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Method and apparatus at the physical and link layer for mobile communications

  • US 9,942,818 B2
  • Filed: 01/06/2017
  • Issued: 04/10/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a cellular telecommunications network, a radio base station to control a user equipment (UE) and a plurality of small-node devices, the radio base station comprising:

  • a macro-base-station-to-the-UE (BS2UE) communication transmitter/receiver exchanges user-plane and first control-plane data with the UE using a wireless BS2UE communication link;

    a macro-base-station-to-the-small-node-device (BS2D) communication transmitter/receiver exchanges second control-plane data with at least one of the plurality of small-node devices using a BS2D communication link; and

    a small-node-device-to-the-UE (D2UE) control processor controls an establishment and also a release/reconfiguration/handover of a D2UE communication link through a first control-plane data and/or a second control-plane data transmitted to at least one of the UE and the plurality of small-node devices using one of the BS2UE and BS2D communication links,wherein data in the D2UE communication link is scrambled by a sequence specific to a mobile station.

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