Scheduling and handover of a vehicular connection with periodic messaging

A method comprising:

• receiving at a source network node of a wireless network, from a mobile device, an indication of a requirement for transmission resources having periodicity;
• transmitting, to the mobile device via the source network node, an assignment of a first periodical scheduling configuration for a device-to-device connection;
• transmitting, to the mobile device, an indication to begin use of the periodically recurring radio resources;
• and
• handing over responsibility for providing radio resources for the device-to-device connection from the source network node to a target network node such that periodicity of the recurring radio resources after handover is maintained.

A method comprising:

• receiving at a device, a first periodical scheduling configuration provided from a source network node for device-to-device connection;
• receiving at the device, an indication to begin use of the first periodical scheduling configuration for communications between devices;
• receiving at the device a handover command including a second periodical scheduling configuration provided from a target source network node for a device-to-device connection;
• and
• broadcasting via the device device-to-device communications using the second periodical scheduling configuration while maintaining periodicity.