Patent attributes
An electronic device for use in a machine type communication (MTC) relay device includes circuitry having: a receive signal path to receive data from at least one MTC device; and a transmit signal path to forward processed data, based on the data, to an evolved NodeB (eNB), wherein at least one of: (a) the data is received via Device-to-Device (D2D) sidelink; (b) the MTC relay device is a relay node and the data is received via a relaying link; or (c) the MTC relay device is a multi-radio access technology (multi-RAT) capable small cell device and the data is received via WiFi, Bluetooth, Long-Term Evolution-Unlicensed (LTE-Unlicensed), or mmWave communication.