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US 10,477,380 B2Granted
Base station and radio terminal
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Adachi, Takahiro Saiwai, Henry Chang
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Abstract
A base station according to a present embodiment is a base station configured to manage a cell, and comprises: a controller configured to transmit, if a relay terminal configured to relay data by direct communication between a remote terminal and a network is not present in a vicinity of a radio terminal located within the cell, control information to the radio terminal. The control information is information for starting transmission of a discovery signal for discovering another radio terminal that can be the relay UE.
Claims9
A base station configured to manage a cell, comprising:
- a controller configured to transmit, if a report indicating that a relay terminal configured to relay data by direct communication between a remote terminal and a network is not present in a vicinity of a radio terminal located within the cell or a report indicating that the relay terminal become not present in the vicinity, is received from the radio terminal, control information to the radio terminal, wherein
- the control information is information for starting transmission of a discovery signal for discovering another radio terminal that can be the relay terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.