Patent ID: 8675542

Claim:
A method of operating a relay station (RS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving subframe configuration information through a higher layer from a base station (BS); and configuring a downlink subframe based on the subframe configuration information, wherein a first downlink transmission, from the BS to the RS, and a second downlink transmission, from the RS to an user equipment (UE), are performed at different time and in a downlink frequency band and, wherein a first uplink transmission, from the RS to the BS, and a second uplink transmission, from the UE to the RS, are performed at different time and in an uplink frequency band, and wherein the downlink subframe is configured for receiving a signal by the first downlink transmission, and wherein when a frame comprises 10 downlink subframes, the downlink subframe is configured per a specific number of subframes with an exception of a first downlink subframe, a fifth downlink subframe, a sixth downlink subframe and a tenth downlink subframe of the frame.