Two-hop wireless communication system, relay device, source device, transmission method, and computer program

摘要

A transmission method for use in a two-hop wireless communication system, the system comprising a source apparatus, a destination apparatus and an intermediate apparatus, said source apparatus being operable to transmit information along two links forming a communication path extending from the source apparatus to the destination apparatus via the intermediate apparatus, and the intermediate apparatus being operable to receive information from the source apparatus and to transmit the received information to the destination apparatus, the system having access to a time-frequency format for use in assigning available transmission frequency bandwidth during a discrete transmission interval, said format defining a plurality of transmission windows within such an interval, each window occupying a different part of that interval and having a frequency bandwidth profile within said available transmission frequency bandwidth over its part of that interval, each said window being assignable for such a transmission interval to said source or intermediate apparatus for use in transmission, the method comprising: employing said format to transmit information along the path as two successive transmission signals, link by link, said signals being transmitted using different transmission windows of a particular such transmission interval.