Method and apparatus for improving proximity service discovery in a wireless communication system

A method for handling peer discovery resources, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a configuration of peer discovery resources from a system information message of a cell, wherein the configuration contains multiple sets of peer discovery resources and different sets of peer discovery resources are used by the UE to receive peer discovery signals for different uses;
• determining, by the UE, which set of peer discovery resources to receive peer discovery signals;
• and
• receiving, by the UE, the peer discovery signals at a set of peer discovery resources determined by the UE.

A communication device to handle peer discovery resources, the communication device comprising:

• a control circuit;
• a processor installed in the control circuit;
• and
• a memory installed in the control circuit and operatively coupled to the processor,
• wherein the processor is configured to execute a program code stored in memory to handle peer discovery resources by:
• receiving a configuration of peer discovery resources from a system information message of a cell, wherein the configuration contains multiple sets of peer discovery resources and different sets of peer discovery resources are used by the communication device to receive peer discovery signals for different uses;
• determining which set of peer discovery resources to receive peer discovery signals;
• and
• receiving the peer discovery signals at a set of peer discovery resources determined by the communication device.

A method for handling peer discovery resources, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a configuration of peer discovery resources from a system information message of a cell, wherein the configuration contains multiple sets of peer discovery resources and different sets of peer discovery resources are used by the UE to transmit peer discovery signals for different uses;
• determining, by the UE, which set of peer discovery resources to transmit a peer discovery signal;
• and
• transmitting, by the UE, the peer discovery signal at a peer discovery resource in a set of peer discovery resources determined by the UE.