Patent ID: 8670408

Claim:
A method for association in a relay network, comprising; receiving, by a serving Base Station (BS) of an associated neighbor station, a ranging request from the associated neighbor station, wherein the ranging request is received by the associated neighbor station from a Mobile Station (MS); sending, by the serving BS of the associated neighbor station, a ranging response to one of the MS and the associated neighbor station in response to the ranging request; wherein the associated neighbor station is a non-transparent Relay Station (RS), wherein the sending a ranging response to the MS comprises: sending, by the serving BS of the associated neighbor station, the ranging response to the associated neighbor station; and sending, by the associated neighbor station, the ranging response to the MS, wherein the serving BS of the associated neighbor station is a neighbor BS of the MS; and wherein the method for association in a relay network further comprises: negotiating association parameters between the associated neighbor station and the neighbor BS of the MS; sending, by the neighbor BS of the MS, the association parameters negotiated to a serving BS of the MS; sending, by the serving BS of the MS, the association parameters negotiated to the MS; sending, by the MS, a CDMA code included in the association parameters to the associated neighbor station; receiving, by the associated neighbor station, the CDMA code that requires no corrections from the MS; allocating, by the associated neighbor station, an uplink bandwidth to the MS for the MS to send the ranging request; and sending, by the MS, the ranging request to the associated neighbor station in response to the uplink bandwidth.