Alcatel

Jacques Antoine

Armelle Wautier

Patrick Georges Charriere

Jérôme Brouet

Jean-Claude Dany

Lionel Husson

Nicolas Paul

J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Brouet

A method of decoding a received data word (r) having been transmitted over a radio communication channel, the corresponding sent data word (m) having been encoded as a code word (c), the method includes: multiplying of the received data word by a parity-check matrix, and if the result of the multiplication is zero: performing an algebraic decoding of the received data word without error correction, otherwise performing an error correction by estimating the transmission error, subtracting the estimated error from the received data word, and performing an algebraic decoding of the result of the subtraction, wherein for estimation of the transmission error is used to identify an approximate location of potential errors and the Viterbi algorithm is only applied for these locations, thus avoiding iterations in error-free areas.

Method of decoding a data word

In a method of communicating with a mobile station in a cell of a cellular telecommunication network having a microcell layer with a plurality of microcells each comprising at least one relay station and a macrocell layer with a macrocell covering a plurality of microcells, a call in the microcell layer is effected between the mobile station and a set of relay stations, the number of which is a cardinal number at least equal to two, allocated to the call. The relay stations allocated to the call can change during the call, and the call is handed over from the microcell layer to the macrocell layer when it is not possible to allocate to the call a number of relay stations corresponding to the cardinal number. A base transceiver station for implementing the invention is also disclosed.

Handover from a microcell layer to a macrocell layer in a two-layer cell of a telecommunication network

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Chatillon, France

Jacques Antoine