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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2010
Mingkai Nan, Beijing, CN;
MingKai Nan, Beijing, CN;
Vodafone IP Licensing Limited, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;
Abstract
In a telecommunications network including a plurality of mobile terminals in communication with a network base station, and a plurality of relay nodes configured to assist the base station with data transmissions between the base station and one or more of said plurality of mobile terminals, a method of enabling communication resource reuse amongst the plurality of said relay nodes, the method comprising: predefining a plurality of communication resource sets, each resource set comprising one or more communication resource elements, the communication resource sets arranged so that each relay node can receive data in a predefined receiving resource set and transmit data in a predefined transmission resource set; determining which of two or more relay nodes are spatially separated from one another; and configuring at least two of the two or more spatially separated relay nodes to use the same communication resource sets.