Patent ID: 7953050

Claim:
A relay transmission method, comprising: performing, by a relay node (RN), transmission between the RN and a base station on a relay link, the relay link comprising an uplink (UL) relay link from the RN to the base station and a downlink (DL) relay link from the base station to the RN; wherein a time division duplex (TDD) frame comprises ten subframes that are labeled as 0 to 9 from a first subframe to a tenth subframe, subframe 3 of the TDD frame is configured for the UL relay link, subframes 7 , 8 and 9 of the TDD frame are configured for the DL relay link, subframes 0 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 and 9 of the TDD frame are downlink subframes, subframes 2 , 3 and 4 of the TDD frame are uplink subframes, and subframe 1 of the TDD frame is a special subframe.