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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2011
Balamurali N. Natarajan, Bangalore, IN (US);
Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Bangalore, IN;
Vinod Kumar Ramachandran, Bangalore, IN;
Balamurali N. Natarajan, Bangalore, IN (US);
Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Bangalore, IN;
Vinod Kumar Ramachandran, Bangalore, IN;
Google Technology Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a method for reporting uplink buffer status of a relay station to a base station in a wireless network. The method includes monitoring an uplink buffer of the relay station communicating with the base station, where the uplink buffer comprises data to be transmitted from one or more user terminals to the base station. The method further includes sending an uplink buffer status report from the relay station to the base station, where the uplink buffer status report includes occupancy status information of the monitored uplink buffer and a number of user terminals having data queued up at the relay station to be transmitted to the base station.