Patent ID: 8867383

Claim:
A method performed in a multi-hop wireless network by a radio base station that includes radio transceiving circuitry for communicating with one or more intermediate relay radio nodes and a user equipment (UE), comprising: assigning a radio channel resource to the UE to be utilized by the UE for a radio transmission; informing the one or more intermediate relay radio nodes of the assignment using the radio transceiving circuitry; receiving, at the radio transceiving circuitry, the radio transmission from the UE; measuring the received UE radio transmission; receiving one or more reference signal measurements of the radio transmission from the UE from the one or more intermediate relay radio nodes, wherein the one or more measurements from the one or more intermediate radio relay nodes depends on a location of the UE and the location of the intermediate relay node; and determining whether one or more of the one or more intermediate relay radio nodes are to be associated with the UE based on the measured UE radio transmission and the received one or more measurements of the radio transmission from the UE from the one or more intermediate relay radio nodes.