Broadcast relaying through cooperative multi-channel transmission

摘要

Systems and methods for relaying in broadcast single-frequency networks are disclosed herein. A single-frequency network may be formed, in part, using transmitters that receive data via a cooperating relay channel instead of a station-transmitter link. In some embodiments, the second channel may use a portion of its transmission time to relay information to a single-frequency network transmitter using time division multiplexing. In other embodiments, the second channel may encode the relayed information on the second layer using layer division multiplexing.