Patent attributes
Aspects of the disclosure relate to repeater controlled by a base station. The repeater receives control signaling including control information in association with traffic relayed through the repeater, between a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device, the repeater obtains a time division duplex state from the control information, obtains a fronthaul-link transmission control indicator (TCI) state index from the control information, obtains an access-link TCI state index from the control information, obtains a time domain resource allocation from the control information, and configures a relay unit of the repeater to communicate the traffic between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device based the control information comprising at least one of: the time division duplex state, the fronthaul-link TCI state index, the access-link TCI state index, and the time domain resource allocation. The base station sends the control signaling to control the repeater.