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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2007
Dong-ho Kim, Seoul, KR;
Yung-soo Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Yeheskel Bar-ness, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Igor Stanojev, Harrison, NJ (US);
Osvaldo Simeone, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Dong-Ho Kim, Seoul, KR;
Yung-Soo Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Yeheskel Bar-Ness, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Igor Stanojev, Harrison, NJ (US);
Osvaldo Simeone, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (US);
Abstract
A collaborative Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a broadband wireless communication system using a relay station is provided. A transmitting end includes a distance estimator for estimating a distance to a relay station; a controller for determining whether to execute a collaborative HARQ using the estimated distance to the relay station; and a transmitter for, when the execution of the collaborative HARQ is determined and a retransmission request is received from a receiving end, sending a retransmission packet according to a multiple antenna signal processing scheme by constituting a virtual multiple antenna group with the relay station.