ENHANCING F1 APPLICATION PROTOCOL (F1-AP) INTERFACES IN A MULTI-HOP RELAY NETWORK WITH CENTRALIZED UNIT (CU) AND DISTRIBUTED UNIT (DU)

摘要

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for delivering a radio resource control layer (RRC) message between a donor next generation NodeB (dgNB) centralized unit (CU) and a user equipment (UE) by a relay RRC message between a dgNB distributed unit (DU) and the dgNB CU through an adaption layer operated on the dgNB DU. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.