Apparatus and method for controlling device-to-device communication
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsMasaki Inokuchi, Kazushi Muraoka
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Abstract
An apparatus (1 or 3) determines a device-to-device (D2D) radio resource to be allocated to one or more D2D transmissions from at least one remote terminal (1) to a first relay terminal (2) while considering a quality metric of an uplink from the first relay (2) terminal to a base station (3). In this way, for example, it is possible to contribute to avoiding inconsistency of performance between sidelink transmission from the remote terminal to the relay terminal and uplink transmission from the relay terminal to the base station.
Claims20
An apparatus for controlling device-to-device communication, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to determine, using a quality metric of an uplink from a first relay terminal to a base station, a device-to-device (D2D) radio resource to be allocated to one or more D2D transmissions from at least one remote terminal to the first relay terminal.
A method for controlling device-to-device communication, the method comprising:
- obtaining a quality metric of an uplink from a first relay terminal to a base station;
- and
- determining, using the quality metric of the uplink from the first relay terminal to the base station, a device-to-device (D2D) radio resource to be allocated to one or more D2D transmissions from at least one remote terminal to the first relay terminal.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform a method for controlling device-to-device communication, wherein the method comprises:
- obtaining a quality metric of an uplink from a first relay terminal to a base station;
- and
- determining using the quality metric of the uplink from the first relay terminal to the base station, a device-to-device (D2D) radio resource to be allocated to one or more D2D transmissions from at least one remote terminal to the first relay terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.