Methods, infrastructure equipment, and communications devices
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsShin Horng WONG, Basuki PRIYANTO
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Abstract
A method of operating infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, from each of a plurality of communications devices, an indication of at least one radio channel characteristic associated with that device. The infrastructure equipment and the devices together form a subnetwork. Based on the received indications, the infrastructure equipment determines that one or more proximity groups are to be formed, each group including at least two devices having similar channel characteristics. The infrastructure equipment maintains the one or more proximity groups.
Claims25
A method of operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a communications device via a wireless access interface, the method comprising
- receiving, from each of a plurality of communications devices, an indication of at least one radio channel characteristic associated with that communications device, wherein the plurality of communications devices together with the infrastructure equipment form a subnetwork of the wireless communications network,
- determining, based on the received indications of the at least one radio channel characteristic, that one or more proximity groups are to be formed, wherein each of the proximity groups is to comprise at least two of the plurality of communications devices of the subnetwork, the at least one radio channel characteristic being similar for all of the at least two communications device in each proximity group, and
- maintaining, at the infrastructure equipment, the one or more proximity groups.
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An infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network, the infrastructure equipment comprising
- transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a communications device via a wireless access interface, and
- controller circuitry configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry
- to receive, from each of a plurality of communications devices, an indication of at least one radio channel characteristic associated with that communications device, wherein the plurality of communications devices together with the infrastructure equipment form a subnetwork of the wireless communications network,
- to determine, based on the received indications of the at least one radio channel characteristic, that one or more proximity groups are to be formed, wherein each of the proximity groups is to comprise at least two of the plurality of communications devices of the subnetwork, the at least one radio channel characteristic being similar for all of the at least two communications device in each proximity group, and
- to maintain, at the infrastructure equipment, the one or more proximity groups.
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A communications device comprising
- transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface, and
- controller circuitry configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry
- to transmit, to an infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network, an indication of at least one radio channel characteristic associated with the communications device, wherein the communications device forms a subnetwork of the wireless communications network together with the infrastructure equipment and one or more other communications devices,
- wherein the communications device and at least a second of the other communications devices each form part of a first proximity group of the subnetwork, the first proximity group being associated with the infrastructure equipment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.