Patent 7894388 was granted and assigned to Motorola Solutions on February, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for allocation of channel resources for relay stations operating in a multihop wireless communication system is provided for herein. The method and apparatus includes a signaling protocol between a base station scheduler and a relay station scheduler so as to achieve efficient utilization of the sector channel resources, while minimizing signaling overhead due to base station-relay station scheduler interaction.