| CPC H04W 28/06 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0006 (2013.01); H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 80/02 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A communication apparatus for a donor distributed unit (DU) comprising at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor, wherein the programming instructions instruct the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving first configuration information from a donor centralized unit (CU) wherein the first configuration information indicates that when one or more respective values of one or more first fields in a data packet correspondingly meets one or more respective first value ranges, the data packet is transmitted through a first channel between the donor DU and a child node, the first configuration information further indicates that when one or more respective values of one or more second fields in the data packet correspondingly meets one or more respective second value ranges, the data packet is transmitted through a second channel that is between the donor DU and a child integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node, and the data packet meets only one of 1) the one or more respective first value ranges and 2) the one or more respective second value ranges; and
storing the first configuration information.
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