Patent ID: 8665761

Claim:
A method of relaying data in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving data, transmitted over a first subframe from a base station, over a second subframe; and relaying the data to a user equipment over a third subframe which is placed after one or more subframes from the second subframe, wherein at least any one of the first and the second subframes is a non-detection subframe to which the user equipment does not attempt data detection, and wherein the second and the third subframes are included in a Time Division Duplex (TDD) radio frame comprising a plurality of subframes, and the TDD radio frame has one of the configurations shown in Table A below, TABLE A Downlink- UL-DL to-Uplink Con- Switch-point Subframe number figuration periodicity 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 5 ms D S U U U D S U U U 1 5 ms D S U U D D S U U D 2 5 ms D S U D D D S U D D 3 10 ms D S U U U D D D D D 4 10 ms D S U U D D D D D D 5 10 ms D S U D D D D D D D 6 5 ms D S U U U D S U U D wherein in the Table A, ‘D’ means a downlink subframe, ‘U’ means an uplink subframe, and ‘S’ means a special subframe.