Communications device

A communications device comprising

• a transmitter for transmitting signals representing device-to-device communications to a second communications device across a wireless access interface,
• a receiver for receiving signals representing device-to-device communication from the second communications device across the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface including a control resource for the communication of control data between communications device and a data resource for the communication of user data between communications devices, the control data providing scheduling assignments for the allocation of resources of the data resource, and
• a controller for controlling the transmitter and the receiver to receive in the control region signals representing an indication of interference detected in one or more of the resources of the control resource and the data resource by the second communications device, and to transmit a scheduling assignment message indicating a set of resources of the data resources to the second communications device, wherein the set of resources does not include the resources indicated in the signals representing an indication of detected interference received from the second communications device.

15-16. (canceled)

Circuitry for a communications device of a wireless communications system, the circuitry comprising

• transmitter circuitry for transmitting signals representing device-to-device communications to a second communications device across a wireless access interface,
• receiver circuitry for receiving signals representing device-to-device communication from the second communications device across the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface including a control resource for communicating control data between communications devices and a data resource for communicating user data between communications devices, the control data providing scheduling assignments for the allocation of resources of the data resource, and
• controller circuitry for controlling the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to perform interference detection in one or more of the control resource and the data resource, and to transmit in the control resources, in response to detecting interference in one or more of the control resource and the data resource, signals representing an indication of the detected interference to the second communications device.

Circuitry for a communications device of a wireless communications system, the circuitry comprising

• transmitter circuitry for transmitting signals representing device-to-device communications to a second communications device across a wireless access interface,
• receiver circuitry for receiving signals representing device-to-device communication from the second communications device across the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface including a control resource for the communication of control data between communications device and a data resource for the communication of user data between communications devices, the control data providing scheduling assignments for the allocation of resources of the data resource, and
• controller circuitry for controlling the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to receive in the control region signals representing an indication of interference detected in one or more of the resources of the control resource and the data resource by the second communications device, and to transmit a scheduling assignment message indicating a set of resources of the data resources to the second communications device, wherein the set of resources does not include the resources indicated in the signals representing an indication of detected interference received from the second communications device.