| CPC H04W 16/26 (2013.01) | 15 Claims |
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1. An apparatus configured to generate a relay transmission in an environment to a second radio node for a transmission attempt from a first radio node, the first and second radio nodes being located in the environment, the apparatus being external to the first radio node and to the second radio node and comprising:
a radio interface configured to receive radio channel data of the environment and to generate data including radio transmissions for transmission into the environment;
a monitoring interface;
at least one environment sensor configured to observe, without use of detections of signals of communications between the first and second radio nodes, a current physical state of the environment in which the first and second radio nodes are located; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the radio interface and the monitoring interface, the processor configured to:
update or generate a model characterizing the environment occupied by the first radio node and the second radio node based, at least partially, on data that represents the current physical state observed by the at least one environment sensor and that is received from the at least one environment sensor via the monitoring interface;
observe, via the radio interface, an indication of an attempt of the first radio node to communicate with the second radio node;
use the model to predict presence, at a future point in time of a condition that will be suboptimal for signal transmission between the first and second radio nodes; and
based on the prediction and without observing a presently extant condition for suboptimality of signal transmissions between the first radio node and the second radio node, respond to the observed indication of the attempt by initiating the relaying, via the radio interface, of the attempt of the first radio node to communicate with the second radio node.
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