Communication system and method for supporting direct communication between femto cell and macrocell

摘要

A communication system and method for supporting direct communication between a femto base station and a macro base station are provided. The communication system of the present invention includes at least one macro base station which allocates a resource to one or more user equipments. The communication system also includes at least one femto base station which operates in a base station mode for serving terminals located within a service area of the at least one femto base station and operates in a user equipment mode for communicating with the at least one macro base station using the resource allocated by the at least one macro base station.