RELAY STATION FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved concept for relaying. Ž<P>SOLUTION: The relay station 100 operative in a mobile communication system comprises a receiver 110 for receiving a radio signal from a source, the radio signal comprising symbols representing encoded information which is based on an encoding rule and comprising payload information and redundancy information. The relay station 100 comprises a soft information detector 120 for detecting a symbol from the radio signal to obtain soft information which comprises information on the symbol and reliability information on the information on the symbol. The relay station 100 further comprises a quantizer 130 for quantizing the soft information to obtain quantized soft information and a transmitter 140 for transmitting information on the quantized soft information to a destination. Ž<P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT Ž