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Downlink control channel for relay resource allocation

  • US 9,439,184 B2
  • Filed: 10/13/2014
  • Issued: 09/06/2016
  • 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 signaling on a control channel indicating the allocated resources to the relay base station, wherein the signaling on 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 the control channel is mapped to the subset of PRBs based on a resource allocation type for downlink communications on the backhaul link.

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