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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jing Zhu, Portland, OR (US);
Nageen Himayat, Fremont, CA (US);
Clara Q. Li, Beaverton, OR (US);
Sasha Sirotkin, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Candy Yiu, Portland, OR (US);
Ehsan Aryafar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate a first set of one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages to create a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) and RRC entity at a donor Fifth Generation evolved NodeB (DgNB), and to generate a second set of one or more RRC messages to create a radio link control (RLC) entity at a serving relay node (RN) to couple with the DgNB in a multi-hop relay network, and a memory to store the first set of one or more RRC messages or the second set of one or more RRC messages.