Patent ID: 8675550

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a relay access terminal, a data transmission marked according to a timing period; negotiating a first transmitter format and another timing period for a relay transmission associated with the data transmission; determining a time-mark number corresponding to the another timing period; communicating the first transmitter format, the another timing period and the time-mark number to a source base station and a plurality of additional base stations determined to be subject to interference from the relay transmission, wherein the time-mark number and the another timing period are applied for interference cancellation of signals corresponding to the time-mark number; communicating the relay transmission using the first transmitter format and the another timing period; proposing, via a multicast transmission from the relay access terminal, a second transmitter format for communicating the relay transmission and the another timing period to the source base station and the plurality of additional base stations determined to be subject to interference from the relay transmission; and receiving, at the relay access terminal, an acceptance for communicating the relay transmission using the second transmitter format.