RELAYED TRANSMISSION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method, apparatus, and computer program for controlling relayed communications in a wireless communication system are provided. Assignment of relay terminals to source terminals requesting for a relayed connection to a destination node is carried out in a centralized manner on the basis of relay status information received from candidate relay terminals. The relay status information received from a given candidate relay terminal indicates which source terminals the candidate relay terminal is capable of serving and in which radio communication resources. The assignment of a relay terminal-source terminal pair is carried out with the primary criterion that radio communication resources available for a relayed connection of one or more terminal devices, for which the assignment has not yet been carried out, are not pre-empted.