US Patent 11632771 Apparatus, base station and methods allowing reliable wireless communication

An apparatus configured to operate in a wireless communication network by generating and transmitting a first wireless signal using a resource element allocated to the apparatus is configured to receive a second wireless signal and to determine that the second wireless signal is to be forwarded within the wireless communication network. The apparatus is configured to transmit a third wireless signal based on the second wireless signal instead of the first wireless signal using the allocated resource element of the wireless communication network.