# US 2019/0173612 A1 · Communication device and communication method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0173612 A1 - Document ID: US20190173612A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/324,426 - Filed: 2017-07-28 - Published: 2019-06-06 - Earliest claimed: 2016-08-10 - Assignees: Sony Corporation - Applicants: Sony Corporation - Inventors: Ryota KIMURA; Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA; Naoki KUSASHIMA; Hiroki MATSUDA; Hiromasa UCHIYAMA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190173612A1 ## CPC - H04L 5/0044: {Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH} - H04L 1/0026: {Transmission of channel quality indication} - H04L 1/0063: {Single parity check} - H04L 1/1819: {with retransmission of additional or different redundancy} - H04L 5/0048: {Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091)} - H04L 5/0055: {Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861)} - H04L 25/0226: {sounding signals per se} - H04L 27/2607: {Cyclic extensions} - H04W 56/00: Synchronisation arrangements - H04W 56/001: {Synchronization between nodes} - H04W 72/0473: {the resource being transmission power} - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04L 27/2602: {Signal structure} - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract [Object] To provide a communication device that enables degradation in the quality of communication between a base station device and a terminal device to be avoided when a sidelink channel is set. [Solution] There is provided a communication device including: a control unit configured to allocate a predetermined gap to a boundary of a resource of a channel to be used in inter-device communication with a resource other than the resource of the channel in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A communication device comprising: a control unit configured to allocate a predetermined gap to a boundary of a resource of a channel to be used in inter-device communication with a resource other than the resource of the channel in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit sets the channel to be used in the inter-device communication using at least part of an uplink radio resource, a downlink radio resource, and a radio resource of an unlicensed band in the communication system. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The communication device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit allocates the gap to the channel to be used in the inter-device communication only in the downlink radio resource. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit sets the gap at an end of a plurality of unit frequency resources that are continuous in a frequency direction in a case in which the plurality of unit frequency resources that are continuous are associated with a same device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit sets a bandwidth of the gap to an integer multiple of subcarrier spacing to be used in a corresponding unit frequency resource. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit sets the gap at an end of a plurality of unit time resources that are continuous in a time direction in a case in which the plurality of unit time resources that are continuous are associated with a same device. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit performs control of giving notification of a setting of the gap through system information or downlink control information. ### Claim 8 (canceled) ### Claim 9 A communication device comprising: a control unit configured to control communication using a resource to which a predetermined gap is allocated on a boundary of a channel to be used in inter-device communication with a resource other than a resource of the channel in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed. ### Claim 10 A communication device comprising: a control unit configured to perform control of transmission at a time obtained by adding a predetermined offset to a timing designated by a base station when inter-device communication is performed using a downlink radio resource in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The communication device according to claim 10, wherein the control unit performs control of transmission at a time obtained by adding a predetermined offset to a timing designated by a base station when inter-device communication is performed using an uplink radio resource or a radio resource of an unlicensed band in the communication system. ### Claim 12 (canceled) ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The communication device according to claim 10, wherein the control unit performs control of transmission at a time obtained by adding a predetermined offset to a timing designated by a base station when inter-device communication is performed using at least any of an uplink radio resource, a downlink radio resource, or a radio resource of an unlicensed band in the communication system, and an amount of the offset differs in each of the uplink radio resource, the downlink radio resource, and the radio resource of the unlicensed band in the communication system. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The communication device according to claim 13, wherein an amount of the offset when inter-device communication is performed using a radio resource of an unlicensed band is equal to or smaller than an amount of the offset when inter-device communication is performed using a downlink radio resource, and the amount of the offset when inter-device communication is performed using the downlink radio resource is equal to or smaller than an amount of the offset when inter-device communication is performed using an uplink radio resource. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The communication device according to claim 11, wherein, when inter-device communication is further performed using an uplink radio resource in the communication system, an amount of the offset when inter-device communication is performed using a downlink radio resource is set as a value relative to an amount of the offset when inter-device communication is performed using an uplink radio resource. ### Claim 16 A communication device comprising: a control unit configured to set transmission power individually in each of an uplink radio resource, a downlink radio resource, and a radio resource of an unlicensed band when a channel to be used in inter-device communication is set using at least part of the uplink radio resource, the downlink radio resource, and the radio resource of the unlicensed band in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The communication device according to claim 16, wherein the control unit sets transmission power by adding a predetermined offset to a value set when the channel is set using the uplink radio resource when the channel is set using the downlink radio resource. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The communication device according to claim 16, wherein the control unit sets transmission power in accordance with presence or absence of scheduling of a downlink of resources adjacent in a frequency direction when the channel is set using the downlink radio resource. ### Claim 19 (depends on 16) The communication device according to claim 16, wherein the control unit sets transmission power on a basis of path loss of a transmission side and a reception side. ### Claim 20 A communication device comprising: a control unit configured to set a control channel individually in each of an uplink radio resource, a downlink radio resource, and a radio resource of an unlicensed band when a channel to be used in inter-device communication is set using at least part of the uplink radio resource, the downlink radio resource, and the radio resource of the unlicensed band in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) The communication device according to claim 20, wherein, in a case in which an uplink radio resource and a downlink radio resource are configured according to time division duplex (TDD), the control unit sets a timing of HARQ of a sidelink channel in association with a frame configuration of TDD. ### Claim 22 A communication method comprising: allocating a predetermined gap to a boundary of a resource of a channel to be used in inter-device communication with a resource other than the resource of the channel in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed. ### Claim at position 23 23-26. (canceled) ### Claim 27 A communication device comprising: a control unit configured to allocate a predetermined gap to a boundary of resources adjacent in a frequency direction in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are multiplexed in the frequency direction within one frequency channel. ### Claim 28 (depends on 27) The communication device according to claim 27, wherein, in a case in which signals corresponding to the resources adjacent in the frequency direction are signals in a same direction, the control unit does not allocate the predetermined gap to an association of the resources. ### Claim 29 (depends on 27) The communication device according to claim 27, wherein the control unit causes an uplink radio resource and a downlink radio resource to be multiplexed within the one frequency channel. ### Claim 30 (depends on 29) The communication device according to claim 29, wherein the control unit notifies a terminal device of a setting pattern of a link within the one frequency channel. ### Claim 31 (canceled) ### Claim 32 (depends on 30) The communication device according to claim 30, wherein the control unit gives notification of the setting pattern for every predetermined number of subframes. ### Claim 33 (depends on 29) The communication device according to claim 29, wherein the control unit further causes resources of a channel to be used in inter-device communication to be multiplexed within the one frequency channel. ### Claim 34 (depends on 27) The communication device according to claim 27, wherein the control unit sets transmission power in consideration of the predetermined gap. ### Claim 35 A communication control method comprising: allocating a predetermined gap to a boundary of resources adjacent in a frequency direction in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are multiplexed in the frequency direction within one frequency channel.