# US 2019/0174286 A1 · Electronic device and method for wireless communication > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0174286 A1 - Document ID: US20190174286A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/323,797 - Filed: 2018-05-02 - Published: 2019-06-06 - Earliest claimed: 2017-05-04 - Assignees: Sony Corporation - Inventors: Xin GUO; Chen SUN - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190174286A1 ## CPC - H04W 4/46: for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V] - H04W 4/80: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication - H04W 4/00: Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor - H04W 24/04: Arrangements for maintaining operational condition - H04W 72/02: Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal - H04W 72/52: based on load - H04W 72/542: using measured or perceived quality - H04W 88/02: Terminal devices - H04W 72/20: Control channels or signalling for resource management - H04W 84/005: {Moving wireless networks} - H04W 92/18: between terminal devices - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless transmission. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit configured to confirm a network structure of a motorcade and determine a link stability measurement configuration corresponding to the network structure, wherein the link stability measurement configuration is used for a receiving-end apparatus of a link to determine the stability of the link according to a receiving state of a transmitted content. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising: processing circuitry, configured to: confirm a network structure of a vehicle platooning; and determine link stability measurement configuration corresponding to the network structure, the link stability measurement configuration being used for determining stability of a link by a receiving end device of the link according to a receiving state with respect to transmission content. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to perform the confirming and the determining in response to at least one of the following: a predetermined period of time has elapsed; a size of the vehicle platooning changes; information interaction requirement between vehicle platooning members changes; and available network transmission resources change. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the network structure of the vehicle platooning comprises one or more of the following: a size of the vehicle platooning; a form of the vehicle platooning; and architecture of network communications. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the architecture of network communications of the vehicle platooning comprises at least one of the following: 1) a vehicle platooning leader broadcasts information to vehicle platooning members, which transmit information to the vehicle platooning leader via single hop links; 2) the vehicle platooning leader broadcasts information to the vehicle platooning members, which transmit information to the vehicle platooning leader via unidirectional links between adjacent vehicle platooning members; 3) the vehicle platooning leader broadcasts information to the vehicle platooning members, and there exist bidirectional links between adjacent vehicle platooning members; 4) adjacent vehicle platooning members interchange information with each other via bidirectional links; 5) the vehicle platooning is divided into a plurality of clusters, and adjacent cluster leaders interchange information via bidirectional links, each cluster being configured using any one of 1) to 4). ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to generate, based on the confirmed network structure, a resource allocation request to be used for requesting a network terminal to allocate network transmission resources for the vehicle platooning. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to estimate a total amount of required resources within the vehicle platooning, and contain the estimated total amount of required resources in the resource allocation request. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to perform the estimating according to at least one of the network structure, a data processing mode of a forwarding node, and an amount of information to be transmitted by vehicle platooning members within unit time, or wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to generate, based on the estimated total amount of required resources, one or more semi-persistent scheduling configuration requests as the resource allocation request. ### Claim 8 (canceled) ### Claim 9 (depends on 5) The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, the resource allocation request comprises an identifier of architecture of network communications of the vehicle platooning and information of a size of the vehicle platooning. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to determine, based on the network structure, an amount of information to be transmitted by vehicle platooning members within unit time, and wherein there is a correspondence between the network structure and the amount of information to be transmitted by the vehicle platooning members within unit time. ### Claim 11 (depends on 5) The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to adjust the network structure of the vehicle platooning based on the network transmission resources actually allocated by the network terminal, and allocate transmission resources within the vehicle platooning based on the adjusted network structure. ### Claim 12 (depends on 5) The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to acquire, from the network terminal, an adjustable range of the allocated network transmission resources, and notify the vehicle platooning members of the adjustable range when allocating the network transmission resources to the vehicle platooning members. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to acquire the link stability measurement configuration from a network terminal, or determine the link stability measurement configuration based on a pre-stored correspondence between the network structure and the link stability measurement configuration. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the link stability measurement configuration comprises a correspondence between a link transmission mode and link stability. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The electronic apparatus according to claim 14, wherein, the link transmission mode comprises the number of times of performing transmission on the link within a predetermined period of time, and the link stability comprises the number or a ratio of times of successful reception within a fixed length of time. ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to determine, according to the transmission resources allocated for each link, the link stability measurement configuration for the link to be provided to corresponding vehicle platooning members. ### Claim at position 17 17-19. (canceled) ### Claim 20 An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising: processing circuitry, configured to: perform measurement of link stability based on link stability measurement configuration for a link, wherein a receiving end of the link is a vehicle where the electronic apparatus is located, and a transmitting end of the link is another vehicle in a vehicle platooning; and trigger a corresponding event in response to a result of the measurement. ### Claim at position 19 21-22. (canceled) ### Claim 23 (depends on 20) The electronic apparatus according to claim 20, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to generate an adjust request to be transmitted to the transmitting end of the link, in the case that the resource configuration adjustment is within an adjustable range, and generate an adjust request to be transmitted to a vehicle platooning leader for the vehicle where the electronic apparatus is located, in the case that the resource configuration adjustment is not within the adjustable range. ### Claim at position 21 24-26. (canceled) ### Claim 27 An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising: processing circuitry, configured to: acquire a parameter related to sensing operations of vehicle platooning members; and generate, based on the parameter, sensing configuration for a plurality of vehicle platooning members in a vehicle platooning, wherein the plurality of vehicle platooning members perform coordinated sensing based on the sensing configuration. ### Claim at position 23 28-31. (canceled) ### Claim 32 (depends on 27) The electronic apparatus according to claim 27, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to determine, based on a result of the coordinated sensing, a location of a user of the sensed spectrum with respect to the vehicle platooning. ### Claim 33 A method for wireless communications, comprising: confirming a network structure of a vehicle platooning; and determining link stability measurement configuration corresponding to the network structure, the link stability measurement configuration being used for determining stability of a link by a receiving end device of the link according to a receiving state with respect to transmission content. ### Claim at position 26 34-35. (canceled)