless backhaul signal  1520 . Therefore, in order to identify the wireless backhaul signal  1520  and the wireless access signal  1510 , the base station  110  should remove the interference  1521  and the interference  1512  from the received signals. 
     In order to secure the UDG for the base station  110 , the base station  130  may transmit the wireless access backhaul signal  1520  according to the TTA B1  of &lt;Equation 16&gt;. A subframe  1550  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1520  transmitted by the base station  130  according to TTA B1  of &lt;Equation 16&gt;. However, the base station  130  may transmit the wireless access signal  1530  at the reference synchronization time point. A subframe  1560  indicates a downlink subframe for the wireless access signal  1530 . As illustrated in  FIG. 15B , the subframe  1550  and the subframe  1560  may not be time-synchronized with each other. In other words, the wireless backhaul signal  1520  and the wireless access signal  1530  are not time-synchronized, and therefore the base station  130  may not efficiently remove the interface  1523  and the interference  1532 . 
     Therefore, the base station  130  according to various embodiments of the disclosure transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1520  at the transmission time point (i.e., the reference synchronization time point of the base station  130 ) of the wireless access signal  1530 . In this case, TTA of the wireless backhaul signal  1520  for the base station  130  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 44&gt; below.
 
TTA B3 =0  [Equation 44]
 
     TTA B3  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1520  in the seventh communication situation. 
     If the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1520  according to TTA B3 , RTA of the wireless backhaul signal  1520  for the base station  110  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 45&gt;.
 
RTA B3 =TTA B3 −RTT B =−RTT B   [Equation 45]
 
     RTA B3  refers to a time offset at which the base station  110  receives the wireless backhaul signal  1520  in the seventh communication situation, TTA B3  refers to a time offset at which the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1520  in the seventh communication situation, and RTT B  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 . According to &lt;Equation 45&gt;, the base station  110  receives the wireless backhaul signal  1520  in the seventh communication situation at a time point delayed by RTT B  from the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . 
     A subframe  1570  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1520  transmitted by the base station  130  according to TTA B3 . Referring to  FIG. 15B , the subframe  1560  and the subframe  1570  may be time-synchronized with each other. In other words, the wireless backhaul signal  1520  and the wireless access signal  1530  may be time-synchronized with each other, and the interference  1523  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1520  and the interference  1532  occurring from the wireless access signal  1530  may also be time-synchronized. As a result, the base station  130  may remove the interference  1523  and the interference  1532  in advance and may transmit the wireless backhaul signal  1520  and the wireless access signal  1530  in a signal transmission procedure by using a suitable interference cancellation technique (e.g., MSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). 
     In order to secure the UDG for the base station  110 , the terminal  120  may transmit the wireless access signal  1510  according to the TTA D1  of &lt;Equation 6&gt;. If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1510  according to TTA D1 , a subframe  1540  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1510  received by the base station  110 . According to the subframe  1540 , the base station  110  receives the wireless access signal  1510  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110  according to &lt;Equation 7&gt;. However, as described above, in the seventh communication situation, the base station  110  receives the wireless backhaul signal  1520  at a time point delayed by RTT B  from the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . If the base station  130  transmits the wireless backhaul signal  1520  according to the TTA B3  of &lt;Equation 44&gt;, a subframe  1580  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless backhaul signal  1520  received by the base station  110 . According to  FIG. 15B , the subframe  1540  and the subframe  1580  may not be time-synchronized with each other. In other words, the wireless backhaul signal  1520  and the wireless access signal  1510  are not time-synchronized for the base station  110 , and therefore the base station  110  may not efficiently remove the interface  1512  and the interference  1521 , and performance of signal reception may be degraded. 
     Therefore, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station  110  determines TTA of the wireless access signal  1510  for the terminal  120  such that the wireless access signal  1510  transmitted by the terminal  120  is received at a reception time point (i.e., a time point delayed by RTT B  from the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 ) of the wireless backhaul signal  1520 . In this case, TTA of the wireless access signal  1510  for the terminal  120  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 46&gt; below.
 
TTA D3 =RTT D −RTT B   [Equation 46]
 
     TTA D3  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1510  in the seventh communication situation, RTT D  refers to the time required for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the terminal  120 , and RTT B  refers to the time required for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 . 
     If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1510  according to TTA D3 , the base station  110  may receive the wireless access signal  1510  at a time point delayed by RTT B  from the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . In other words, RTA of the wireless access signal  1510  for the base station  110  may be determined as shown in &lt;Equation 47&gt; below.
 
RTA D3 =TTA D3 −RTT D =−RTT B   [Equation 47]
 
     RTA D3  refers to a time offset at which the base station  110  receives the wireless access signal  1510  in the seventh communication situation, TTA D3  refers to a time offset at which the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1510  in the seventh communication situation, RTT D  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the terminal  120 , and RTT B  refers to the time taken for a signal to travel the round-trip distance between the base station  110  and the base station  130 . 
     If the terminal  120  transmits the wireless access signal  1510  according to the TTA D3  of &lt;Equation 46&gt;, a subframe  1590  indicates an uplink subframe for the wireless access signal  1510  received by the base station  110 . Referring to  FIG. 15B , the subframe  1580  and the subframe  1590  are time-synchronized with each other. In other words, all the wireless backhaul signal  1520 , the interference  1521  occurring from the wireless backhaul signal  1520 , the wireless access signal  1510 , and the interference  1512  occurring the wireless access signal  1510  may be time-synchronized with each other for the base station  110 , and the base station  110  may select a DFT or FFT section, in which interference between adjacent symbols is not caused, so as to perform DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals. In order to secure the UDG for the base station  110 , symbol  13  corresponding to PUCCH should be received by the base station  110  at a time point preceding, by UDG D , the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110  in the subframe  1590 , and therefore symbol  13  may collide with symbol  12 . In order to avoid the collision, a time section corresponding to symbol  12  of the subframe  1590  may be designated as a protection section, and the terminal  120  may not transmit symbol  12 . 
     In the embodiment described above, the terminal  120  did not transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1590  to avoid the collision with symbol  13  of the subframe  1590 , but this is exemplary, and the terminal  120  may not transmit a symbol other than symbol  12 . For example, the terminal  120  may transmit symbol  12  of the subframe  1590 , but may not transmit symbol  13 . 
     In the seventh communication situation, the base station  110  may perform DFT or FFT calculation of size N for the received signals, may determine a channel matrix by estimating a channel value of the wireless backhaul signal  1520 , a channel value of the interference  1523 , a channel value of the wireless access signal  1510 , and a channel value of the interface  1512  on the basis of the received signals, and may detect data of the wireless access signal  1510  and data of the wireless backhaul signal  1520  by using a result of the DFT and FFT calculation and the channel matrix. The result of the DFT and FFT calculation for the received signals by the base station  110  may be expressed similarly to &lt;Equation 18&gt;, and the channel matrix may be expressed similarly to &lt;Equation 19&gt;. In a procedure of detecting the data of the wireless access signal  1510  and the data of the wireless backhaul signal  1520 , the base station  110  may remove the interference  1423  and the interference  1432  from the received signals by using a suitable multi-antenna detection technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). 
     In the seventh communication situation, the wireless backhaul signal  1520  transmitted to the base station  110  by the base station  130  is received at a time point delayed by RTT B  from the reference synchronization time point of the base station  110 . If the base station  110  receives wireless backhaul signals from a plurality of base stations such as the base station  130  in the seventh communication situation, RTT between the base station  110  and each of the base stations may be different for each base station, and therefore the received wireless backhaul signals may not time-synchronized with each other for the base station  110 . Therefore, if the base station  110  performs wireless backhaul communication with the plurality of base stations such as the base station  130  in the seventh communication situation, while a wireless backhaul signal is received from one of the plurality of base stations, scheduling for the plurality of base stations may be required so that wireless backhaul signals are not received from the other base stations of the plurality of base stations. Further, the RTT between the base station  110  and each base station may be different for each base station, and therefore TTA of the wireless access signal for the terminal may be different for each base station communicating with the base station  110 . 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, other interferences  1513  and  1531  may also occur, but it is assumed that the interferences may be easily removed according to a suitable interference cancellation technique (e.g., MMSE-OSIC and MMSE-OSIC 2 ). 
     Data symbols, guard symbols, and TTA of uplink signals for respective communication situations including the communication situations illustrated in  FIG. 9  to  FIG. 15  are shown in &lt;Table 1&gt;. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 1 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 Communication 
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                   
                 situation 
                 Data symbol 
                 Guard symbol 
                 TTA of uplink signal 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 Number 
                 WBH 
                 UED 
                 UER 
                 WBH 
                 UED 
                 UER 
                 WBH 
                 UED 
                 UER 
                 WBH 
                 UED 
                 UER 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 1 
                 UL 
                 UL 
                 UL 
                 2-12 
                 2-12 
                 2-12 
                 1 
                 1 
                 1 
                 TTA B1   
                 TTA D1   
                 TTA R3   
               
               
                 2 
                 UL 
                 UL 
                 DL 
                 1-11 
                 2-11 
                 1-11 
                 12 
                 1, 12 
                 12 
                 TTA B3   
                 TTA D3   
                 — 
               
               
                 3 
                 UL 
                 DL 
                 UL 
                 2-11 
                 1-11 
                 2-12 
                 1, 12 
                 12 
                 1 
                 TTA B2   
                 — 
                 TTA R4   
               
               
                 4 
                 UL 
                 DL 
                 DL 
                 N/A 
                 N/A 
                 N/A 
                 N/A 
                 N/A 
                 N/A 
                 N/A 
                 N/A 
                 N/A 
               
               
                 5 
                 DL 
                 UL 
                 UL 
                 1-11 
                 2-11 
                 2-11 
                 12 
                 1, 12 
                 1, 12 
                 — 
                 TTA D2   
                 TTA R2   
               
               
                 6 
                 DL 
                 UL 
                 DL 
                 1-11 
                 2-11 
                 1-11 
                 12 
                 1, 12 
                 12 
                 — 
                 TTA D2   
                 — 
               
               
                 7 
                 DL 
                 DL 
                 UL 
                 1-11 
                 1-11 
                 2-11 
                 12 
                 12 
                 1, 12 
                 — 
                 — 
                 TTA R2   
               
               
                 8 
                 DL 
                 DL 
                 DL 
                 1-11 
                 1-11 
                 1-11 
                 12 
                 12 
                 12 
                 — 
                 — 
                 — 
               
               
                 9 
                 Null 
                 UL 
                 UL 
                 — 
                 2-12 
                 2-12 
                 — 
                 1 
                 1 
                 — 
                 TTA D1   
                 TTA R1   
               
               
                 10 
                 Null 
                 UL 
                 DL 
                 — 
                 2-12 
                 1-11 
                 — 
                 1 
                 12 
                 — 
                 TTA D1   
                 — 
               
               
                 11 
                 Null 
                 DL 
                 UL 
                 — 
                 1-11 
                 2-12 
                 — 
                 12 
                 1 
                 — 
                 — 
                 TTA R1   
               
               
                 12 
                 Null 
                 DL 
                 DL 
                 — 
                 1-11 
                 1-11 
                 — 
                 12 
                 12 
                 — 
                 — 
                 — 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In &lt;Table 1&gt;, WBH refers to a wireless backhaul channel between a donor base station (e.g., the base station  110 ) and a relay base station (e.g., the base station  130 ), UED refers to a wireless access channel between the donor base station and a serving terminal (e.g., the terminal  120 ) of the donor base station, and UER refers to a wireless access channel between the relay base station and a serving terminal (e.g., the terminal  140 ) of the relay base station. According to &lt;Table 1&gt;, a communication situation may be defined on the basis of a signal direction (UP or DL) in each of WBH, UED, and UER. Data symbol items in &lt;Table 1&gt; indicate symbol numbers of symbols (e.g., PDSCH, PUSCH, rPDSCH, and rPUSCH) in which data is transmitted in one subframe for signals transmitted via WBH, UED, and UER respectively. Guard symbol items in &lt;Table 1&gt; indicate symbol numbers of symbols used as protection sections in one subframe for signals transmitted via WBH, UED, and UER respectively. If the signals transmitted via WBH, UED, and UER respectively are uplink signals, TTA items of the uplink signals of &lt;Table 1&gt; indicate TTA for nodes at which the uplink signals are transmitted. In &lt;Table 1&gt;, the signal direction of WBH is indicated as null in communication situations corresponding to numbers 9 to 12, and this indicates that the communication situations corresponding to numbers 9 to 12 are communication situations in which a signal is not transmitted or received via wireless backhaul between base stations. The RTA of the uplink signals may be naturally derived if the TTA of the uplink signals are determined, and is thus omitted from &lt;Table 1&gt;. 
     According to &lt;Table 1&gt;, the TTA of the uplink signals transmitted via WBH may be determined to be one value among TTA B1 , TTA B2  and TTA B3  depending on the communication situations. The principle of determining each of TTA B1 , TTA B2  and TTA B3 , and a specific value thereof are as shown in &lt;Table 2&gt; below. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 2 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 TTA (or 
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 RTA) 
                 TTA and RTA of uplink 
               
               
                 index 
                 signal transmitted via WBH 
                 WBH1 
                 WBH2 
                 WBH3 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 1 
                 TTA B1  = RTT B  + UDG D   
                 9.2 
                 10.3 
                 8.3 
               
               
                   
                 RTA B1  = UDG D   
                 2.5 
                 2.5 
                 2.5 
               
               
                 2 
                 TTA B2  = RTT B   
                 6.7 
                 7.8 
                 5.8 
               
               
                   
                 RTA B2  = 0 
                 0 
                 0 
                 0 
               
               
                 3 
                 TTA B3  = 0 
                 0 
                 0 
                 0 
               
               
                   
                 RTA B3  = −RTT B   
                 −6.7 
                 −7.8 
                 −5.8 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In &lt;Table 2&gt;, WBH  1  refers to a wireless backhaul channel between a donor base station (e.g., the base station  110 ) and a first relay base station, WBH  2  refers to a wireless backhaul channel between the donor base station and a second relay base station, and WBH  3  refers to a wireless backhaul channel between the donor base station and a third relay base station. One of the first to third relay base stations may be the base station  130 . In &lt;Table 2&gt;, values corresponding to WBH  1  refer to TTA or RTA of uplink signals transmitted via WBH  1 , values corresponding to WBH  2  refer to TTA or RAT of uplink signals transmitted via WBH  2 , and values corresponding to WBH  3  refer to TTA or RTA of uplink signals transmitted via WBH  3 . In &lt;Table 2&gt;, units of the values expressed for WBH  1 , WBH  2 , and WBH  3 , respectively, may be us. The values illustrated in &lt;Table 2&gt; are exemplary, and may vary depending on other elements (e.g., channel situations and distances between the donor base station and the relay base stations). 
     According to &lt;Table 1&gt;, the TTA of the uplink signals transmitted via UED may be determined to be one value among TTA D1 , TTA D2  and TTA D3  depending on the communication situations. The principle of determining each of TTA D1 , TTA D2 , and TTA D3 , and a specific value thereof are as shown in &lt;Table 3&gt; below. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 3 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 TTA (or 
                 TTA and RTA of uplink 
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 RTA) 
                 signal transmitted 
               
               
                 index 
                 via UED 
                 UED1 
                 UED2 
                 UED3 
                 UED4 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 1 
                 TTA D1  = RTT D  + UDG D   
                 5.3 
                 6.1 
                 3.2 
                 4.7 
               
               
                   
                 RTA D1  = UDG D   
                 2.5 
                 2.5 
                 2.5 
                 2.5 
               
               
                 2 
                 TTA D2  = RTT D   
                 2.8 
                 3.6 
                 0.7 
                 2.2 
               
               
                   
                 RTA D2  = 0 
                 0 
                 0 
                 0 
                 0 
               
               
                 3-1 
                 TTA D3  = RTT D  − RTT B   
                 −3.9 
                 −3.1 
                 −6.0 
                 −4.5 
               
               
                   
                 RTA D3  = −RTT B   
                 −6.7 
                 −6.7 
                 −6.7 
                 −6.7 
               
               
                 3-2 
                 TTA D3  = RTT D  − RTT B   
                 −5.0 
                 −4.2 
                 −7.1 
                 −5.6 
               
               
                   
                 RTA D3  = −RTT B   
                 −7.8 
                 −7.8 
                 −7.8 
                 −7.8 
               
               
                 3-3 
                 TTA D3  = RTT D  − RTT B   
                 −3.0 
                 −2.2 
                 −5.1 
                 −3.6 
               
               
                   
                 RTA D3  = −RTT B   
                 −5.8 
                 −5.8 
                 −5.8 
                 −5.8 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In &lt;Table 3&gt;, UED  1  refers to a wireless access channel between a donor base station (e.g., the base station  110 ) and a first terminal, UED  2  refers to a wireless access channel between the donor base station and a second terminal, UED  3  refers to a wireless access channel between the donor base station and a third terminal, and UED  4  refers to a wireless access channel between the donor base station and a fourth terminal. One of the first to fourth terminals may be the terminal  120 . According to index 3-1 and index 3-3 in &lt;Table 3&gt;, the principles of determining TTA D3  thereof are the same but specific values of TTA D3  are different. This is because, in a communication situation where TTA for each terminal should be determined to be TTA D3  (=RTT D −RTT B ), a specific value of TTA D3  may vary depending on a relay base station performing communication with the donor base station. For example, specific values corresponding to index 3-1 may be values determined in a situation where the donor base station communicates with the first relay base station via WBH  1 , specific values corresponding to index 3-2 may be values determined in a situation where the donor base station communicates with the second relay base station via WBH  2 , and specific values corresponding to index 3-3 may be values determined in a situation where the donor base station communicates with the third relay base station via WBH  3 . In &lt;Table 3&gt;, values corresponding to UED  1  refer to TTA or RTA of uplink signals transmitted via UED  1 , values corresponding to UED  2  refer to TTA or RAT of uplink signals transmitted via UED  2 , values corresponding to UED  3  refer to TTA or RTA of uplink signals transmitted via UED  3 , and values corresponding to UED  4  refer to TTA or RTA of uplink signals transmitted via UED  4 . In &lt;Table 3&gt;, units of the values expressed for UED  1 , UED  1 , UED  2 , UED  3 , and UED  4 , respectively, may be us. The values illustrated in &lt;Table 3&gt; are exemplary, and may vary depending on other elements (e.g., channel situations and distances between the donor base station and the terminals). 
     According to &lt;Table 1&gt;, the TTA of the uplink signals transmitted via UER may be determined to be one value among TTA R1 , TTA R2 , TTA R3 , and TTA R4  depending on the communication situations. The principle of determining each of TTA R1 , TTA R2 , TTA R3 , and TTA R4 , and a specific value thereof are as shown in &lt;Table 4&gt; below. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 4 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 TTA (or 
                 TTA and RTA of uplink 
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 RTA) 
                 signal transmitted 
               
               
                 index 
                 via UER 
                 UER1 
                 UER2 
                 UER3 
                 UER4 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
            
               
                 1 
                 TTA R1  = RTT R  + UDG R   
                 4.2 
                 3.7 
                 5.3 
                 5.2 
               
               
                   
                 RTA R1  = UDG R   
                 2.5 
                 2.5 
                 2.5 
                 2.5 
               
               
                 2 
                 TTA R2  = RTT R   
                 1.7 
                 1.2 
                 2.8 
                 2.7 
               
               
                   
                 RTA R2  = 0 
                 0 
                 0 
                 0 
                 0 
               
               
                 3 
                 TTA R3  = RTT R  + TTA B1   
                 10.9 
                 10.4 
                 12.0 
                 11.9 
               
               
                   
                 RTA R3  = TTA B1   
                 9.2 
                 9.2 
                 9.2 
                 9.2 
               
               
                 4 
                 TTA R4  = RTT R  + TTA B2   
                 8.4 
                 7.9 
                 9.5 
                 9.4 
               
               
                   
                 RTA R4  = TTA B2   
                 6.7 
                 6.7 
                 6.7 
                 6.7 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In &lt;Table 4&gt;, UER  1  refers to a wireless access channel between a relay base station (e.g., the base station  130 ) and a fifth relay base station, UER  2  refers to a wireless access channel between the relay base station and a sixth terminal, UER  3  refers to a wireless access channel between the relay base station and a seventh terminal, and UER  4  refers to a wireless access channel between the relay base station and an eighth terminal. One of the fifth to eighth terminals may be the terminal  140 . In &lt;Table 4&gt;, values corresponding to UER  1  refer to TTA or RTA of uplink signals transmitted via UER  1 , values corresponding to UER  2  refer to TTA or RAT of uplink signals transmitted via UER  2 , values corresponding to UER  3  refer to TTA or RTA of uplink signals transmitted via UER  3 , and values corresponding to UER  4  refer to TTA or RTA of uplink signals transmitted via UER  4 . In &lt;Table 4&gt;, units of the values expressed for UER  1 , UER  2 , UER  3 , and UER  4 , respectively, may be us. The values illustrated in &lt;Table 4&gt; are exemplary, and may vary depending on other elements (e.g., channel situations and distances between the relay base station and the terminals). 
     In &lt;Table 2&gt; to &lt;Table 4&gt;, an RTA value of less than 0 means that a reception time point of an uplink signal, which is associated with a base station, is delayed compared to a reference synchronization time point of the base station. In order for a base station to change configurations of base station elements for receiving an uplink signal to configurations for transmitting a downlink signal, the base station should secure a protection section corresponding to a minimum UDG, and therefore the base station may further designate at least one of uplink symbols as the protection section if the RTA has a value smaller than the UDG. However, if the RTA is equal to or greater than the UDG, the base station may not designate at least one of the uplink symbols as the protection section, and may reduce waste due to designation of the protection section. 
     &lt;Table 5&gt; indicates directions of signals transmitted via respective channels in subframes corresponding to respective indexes (0 to 9). 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 5 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 Subframe index 
                 0 
                 1 
                 2 
                 3 
                 4 
                 5 
                 6 
                 7 
                 8 
                 9 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 Wireless access channel  
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
               
               
                 related to donor base station 
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 WBH 1 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
               
               
                 Wireless access channel  
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
                 U 
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
               
               
                 related to first relay base  
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 station 
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 WBH 2 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
                 U 
                 D 
                 — 
                 U 
                 D 
               
               
                 Wireless access channel  
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
                 U 
                 D 
               
               
                 related to second relay  
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 base station 
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 WBH 3 
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 — 
                 U 
                 D 
               
               
                 Wireless access channel  
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 D 
                 U 
                 D 
                 U 
                 U 
                 D 
               
               
                 related to third relay base  
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 station 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     According to &lt;Table 5&gt;, different communication situations may be defined for each subframe. In &lt;Table 5&gt;, “D” refers to downlink, and “U” refers to uplink, and “-” indicates that there is no wireless signal transmitted via a corresponding channel. In &lt;Table 5&gt;, communication situations corresponding to respective subframes are exemplary, and the communication situations may be different from those in &lt;Table 5&gt; for each subframe. 
     If directions of signals transmitted via respective channels in subframes corresponding to respective indexes (0 to 9) are the same as those in &lt;Table 5&gt;, TTA (or RTA) indexes of the uplink signals transmitted via respective channels in each subframe are as shown in &lt;Table 6&gt; below. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 6 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 Subframe index 
                 0 
                 1 
                 2 
                 3 
                 4 
                 5 
                 6 
                 7 
                 8 
                 9 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 Wireless access channel  
                 — 
                 — 
                 2 
                 — 
                 2 
                 1 
                 — 
                 3-1 
                 — 
                 2 
               
               
                 related to donor base station 
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 WBH 1 
                 — 
                 2 
                 — 
                 — 
                 — 
                 1 
                 — 
                 3 
                 — 
                 2 
               
               
                 Wireless access channel  
                 — 
                 4 
                 — 
                 2 
                 — 
                 3 
                 2 
                 — 
                 — 
                 4 
               
               
                 related to first relay base  
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 station 
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 WBH 2 
                 — 
                 2 
                 — 
                 — 
                 2 
                 1 
                 — 
                 — 
                 2 
                 — 
               
               
                 Wireless access channel  
                 — 
                 4 
                 — 
                 — 
                 4 
                 3 
                 — 
                 1 
                 4 
                 — 
               
               
                 related to second relay base  
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 station 
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 WBH 3 
                 — 
                 — 
                 2 
                 — 
                 — 
                 1 
                 — 
                 — 
                 2 
                 — 
               
               
                 Wireless access channel  
                 — 
                 — 
                 4 
                 — 
                 — 
                 3 
                 — 
                 1 
                 4 
                 — 
               
               
                 related to third relay base  
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                 station 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In &lt;Table 6&gt;, “-” indicates that there is no signal transmitted via a corresponding channel, or a signal transmitted via the channel is a downlink signal. 
       FIG. 16  illustrates a flowchart of a TTA determination device in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. For example, the TTA determination device of  FIG. 16  may be a device different from the base station  110  and the base station  130 . As another example, the TTA determination device may be included in the base station  110  and/or device  130 . In this case, the TTA determination device described hereinafter may be performed by a controller (e.g., the controller  240 ) of the base station  110  and/or the base station  130 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 16 , in operation  1601 , the TTA determination device determines a direction of a wireless backhaul signal related to a donor base station (e.g., the base station  110 ). 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, in operation  1603 , the TTA determination device determines a direction of a wireless access signal related to the donor base station. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is uplink, in operation  1605 , the TTA determination device determines a direction of the wireless access signal related to a relay base station (e.g., the base station  130 ). 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station is uplink, in operation  1607 , the TTA determination device determines TTA of the wireless backhaul signal as TTA B1 , determines TTA of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station as TTA D1 , and determines TTA of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station as TTA R3 . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station is downlink, in operation  1609 , the TTA determination device determines TTA of the wireless backhaul signal as TTA B3 , and determines TTA of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station as TTA D3 . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is downlink, in operation  1611 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of the wireless access signal related to a relay base station. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station is uplink, in operation  1613 , the TTA determination device determines TTA of the wireless backhaul signal as TTA B2 , and determines TTA of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station as TTA R4 . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station is downlink, in operation  1615 , the TTA determination device may not determine TTA of the signals. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, in operation  1617 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is uplink, in operation  1619 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station is uplink, in operation  1621 , the TTA determination device determines TTA of the wireless access signal related to the donor device as TTA D2 , and determines TTA of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station as TTA R2 . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station is downlink, in operation  1623 , the TTA determination device determines TTA of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station as TTA D2 . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is downlink, in operation  1625 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station is uplink, in operation  1627 , the TTA determination device determines TTA of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station as TTA R2 . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station is downlink, in operation  1629 , the TTA determination device may not determine TTA of the signals. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal has a null value, in other words, if the donor base station and the relay device do not transmit or receive signals via wireless backhaul, the TTA determination device may determine TTA of the wireless access signal related to the donor base station as TTA D1 , and may determine TTA of the wireless access signal related to the relay base station as TTA R1 . 
     In  FIG. 16 , the sequence of determining the directions of the signals are exemplary, and the TTA determination device may determine the directions of the signals in a sequence different from that illustrated in  FIG. 16 . 
     Various embodiments of the disclosure may be applied not only to a wireless communication system including one relay base station and one donor base station, as shown in  FIG. 1 , but also to a multi-hop relay system in which one relay base station functions as a donor base station of another relay base station. In a multi-hop relay system, a base station corresponding to an n-th hop may function as a donor base station of a base station corresponding to an (n+1)th hop. Similarly, the base station corresponding to the (n+1)th hop may function as a relay base station of the base station corresponding to the nth hop. Likewise, in the multi-hop relay system, donor base station n and relay base station n+1 may be defined. 
     As shown in &lt;Table 3&gt;, in a situation where TTA of an uplink signal transmitted via UED should be determined to be TTA D3  (=a communication situation corresponding to operation  1609  of  FIG. 16 ), a specific value of TTA D3  may vary depending on the relay base station performing communication with the donor base station. Further, in a communication situation corresponding to operation  1615  of  FIG. 16 , TTA of the wireless backhaul signal may not be easily determined. Therefore, if these communication situations are not considered, TTA for each node in the multi-hop relay system may be determined more simply. Hereinafter, on the basis of  FIG. 17A  to  FIG. 17C , TTA determination methods in the multi-hop relay system of a case where these communication situations have been excluded are described. 
       FIG. 17A  to  FIG. 17C  illustrate flowcharts of a TTA determination device when a multi-hop relay scheme is supported in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. In  FIG. 17A  to  FIG. 17C , donor base station n and relay base station n+1 in the multi-hop relay system and signals related thereto are considered. For example, a TTA determination device may be a device different from donor base station n and relay base station n+1. As another example, the TTA determination device may be included in donor base station n and/or relay base station n+1, wherein operations of the TTA determination device, which are described hereinafter, may be performed by donor base station n and/or relay base station n+1. 
     Referring to  FIG. 17A , in operation  1701 , the TTA determination device determines that a direction of a wireless backhaul signal related to donor base station n is uplink. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, in operation  1703 , the TTA determination device determines a direction of a wireless access signal related to donor base station n. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, in operation  1705 , the TTA determination device determines a direction of a wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is uplink, in operation  1707 , the TTA determination device determines TTA R[n+1] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, to be a sum of RTT R[n+1]  and TTA B[n] , and determines TTA D[n] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, to be a sum of RTT D[n]  and UDG D[n] . RTT R[n+1]  refers to a time taken for a signal to travel a round-trip time between relay base station n+1 and a serving terminal of relay base station n+1, TTA B[n]  refers to a time offset at which relay base station n+1 transmits an uplink wireless backhaul signal to donor base station n, RTT D[n]  refers to a time taken for a signal to travel a round-trip distance between donor base station n and a serving terminal of donor base station n, and UDG D[n]  refers to a minimum time required for donor base station n to change configurations of base station elements for receiving an uplink wireless access signal to configurations for transmitting a downlink wireless access signal. RTA R[n+1] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, may be determined to be TTA B[n] , and RTA D[n] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, may be determined to be UDG D[n] . 
     A case, in which the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is downlink, corresponds to a communication situation that is not considered, and therefore the TTA determination device may not determine TTA of the signals, in operation  1709 . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, in operation  1711 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is uplink, in operation  1713 , the TTA determination device determines TTA R[n+1] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, to be a sum of RTT R[n+1]  and TTA B[n] . RTA R[n+1] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, may be determined to be TTA B[n] . 
     A case, in which the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is uplink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is downlink, corresponds to a communication situation that is not considered, and therefore the TTA determination device may not determine TTA of the signals, in operation  1715 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 17B , in operation  1717 , the TTA determination device determines that the direction of the wireless backhaul signal related to donor base station n is uplink. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, in operation  1719 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, in operation  1721 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of a wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is uplink, in operation  1723 , the TTA determination device determines TTA R[n+1] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, to be RTT R[n+1] , and determines TTA D[n] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, to be RTT D[n] . RTA R[n+1] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, may be determined to be 0 (=a reference synchronization time point of relay base station n+1), and RTA D[n] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, may be determined to be 0 (=a reference synchronization time point of donor base station n). 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is downlink, in operation  1725 , the TTA determination device determines TTA D[n] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station, to be RTT D[n] . RTA D[n] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, may be determined to be 0 (=the reference synchronization time point of donor base station n). 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, in operation  1727 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of a wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is uplink, in operation  1729 , the TTA determination device determines TTA R[n+1] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, to be RTT R[n+1] . RTA R[n+1] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, may be determined to be 0 (=the reference synchronization time point of relay base station n+1). 
     A case, in which the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is downlink, is a case in which all directions of the signals are downlink, and therefore the TTA determination device may not determine TTA of the signals, in operation  1731 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 17C , in operation  1733 , the TTA determination device determines that the direction of the wireless backhaul signal related to donor base station n is null. In other words, the TTA determination device determines that donor base station n and relay base station n do not transmit or receive signals via wireless backhaul. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is null, in operation  1735 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is null, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, in operation  1737 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of a wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is null, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is uplink, in operation  1739 , the TTA determination device determines TTA R[n+1] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, to be a sum of RTT R[n+1]  and UDG R[n+1] , and determines TTA D[n] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, to be a sum of RTT D[n]  and UDG D[n] . UDG R[n+1]  refers to a minimum time required for relay base station n+1 to change configurations of base station elements for receiving an uplink wireless access signal to configurations for transmitting a downlink wireless access signal. RTA R[n+1] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, may be determined to be UDG R[n+1] , and RTA D[n] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, may be determined to be UDG [n] . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is null, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is uplink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is downlink, in operation  1741 , the TTA determination device determines TTA D[n] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, to be a sum of RTT D[n]  and UDG D[n] . RTA D[n] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n, may be determined to be UDG D[n] . 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is null, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, in operation  1743 , the TTA determination device determines the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1. 
     If the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is null, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is uplink, in operation  1745 , the TTA determination device determines TTA R[n+1] , which is TTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, to be a sum of RTT R[n+1]  and UDG R[n+1] . RTA R[n+1] , which is RTA of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1, may be determined to be UDG R[n+1] . 
     A case, in which the direction of the wireless backhaul signal is downlink, the direction of the wireless access signal related to donor base station n is downlink, and the direction of the wireless access signal related to relay base station n+1 is downlink, is a case in which all directions of the signals are downlink, and therefore the TTA determination device may not determine TTA of the signals, in operation  1747 . 
     The sequences of determining the directions of the signals in  FIG. 17A  to  FIG. 17C  are exemplary, and the TTA determination device may determine the directions of the signals in a sequence different from that illustrated in  FIG. 17A  to  FIG. 17C . 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, in order for a terminal to transmit an uplink signal according to suitable TTA, a base station should provide the terminal with information related to TTA. For example, the base station may transmit, to the terminal, information relating to TTA via at least one of a PDCCH (e.g., downlink control information (DCI) transmitted on the PDCCH), a media access control (MAC) control element (CE), a radio resource control (RRC), and a radio link control (RLC). The information relating to TTA may be transmitted during a procedure of initial access to the base station by the terminal. For example, if the terminal transmits a random access channel (RACH) signal to the base station and accesses the base station, the base station may transmit information relating to TTA to the terminal. The information relating to TTA may further include a baseline TTA value which is to be used by the terminal for transmission of information corresponding to PUCCH. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, the base station may transmit information relating to TTA to the terminal each time a wireless resource for uplink communication of the terminal is allocated. The base station first transmits, to the terminal, a list of all TTA values available to the terminal, and then the base station may transmit, to the terminal, only an index corresponding to a TTA value in the list, which is to be used by the terminal in a current communication situation. According to various embodiments, the list of TTA values may include TTA values and TTA indexes corresponding to respective communication situations as shown in &lt;Table 1&gt;, &lt;Table 2&gt;, &lt;Table 3&gt;, &lt;Table 4&gt;, &lt;Table 5&gt;, and &lt;Table 6&gt;. The amount of control information transmitted by the base station to the terminal may be reduced. The terminal may retrieve a TTA value in the TTA list, which corresponds to an index received from the base station, and then may transmit an uplink signal to the base station according to the retrieved TTA value. 
     The TTA value is determined according to a communication situation, and TTA indexes designated for all terminals in a specific communication situation are the same. Therefore, the base station may transmit information relating to TTA as common information (e.g., broadcast information) to all terminals and, in this case, the amount of control information transmitted to the terminal by the base station may be further reduced. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a communication situation may vary for each subframe. In this case, the base station may transmit, to the terminal, information relating to TTA at each subframe. A plurality of communication situations may be repeated periodically. For example, the plurality of communication situations may be repeated for each 40 subframes. TTA values correspond to communication situations, and therefore when the plurality of communication situations are periodically repeated, the TTA values may be also periodically repeated. The base station may broadcast, as system information, information including at least one of a sequence in which a plurality of communication situations are repeated and a period in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated, and the amount of control information transmitted to the terminal by the base station may be further reduced. 
     If the terminal moves and a distance between the base station and the terminal changes, or a communication environment and a communication path change, a TTA value may also change. In this case, the base station may transmit information relating to a changed TTA value to the terminal. However, even if a specific value of TTA changes, the principle of determining TTA in each communication situation and an TTA index corresponding to each communication situation may not change. Therefore, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, a plurality of tables including lists of TTA values may be defined in advance. Each of the plurality of tables may be distinguished by an index. If the base station determines that a TTA value for the terminal has been changed, the base station may identify a table including the TTA value changed in a corresponding communication situation. The base station may provide the terminal with information relating to the index of the identified table, and the terminal may identify a TTA value corresponding to an existing TTA index in a table of the received index. 
     Hereinafter, a procedure of transmitting information relating to TTA will be described in more detail in  FIG. 18  to  FIG. 19 . 
       FIG. 18  illustrates a flowchart of transmitting information relating to TTA between a terminal and a base station in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. The signal flow illustrated in  FIG. 18  may be transmitted or received between a donor base station (e.g., the base station  110 ) and a serving terminal (e.g., the terminal  120 ) of the donor base station. Alternatively, the signal flow illustrated in  FIG. 18  may be transmitted or received between a relay base station (e.g., the base station  130 ) and a serving terminal (e.g., the terminal  140 ) of the relay base station. 
     Referring to  FIG. 18 , in operation  1801 , a terminal transmits a synchronization signal to a terminal. The terminal may receive the synchronization signal so as to be time-synchronized with the base station. Although not illustrated, the terminal receives system information and broadcast control information from the base station, and acquires information necessary for accessing the base station by the terminal. 
     In operation  1803 , the terminal transmits an RACH signal to the base station. In order to access the base station, the terminal may transmit the RACH signal to the base station. 
     In operation  1805 , the terminal performs initial access to the base station. The terminal may receive acknowledgment (ACK) information for the RACH signal, and the terminal may perform initial access to the base station. 
     Although not illustrated, after operation  1805 , the base station calculates TTA values to be used by the terminal, which has performed the initial access, in respective communication situations, and generates a list of the TTA values. According to various embodiments, the list of TTA values may include TTA values and TTA indexes corresponding to respective communication situations as shown in &lt;Table 1&gt;, &lt;Table 2&gt;, &lt;Table 3&gt;, &lt;Table 4&gt;, &lt;Table 5&gt;, and &lt;Table 6&gt;. 
     In operation  1807 , the terminal transmits the TTA list to the base station. The TTA list may be transmitted via at least one of PDCCH, MAC CE, RRC, and RLC. 
     In operation  1809 , the base station transmits a TTA index to the terminal. The base station may transmit a TTA index in the TTA list, which corresponds to a current communication situation, to the terminal. 
     In operation  1811 , the terminal transmits a PUSCH, which is an uplink signal, to the base station. The terminal may identify a TTA value corresponding to the TTA index in the TTA list, which is received from the base station, and may transmit the PUSCH to the base station according to the TTA value. 
     The TTA list has already been transmitted to the terminal in operation  1807 , and therefore the base station transmits only the TTA index to the terminal in operation  1813  when the communication situation is changed. That is, the base station does not retransmit the TTA list to the terminal. 
     In operation  1815 , the terminal transmits the PUSCH to the base station. The terminal may identify a TTA value corresponding to a TTA index in the TTA list, which is newly received from the base station, and may transmit the PUSCH to the base station according to the TTA value. 
     If the terminal moves and a distance between the base station and the terminal changes, or a communication environment and a communication path change, the terminal transmits the RACH signal to the base station in operation  1817 . Thereafter, the base station re-calculates TTA values to be used by the terminal in respective communication situations, and generates a list of the TTA values. Hereinafter, operations performed in operations  1819  to  1823  are the same as the operations performed in operations  1807  to  1811 . 
     In  FIG. 18 , the base station first transmits a TTA list to the terminal, and transmits only a TTA index to the terminal each time a communication situation changes. However, this is exemplary, and the base station may indicate a TTA value itself to the terminal each time the communication situation changes. In this case, the base station may not transmit the TTA list to the terminal. A plurality of communication situations may be periodically repeated, and therefore the base station may transmit, to the terminal, information including at least one of a current communication situation after the terminal performs initial access, a sequence in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated, and a period in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated, and then TTA-related signaling may not be performed to the terminal. In  FIG. 18 , it has been described that the information relating to TTA (e.g., the TTA list) is transmitted in the initial access procedure. However, this is exemplary, and the information relating to TTA may be transmitted at a time point other than the initial access procedure. 
       FIG. 19  illustrates a procedure of transmitting information relating to TTA between a donor base station, a relay base station, and a terminal in the wireless communication system according to various embodiments of the disclosure. 
     Referring to  FIG. 19 , in operation  1901 , a donor base station transmits a synchronization signal to a relay base station. The relay base station may receive the synchronization signal from the donor base station so as to be time-synchronized with the donor base station. Although not illustrated, the relay base station receives system information and broadcast control information from the donor base station, and acquires information necessary for accessing the donor base station by the relay base station. 
     The relay base station transmits an RACH signal to the donor base station in operation  1903 , and the relay base station performs initial access to the donor base station so as to initiate wireless backhaul communication, in operation  1905 . 
     Although not illustrated, after operation  1905 , the donor base station calculates TTA values to be used by the relay base station, which has performed the initial access, in respective communication situations, and generates a list of the TTA values. 
     In operation  1907 , the donor base station transmits the TTA list to the relay base station. The TTA list may be transmitted via at least one of PDCCH, MAC CE, RRC, and RLC. 
     In operation  1909 , the donor base station transmits a TTA index to the relay base station. The donor base station may transmit a TTA index in the TTA list, which corresponds to a current communication situation, to the relay base station. 
     In operation  1911 , the relay base station transmits an rPUCH, which is an uplink wireless backhaul signal, to the donor base station. The relay base station may identify a TTA value corresponding to the TTA index in the TTA list, which is received from the donor base station, and may transmit the rPUCH to the donor base station according to the TTA value. 
     The TTA list has already been transmitted to the relay base station in operation  1907 , and therefore the donor base station transmits only the TTA index to the relay base station in operation  1913  when the communication situation is changed. That is, the donor base station does not retransmit the TTA list to the relay base station. 
     In operation  1915 , the relay base station transmits the rPUCH to the base station. The relay base station may identify a TTA value corresponding to the TTA index in the TTA list, which is received from the donor base station, and may transmit the rPUCH to the donor base station according to the TTA value. 
     Although not illustrated, if a communication environment and a communication path between the relay base station and the donor base station are changed, the relay base station may re-perform operations in operations  1901  to  1907 . 
     Operations performed between the terminal and relay base station in operations  1917  to  1931  are the same as the operations performed in operations  1801  to  1815  of  FIG. 18 . However, a downlink signal received from the donor base station by the relay base station and a downlink signal transmitted to the terminal by the relay base station should be time-synchronized, and therefore the relay base station first performs initial access to the donor base station so as to be time-synchronized with the donor base station, and then the relay base station transmits a synchronization signal to the terminal in operation  1917 . When the relay base station calculates TTA values used by the terminal in respective communication situations, TTA values for the relay base station may be required. Therefore, the relay base station may first receive, from the donor base station, a list the TTA values for the relay base station, may calculate TTA values to be used by the terminal in respective communication situations, and then may transmit the TTA list to the terminal in operation  1923 . The TTA values to be used by the terminal in respective communication situations may vary depending on a communication situation related to the donor base station, and therefore the relay base station may receive, from the donor base station, information relating to the communication situation (e.g., at least one among information relating to a current communication situation, information relating to a sequence in which a plurality of communication situations are repeated, and information relating to a period in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated), and may determine TTA values to be used by the terminal in respective communication situations, on the basis of the received information relating to the communication situation. 
     If the terminal moves and a distance between the relay base station and the terminal changes, or a communication environment and a communication path change, the terminal transmits the RACH signal to the relay base station in operation  1933 . Thereafter, the relay base station re-calculates TTA values to be used by the terminal in respective communication situations, generates a list of the TTA values, and transmits the generated list of the TTA values to the terminal in operation  1935 . 
     In  FIG. 19 , the donor base station first transmits a TTA list to the relay base station, and transmits only a TTA index to the relay base station each time a communication situation changes. However, this is exemplary, and the donor base station may indicate a TTA value itself to the relay base station each time the communication situation changes. In this case, the donor base station may not transmit the TTA list to the relay base station. A plurality of communication situations may be periodically repeated, and therefore the donor base station may transmit, to the relay base station, information including at least one of a current communication situation after the relay base station performs initial access, a sequence in which the plurality of communication situation are repeated, and a period in which the plurality of communication situations are repeated, and then TTA-related signaling may not be performed to the relay base station. In  FIG. 19 , it has been described that the information relating to TTA (e.g., the TTA list) is transmitted in the initial access procedure. However, this is exemplary, and the information relating to TTA may be transmitted at a time point other than the initial access procedure. 
     In the embodiments described above, it has been assumed that the base station  110  and base station  130  concurrently perform communication with two nodes (that is, each base station uses two antennas). However, this is exemplary, and a base station may concurrently perform wireless access communication and wireless backhaul communication by using three or more antennas. In this case, a symbol structure of a symbol, to which a reference signal for channel estimation is assigned, may be different from a symbol structure illustrated in  FIG. 6 . For example, if a base station concurrently performs wireless backhaul communication and wireless access communication by using three antennas or more, at least three symbols (e.g., a first symbol, a second symbol, and a third symbol) of different structures, to which the reference signal has been assigned, may be required. For example, in a first symbol, the reference signal may be assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k (k=0, 1, . . . , M/6−1, wherein M is a total number of sub-carriers), a null sub-carrier may be assigned to sub-carrier indexes n=6k+2 and n=6k+4, and data may be assigned to the remaining sub-carrier indexes (=M/2 sub-carrier indexes). In a second symbol, the reference signal may be assigned to sub-carrier index 6k+2, a null sub-carrier may be assigned to sub-carrier indexes n=6k and n=6k+4, and data may be assigned to the remaining sub-carrier indexes (=M/2 sub-carrier indexes). In a third symbol, the reference signal may be assigned to sub-carrier index n=6k+4, a null sub-carrier may be assigned to sub-carrier indexes n=6k and n=6k+2, and data may be assigned to the remaining sub-carrier indexes (=M/2 sub-carrier indexes). As the example described above, if the reference signal is assigned to each six sub-carriers, the base station may concurrently perform communication using a maximum of six antennas, and may concurrently estimate six channels. However, according to a sub-carrier interval, to which the reference signal is assigned, the base station may use a larger number of antennas. For example, if the reference signal is assigned to each eight sub-carriers, the base station may concurrently perform communication using a maximum number of eight antennas. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, the technique of removing interference between a wireless backhaul signal and a wireless access signal has been described. However, this is exemplary, and various embodiments of the disclosure may be also applied to a plurality of wireless access signals related to the base station. For example, if the base station receives, while transmitting a downlink signal to one terminal, an uplink signal from another terminal, the base station may transmit, to the another terminal, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of the downlink signal and the uplink signal, and may receive the uplink signal transmitted from the another terminal according to the transmission time point, so as to remove SI having occurred from the downlink signal. Various embodiments of the disclosure may be also applied to a plurality of wireless backhaul signals related to the base station. For example, if the base station receives, while transmitting a downlink signal to another base station, an uplink signal from another base station, the base station may transmit, to the another base station, information relating to a transmission time point for time-synchronization of the downlink signal and the uplink signal, and may receive the uplink signal transmitted from the another base station according to the transmission time point, so as to remove SI having occurred from the downlink signal. 
     According to various embodiments of the disclosure, if the base station concurrently performs wireless access communication and wireless backhaul communication in the same frequency band as that of the terminal or the another base station, interference between a wireless access signal and a wireless backhaul signal may be removed. However, if frequencies or carriers, in which wireless access communication and wireless backhaul communication are performed, are different but adjacent, or different adjacent frequency resources are used in the same frequency band or carrier, various embodiments of the disclosure may be used to prevent occurrence of adjacent channel interference (ACI). If signals received in adjacent frequency bands (or adjacent carriers or adjacent frequency resources) are not time-synchronized with each other, DFT or FFT calculation for a signal received via any one frequency band may cause ACI for a signal received via adjacent another frequency band. ACI may be removed by time-synchronization of signals received via adjacent frequency bands. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, even if a base station receives signals related to the base station via adjacent frequency bands, the base station may adjust TTA of signals such that the signals related to the base station are time-synchronized with each other, and therefore ACI may not occur. In other words, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, ACI does not occur in received signals, and therefore a procedure of estimating or removing ACI may be omitted. 
     Methods according to embodiments stated in claims and/or specifications of the disclosure may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. 
     When the methods are implemented by software, a computer-readable storage medium for storing one or more programs (software modules) may be provided. The one or more programs stored in the computer-readable storage medium may be configured for execution by one or more processors within the electronic device. The at least one program may include instructions that cause the electronic device to perform the methods according to various embodiments of the disclosure as defined by the appended claims and/or disclosed herein. 
     The programs (software modules or software) may be stored in non-volatile memories including a random access memory and a flash memory, a Read Only Memory (ROM), an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), a magnetic disc storage device, a Compact Disc-ROM (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs), or other type optical storage devices, or a magnetic cassette. Alternatively, the programs may be stored in a memory including a combination of some or all of the memories. Further, a plurality of such memories may be included in the electronic device. 
     In addition, the programs may be stored in an attachable storage device which is accessible through communication networks such as the Internet, Intranet, local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and storage area network (SAN), or a combination thereof. Such a storage device may access a device that performs an embodiment of the disclosure via an external port. Further, a separate storage device on the communication network may access a portable electronic device. 
     In the above-described detailed embodiments of the disclosure, a component included in the disclosure is expressed in the singular or the plural according to a presented detailed embodiment. However, the singular form or plural form is selected for convenience of description suitable for the presented situation, and various embodiments of the disclosure are not limited to a single element or multiple elements thereof. Further, either multiple elements expressed in the description may be configured into a single element or a single element in the description may be configured into multiple elements. Further, either multiple elements expressed in the description may be configured into a single element or a single element in the description may be configured into multiple elements. 
     While the disclosure has been shown and described with reference to certain embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the scope of the disclosure. Therefore, the scope of the disclosure should not be defined as being limited to the embodiments, but should be defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.