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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2019
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Mats Folke, Vällingby, SE;
Johnny Karout, Göteborg, SE;
Xinghua Song, Beijing, CN;
Stefano Sorrentino, Solna, SE;
Pontus Wallentin, Linköping, SE;
Stefan Wänstedt, Luleå, SE;
Ali Zaidi, Norrköping, SE;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
Systems and methods relating to a remote wireless device for a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, the remote wireless device is a wireless device that desires to establish a relay connection with a relay wireless device that has relay functionality. The remote wireless device includes a transceiver, a processor, and memory storing instructions executable by the processor whereby the relay wireless device is operable to rank a plurality of candidate relay wireless devices and to report a subset of the plurality of candidate relay wireless devices based on the ranking of the plurality of candidate relay wireless devices to a network node of the cellular communications network via the transceiver.