# US 10,313,852 B2 · Method and device for selecting distributed antenna in vehicle-to-vehicle communication system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,313,852 B2 - Document ID: US10313852B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/750,356 - Filed: 2016-04-08 - Published: 2018-08-09 - Granted: 2019-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2015-08-06 - Assignees: LG Electronics Inc. - Applicants: LG Electronics Inc. - Inventors: Heejin Kim; Jiwon Kang; Kitae Kim; Kilbom Lee; Kungmin Park - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10313852B2 ## CPC - H04W 4/46: for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V] - H04B 7/022: Site diversity; Macro-diversity (using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04) - H04B 7/06: at the transmitting station - H04B 7/0602: {using antenna switching (H04B7/0686 takes precedence; antenna beam directivity switching H01Q3/24)} - H04B 7/063: {Parameters other than those covered in groups H04B7/0623 - H04B7/0634, e.g. channel matrix rank or transmit mode selection} - H04B 7/0639: {Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection} - H04B 7/08: at the receiving station - H04W 72/02: Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal - H04W 88/02: Terminal devices - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - H04B: TRANSMISSION ## Abstract The present invention relates to a method for a terminal selecting a distributed antenna in a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. Here, the method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from all the terminals in a group in which the terminal is included, channel space information for each of the terminals; determining a DU selection on the basis of the received channel space information for each of the terminals; and transmitting the determined DU selection information. Here, the terminal may determine all of the DU selection for each of every terminal in the group, and transmit each determined DU selection information to the corresponding terminal. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for selecting a distributed unit (DU) by a user equipment (UE) in a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication system comprising: receiving channel spatial information about respective UEs from all UEs contained in a group in which the UE is included; deciding DU selection on the basis of the received channel spatial information about the respective UEs; and transmitting the decided DU selection information, wherein the UE decides DU selection for each of all the UEs contained in the group, and transmits the decided DU selection information of each UE to the corresponding UE. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the channel spatial information about the respective UEs is based on a DU selection combination capable of being adjusted by the respective UEs. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the channel spatial information about the respective UEs is information about some preferred DU selections selected from among the adjustable DU selection combinations. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the user equipment (UE) configured to receive the channel spatial information about the respective UEs from all the UEs is a header UE of the group. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method according to claim 4, wherein the header UE is designated by a base station (BS). ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the channel spatial information includes at least one of an AoD (Angle of Departure), a PMI (Precoding Matrix Index), an AoD indicator, an angular spread of clusters, a preferred transmit (Tx) beam index, and a transmit (Tx) correlation matrix. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method according to claim 6, wherein: when the channel spatial information includes the PMI and a final precoder used by the respective UEs is composed of at least two PMIs, the PMI contained in the channel spatial information is identical to some PMIs constructing the final precoder. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method according to claim 7, wherein the some PMIs correspond to a PMI associated with a broad beam. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The method according to claim 6, wherein the UE decides DU selection for each UE in a manner that channel spatial correlation between all the UEs contained in the group is gradually reduced on the basis of the transmit (Tx) correlation matrix. ### Claim 10 (depends on 6) The method according to claim 6, wherein: when the preferred transmit (Tx) beam index is contained in the channel spatial information, the UE decides DU selection for each UE in a manner that the beam index is gradually elongated in association with all the UEs contained in the group. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein: when all the UEs contained in the group exchange channel spatial information about the respective UEs with one another using broadcasting/multicasting, the respective UEs contained in the group decide only their own DU selection. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the user equipment (UE) receives channel spatial information about the respective UEs contained in the group, only when an event for the group has occurred. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the DU selection is decided on the basis of the number and position of DUs activated in the UE. ### Claim 14 A user equipment (UE) apparatus for selecting a distributed unit (DU) in a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication system comprising: a transceiver module configured to transmit and receive information to and from an external device; and a processor configured to control the transceiver module, wherein the processor controls the transceiver module to receive channel spatial information about respective UEs from all UEs contained in a group in which the UE is included, decides DU selection on the basis of the received channel spatial information about the respective UEs, and transmits the decided DU selection information using the transceiver module, wherein the UE decides DU selection for each of all the UEs contained in the group, and transmits the decided DU selection information of each UE to the corresponding UE. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The user equipment (UE) apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the channel spatial information about the respective UEs is based on a DU selection combination capable of being adjusted by the respective UEs.