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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2020
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for multi-hop relays that may be implemented by advertising first relaying capabilities and a first number of hops to reach a remote wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), receiving second relaying capabilities and a second number of hops to reach the remote WTRU from a selected relay WTRU, updating a relay capabilities table based on the second relaying capabilities and the second number of hops, receiving a packet comprising a payload, the packet having a traffic type and further comprising a maximum number of hops, selecting the selected relay WTRU based on the traffic type, the maximum number of hops, and the relay capabilities table, generating a first updated packet comprising the payload, the traffic type and a first updated number of hops that is one less than the maximum number of hops, and transmitting the first updated packet to the selected relay WTRU.