Patent ID: 8265547

Claim:
A mobile device, comprising: a medium access controller; and an antenna configured to: transmit channel quality indicator information to a base station, a first relay node, and a second relay node; receive a first packet from the base station, wherein the first packet is transmitted to the mobile device from the first relay node, wherein first packet resources for the mobile device are distributively scheduled by the first relay node and wherein the first relay node serves the mobile device non-cooperatively using time-frequency resources determined by the first relay node; receive a second packet from the base station, wherein second packet resources for the mobile device are centrally scheduled by the base station using time-frequency resources determined by the base station; receive a third packet from the base station, wherein the third packet is transmitted to the mobile device from the second relay node, wherein third packet resources for the mobile device are centrally scheduled for the second relay node using time-frequency resources determined by the base station and wherein the second relay node serves the mobile device cooperatively by coordinating scheduling information with the base station; and wherein the first packet, the second packet and the third packet are time-division multiplexed.