Discovery and establishment of communication groups for wireless vehicular communications
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDave CAVALCANTI, Ana Lucia PINHEIRO
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Abstract
The discovery and establishment of communication groups is described for wireless vehicular communications. Some embodiments include receiving a registration request from a user equipment (UE) in a vehicular environment to provide services over a wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) basic service set (WBSS) in wireless channels 5 at a vehicular proximity services (ProSe) function, deciding at the ProSe function to authorize registration of the UE to provide services over the WBSS, and sending a registration response from the ProSe function confirming WBSS information to be used for the services after deciding to authorize the UE.
Claims20
-21. (canceled)
A machine-readable medium having instructions thereon that when operated on by the machine cause the machine to perform operations comprising;
- receiving a registration request from a user equipment (UE) in a vehicular environment to provide services over a wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) basic service set (WBSS) in wireless channels at a vehicular proximity services (ProSe) function;
- deciding at the ProSe function to authorize registration of the UE to provide services over the WBSS;
- and
- sending a registration response from the ProSe function confirming WBSS information to be used for the services after deciding to authorize the UE.
The medium of claim 23, wherein the wireless channels are 802.11p channels.
Processing circuitry of a user equipment (UE) in a vehicular environment, the processing circuitry to:
- receive an announcement of availability of a wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) basic service set (WBSS) at the UE from a vehicular environment proximity services (ProSe) Function, the announcement including a list of services provided by the announced WBSS;
- determine at the UE whether the UE is subscribed to a listed service of the announced WBSS;
- and
- start operation by the UE in the announced WBSS if the UE is subscribed by joining the WBSS without sending a response to the ProSe Function.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for receiving a message including a Proximity Services (ProSe) capability indication to indicate at least one ProSe capability of a user equipment (UE) in a vehicular environment;
- means for storing the capability indication;
- means for providing the capability information to a ProSe functionality to authorize capabilities indicated by the capability information;
- means for generating a message to the UE including a ProSe authorized indication to indicate that the UE is authorized to use ProSe to communicate with other UEs in the vehicular environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.