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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2007
Sean Cai, San Diego, CA (US);
Ling Xu, Shenzhen, CN;
ZTE Corporation, , CN;
Abstract
A method for updating a connection relationship of a wireless relay station, comprises the following steps of: (a) a wireless relay station RSalready connecting to a wireless communication network group comprising a base station and wireless relay stations subjected to the base station, and if determining that the connection relationship of RSneeds to be changed, selecting a target node; (b) instructing RSto update the connection to the target node, and after receiving the instructions, RSstarting a connection update, establishing a wireless link to a new node and releasing no longer used resource in an existing data tunnel. The present invention can fulfill the update of the connection relationship of a wireless relay station, and can take steps to further guarantee the service suspension time of the terminals and RSs subjected to the wireless relay station is the shortest.