公开(公告)号：US11075687B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-27

申请号：US16487955

申请日：2018-03-22

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Jing Zhu ,  Nageen Himayat ,  Clara Q. Li ,  Sasha Sirotkin ,  Candy Yiu ,  Ehsan Aryafar

IPC: H04B7/155 ,  H04W16/26 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate a first set of one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages to create a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) and RRC entity at a donor Fifth Generation evolved NodeB (DgNB), and to generate a second set of one or more RRC messages to create a radio link control (RLC) entity at a serving relay node (RN) to couple with the DgNB in a multi-hop relay network, and a memory to store the first set of one or more RRC messages or the second set of one or more RRC messages.