Device-to-device communication management using macrocell communication resources

A method for performing direct device-to-device (D2D) communication between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE using a D2D link in a wireless cellular communication system, the method comprising:

• transmitting a scheduling request to a base station via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the scheduling request requesting uplink resources;
• using the uplink resources allocated by the base station to transmit a D2D buffer status report to the base station, the D2D buffer status report indicating amount of data to be transmitted on the D2D link;
• receiving a first D2D control information from the base station via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the first D2D control information indicating D2D resources allocated by the base station in response to the D2D buffer status report, wherein the D2D resources are a subset of defined uplink resources for the wireless cellular communication system, and the first D2D control information includes:
• time-frequency resource information for the D2D link;
• a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the D2D link;
• and a power control command for the D2D link;
• transmitting a second D2D control information to the second UE via a D2D control channel (D2DCCH) based on the first D2D control information, the second D2D control information including at least a subset of the first D2D control information;
• and
• transmitting the data to the second UE via a D2D data channel (D2DDCH) based on the first D2D control information.

A method for controlling direct device-to-device (D2D) communication performed between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE using a D2D link in a wireless cellular communication system, the method comprising:

• receiving a scheduling request from the first UE via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the scheduling request requesting uplink resources;
• allocating the uplink resources in response to the scheduling request;
• receiving a D2D buffer status report transmitted from the first UE using the uplink resources, the D2D buffer status report indicating amount of data to be transmitted on the D2D link;
• allocating D2D resources in response to the D2D buffer status report;
• and
• transmitting a first D2D control information to the first UE via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the first D2D control information indicating the D2D resources, wherein the D2D resources are a subset of defined uplink resources for the wireless cellular communication system, and the first D2D control information includes:
• time-frequency resource information for the D2D link;
• a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the D2D link;
• and a power control command for the D2D link.