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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2009
Georg Zeitler, Munich, DE;
Ralf Koetter, Munich, DE;
Gerhard Bauch, Munich, DE;
Joerg Widmer, Munich, DE;
Georg Zeitler, Munich, DE;
Ralf Koetter, Munich, DE;
Gerhard Bauch, Munich, DE;
Joerg Widmer, Munich, DE;
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A relay station for being operative in a mobile communication system, comprising a receiver for receiving a radio signal from a source, the radio signal comprising symbols representing an encoded information, the encoded information being based on an encoding rule and comprising payload information and redundancy information. The relay station comprising a soft detector for detecting a symbol from the radio signal to obtain soft information, the soft information comprising information on the symbol and reliability information on the information on the symbol. The relay station further comprising a quantizer for quantizing the soft information to obtain quantized soft information and a transmitter for transmitting an information on the quantized soft information to a destination.