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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2014
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sana Sfar, Redmond, WA (US);
Prabakar R. Chitrapu, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Philip J. Pietraski, Jericho, NY (US);
Alexander Reznik, Titusvill, NJ (US);
Eldad M. Zeira, Huntington, NY (US);
Mihaela C. Beluri, Jericho, NY (US);
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus may be used in cooperative relays with incremental redundancy (IR) and distributed spatial multiplexing. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may listen to the base station (BS) transmission during a first phase of the communication, and use cooperation between a relay station (RS) and the BS for the data transmission during a second phase to improve performance. During the second phase, both the BS and the RS may transmit data to the WTRU, using either distributed Space Time Block Codes/Space Frequency Block Codes (STBC/SFBC) or distributed spatial multiplexing.