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Downlink control channel for relay resource allocation

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  • US 8,861,424 B2
  • Filed: 07/02/2010
  • Issued: 10/14/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for wireless communications, comprising:

  • allocating resources of a backhaul link between a donor base station and a relay base station to the relay base station for communicating with the donor base station; and

    transmitting a control channel indicating the allocated resources to the relay base station, wherein the control channel is transmitted on a subset of physical resource blocks (PRBs) of subframes assigned for downlink communications on the backhaul link, and wherein a size of the control channel is aligned with a bandwidth-dependent resource block group (RBG) size.

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