US 2015/0092710 A1 · METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION

Abstract

A method includes scheduling at least one resource for a Device-to-Device (D2D) transmission control channel (DCCH) carrying a D2D control information (D2DCI) message, transmitting, by a first UE, the DCCH on the at least one DCCH resource to at least one second UE, scheduling at least one resource for a D2D data channel (DDCH), and transmitting, by the first UE, the DDCH on the at least one DDCH resource to the at least one second UE. A UE includes one or multiple antenna, and a processing circuitry configured to schedule at least one resource for a DCCH, transmit the DCCH on the at least one DCCH resource, to at least one second UE through the one or more multiple antenna, schedule at least one resource for a DDCH, and transmit the DDCH on the at least one DDCH resource, to the at least one second UE.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

scheduling at least one resource for a Device-to-Device (D2D) transmission control channel (DCCH) carrying a D2D control information (D2DCI) message;
transmitting, by a first UE, the DCCH on the at least one DCCH resource to at least one second UE;
scheduling at least one resource for a D2D data channel (DDCH);
and
transmitting, by the first UE, the DDCH on the at least one DDCH resource to the at least one second UE.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/500,463Filed 29 Sep 2014

Priority

1 Oct 2013

Published

2 Apr 2015

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

H04W 72/20
Local resource management: control channels or signalling for resource management
H04L 5/0005
Two-dimensional division: time-frequency
H04L 5/0053
Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path: allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
H04W 76/14
Connection setup: direct-mode setup

Method and apparatus for device-to-device communication

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Abstract

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