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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2014
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Ivana Maric, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dennis Hui, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The proposed layer solution defines two or more layers of relay nodes to convey traffic data from a source node to a destination node. All of the nodes in a given layer were selected for that layer because they each satisfied a signal quality requirement specified for that layer, where all relay nodes defined in one layer simultaneously start transmitting in response to a received transmission. Due to the layered approach, the destination node may be configured to decode only the traffic data relayed by the relay nodes in the immediately preceding (final) layer while treating any remaining received signals as noise. As a result, only those access nodes most likely to significantly contribute to and improve the signal quality of traffic data received at the destination node are selected as relay nodes for a particular source-destination node pair.