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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Kiran K. Somasundaram, San Diego, CA (US);
Siddhartha Mallik, San Diego, CA (US);
Anastasios Stamoulis, San Diego, CA (US);
Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US);
Naga Bhushan, San Diego, CA (US);
Dexu Lin, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for associating a user equipment (UE) with a relay in a wireless network are provided. The apparatus determines a relay backhaul link quality of a relay; determines a path loss from a UE to the relay; and compares the relay backhaul link quality to a direct link quality between the UE and a base station, and the path loss to a path loss threshold to determine whether to associate the UE with the relay.