CPC H04W 72/0446 (2013.01) | 8 Claims |
1. A method for an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) wireless network, comprising:
determining, by an IAB node comprising a mobile termination (MT) block and a co-located distributed unit (DU) block, two slot format indications (SFIs) by configuring the co-located DU block, the two SFIs indications comprising a first SFI that indicates a resource availability for communicating with a parent node and a second SFI that indicates a soft resource availability for communicating with a child node, wherein each of the two SFIs comprise at least one RRC-configured slot formats; and
transmitting the two SFI indications to a second DU block;
the method further comprising configuring a first DU block of the IAB wireless network with a plurality of slot format lists, each list of the plurality of slot format lists corresponding to one child link of the first DU;
wherein each child link is configured with a slot format combination based on a multi-slot scheduling mechanism.
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