Method of relayed wireless transmission
First Claim
1. A method of transmission between a first station and a second station via one of a plurality of relay stations, said method comprising:
- (a) transmitting at least one signal to a plurality of candidate relay stations for communicating between a first station and a second station;
(b) at each relay station, measuring a received signal resulting from said transmitted signal and transmitting a report of this measurement to one of the first and second stations;
(c) upon receipt of the reports, choosing a relay station to be used, based on said measurement;
(d) the second station transmitting a signal to the relay station;
(e) each relay station measuring the signal received from the second station; and
(f) each relay station selecting a time to transmit its report, such that more favorable reports are transmitted more expeditiously than less favorable reports,wherein, for each relay station, the time selected to transmit its report is based not only on its measurement of the first received signal, but also on its measurement of the signal transmitted by the second station.
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Abstract
A light-weight relay selection mechanism selects the most likely “best” relay station for data transmission from a given source station S to an access point AP using the Initial Receive Signal Strength (IRSS) to infer the future data transmission rate. In the initialization stage, the access point AP constructs a table mapping the IRSSs of receivers to eight levels of transmission rate. In the relay selection stage, relay candidates R measure the IRSSs for the source station S and access point AP and report their IRSS levels to the AP. A contention-based mechanism is dedicated to enabling the candidate with higher IRSS levels to report earlier. With this mechanism, the access point AP is able to select the station with the highest estimated data transmission rate.
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16 Claims
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1. A method of transmission between a first station and a second station via one of a plurality of relay stations, said method comprising:
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(a) transmitting at least one signal to a plurality of candidate relay stations for communicating between a first station and a second station; (b) at each relay station, measuring a received signal resulting from said transmitted signal and transmitting a report of this measurement to one of the first and second stations; (c) upon receipt of the reports, choosing a relay station to be used, based on said measurement; (d) the second station transmitting a signal to the relay station; (e) each relay station measuring the signal received from the second station; and (f) each relay station selecting a time to transmit its report, such that more favorable reports are transmitted more expeditiously than less favorable reports, wherein, for each relay station, the time selected to transmit its report is based not only on its measurement of the first received signal, but also on its measurement of the signal transmitted by the second station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of transmission between a first station and a second station via one of a plurality of candidate relay stations, said method comprising:
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(a) transmitting at least one signal from at least one of a first station and a second station to each of plural candidate relay stations for relaying of future signals between said first and second stations; (b) at each of said plural candidate relay stations, measuring an initial receive signal strength for said signals transmitted from said at least one of first and second stations; (c) at each of at least some of said plural candidate relay stations, transmitting a received signal quality report to at least one of said first and second stations based on an initial receive signal quality measured for said signals transmitted from said at least one first and second stations at respectively corresponding different locally selected times such that more favorable reports are transmitted sooner than less favorable reports, wherein, for each candidate relay station, the time selected to transmit its report is based on signals received from said at least one first and second stations; and (d) selecting one of said candidate relay stations for future signals between said first and second stations at one of said first and second stations based at least in part on a signal quality report received from the selected candidate relay station. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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