Indoor personal relay

摘要

The embodiments herein disclose an indoor personal relay which has a wireless interface with the BS, which is effective in both cost and technology terms. The indoor personal relay, as disclosed herein is an estimate and forward relay. The relay 101 as disclosed herein does not perform any additional channel decoding/encoding on the data that it receives from the UE or BS. Embodiments disclosed herein enable the relevant UEs to have a high SINR link with the relay. This, in turn, translates to a better effective link quality between the UE and BS and higher indoor rates, which otherwise may have been not as good as a consequence of poor direct link between the UE and the BS. This relay is effectively transparent to the UE. The deployment of relays also implies minimal impact on UE IOT.

主权项

1. A method to enable a relay to associate with a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication network, said method comprising of:
powering on said relay; said relay searching for a best BS; said relay attaching to said best BS; said relay sending a list of Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) user equipment (UEs) of said relay to said best BS; said best BS checking with a neighboring BS when at least one of said CSG UEs are attached with said neighboring BS, when said best BS finds that none of said CSG UEs are attached to said best BS; said best BS instructing said relay to hand over said relay to said neighboring BS, when said neighboring BS confirms a presence of at least one CSG UE attached to said neighboring BS and when association criteria are satisfied; a UE in a coverage area of said relay measuring received signal strengths from a plurality of base stations (BSs); said UE in said coverage area of said relay measuring received signal strengths from at least one relay when said at least one relay has been instructed by its serving BS to transmit a unique identifier of said relay, cell barring message, and system information; and said UE in said coverage area of said relay checking for a cell barring message in the transmission of said unique identifier.