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Relay station for a mobile communication system

US8358679B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

NTT DOCOMO, INC. · JP

Inventors

Georg Zeitler · Munich, DE
Ralf Koetter · Champaign, US
Gerhard Bauch · Starnberg, DE
Joerg Widmer · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 21, 2009
Grant date	Jan 22, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 15, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04B7/15592
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A relay station for being operative in a mobile communication system, comprising a receiver for receiving a radio signal from a source, the radio signal comprising symbols representing an encoded information, the encoded information being based on an encoding rule and comprising payload information and redundancy information. The relay station comprising a soft detector for detecting a symbol from the radio signal to obtain soft information, the soft information comprising information on the symbol and reliability information on the information on the symbol. The relay station further comprising a quantizer for quantizing the soft information to obtain quantized soft information and a transmitter for transmitting an information on the quantized soft information to a destination.

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