METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSPARENT RELAY HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ)

摘要

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for a relay station for use in a communication system with a base station and user equipment (UE). The relay station may decode and forward a data packet between the base station and the UE that the relay station services in which the relay station does not establish a direct link with the UE. Further, the relay station indicates successful decoding of the data packet to the base station such that if the base station receives information indicating successful decoding of the data packet from the relay station, the base station terminates a HARQ transmission on a direct link between the base station and the UE such that HARQ retransmission time is extended compared to direct communications between the base station and the UE.