Signal designs for D2D subframes
View Patent ↗Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses and methods for signal designs for device-to-device (D2D) subframes. Various embodiments may include a UE with a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via D2D communications. The UE may further include processing circuitry to generate a cyclic prefix (CP) for a first or second symbol of a D2D subframe at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resource block or a single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) resource block. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via device-to-device (D2D) communications; and
processing circuitry, coupled to the radio transceiver, to generate a cyclic prefix (CP) for a first or second symbol of a D2D subframe at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resource block or a single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) resource block, wherein the CP has a length greater than 33.33 microseconds; and to puncture a last symbol of the D2D subframe to provide a guard interval.
2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to puncture a first half of a useful symbol length of the first symbol and/or a second half of a useful symbol length of the last symbol of the D2D subframe.
3. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is to use a second half of a useful symbol length of the first symbol, generated based on a second half of a useful symbol length of the second symbol, as a part of the CP for the second symbol.
4. The UE of claim 3 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to puncture an entirety of a last symbol of the D2D subframe, or to puncture a first half of the useful symbol length of the first symbol and a second half of a useful symbol length of the last symbol.
5. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is to use a first half of a useful symbol length of the first symbol, generated based on a second half of the useful symbol length of the first symbol, as a part of the CP for the first symbol.
6. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is to generate the CP having a length greater than 66.67 microseconds for the second symbol.
7. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Proximity Services (ProSe) or LTE Direct; and
processing circuitry coupled to the radio transceiver to transmit a signal in a first symbol of a D2D subframe at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resource block or a single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) resource block, for automatic gain control (AGC) setting at a receiving UE,
wherein the processing circuitry is to use an uplink demodulation reference signal (UL-DMRS) as the signal in the first symbol, and wherein a base sequence and a cyclic shift of the UL-DMRS are same as those used for respective UL-DMRS on a fourth symbol and an eleventh symbol of the subframe.
8. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to generate a cyclic prefix to be greater than 66.67 microseconds for a second symbol of the D2D subframe.
9. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the processing circuitry is to use a first half of a useful symbol length of the first symbol, generated based on a second half of the useful symbol length of the first symbol, as a part of a cyclic prefix for the first symbol; and to keep the UL-DMRS to a second half of the useful symbol length of the first symbol.
10. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the processing circuitry is to map the UL-DMRS to an entirety of a non-cyclic-prefix portion of the first symbol.
11. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Proximity Services (ProSe) or LTE Direct; and
processing circuitry coupled to the radio transceiver to transmit a signal in a first symbol of a D2D subframe at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resource block or a single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) resource block, for automatic gain control (AGC) setting at a receiving UE, wherein the processing circuitry is to use an AGC reference signal as the signal, wherein the AGC reference signal is a sequence that has a peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR) and is common to a plurality of transmitting UEs, and wherein the AGC reference signal is defined on a per-resource block or on a per-resource block set basis.
12. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the processing circuitry is to puncture a first half of a useful symbol length of the first symbol.
13. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via device-to-device (D2D) communications; and
processing circuitry, coupled to the radio transceiver, to schedule a D2D subframe to be transmitted at least 624 basic time units ahead of a corresponding reference time of the D2D subframe, wherein one basic time unit equals 1/30720000 seconds,
wherein the corresponding reference time is a serving cell uplink reference time (SCURT) in a time division duplex deployment, wherein SCURT=SCDRT−TA, wherein SCDRT is a serving cell downlink reference time, and TA is an active timing advance valuent.
14. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the corresponding reference time is a serving or camping cell downlink reference time in a time division duplex deployment.
15. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the processing circuitry is to schedule the D2D subframe to be transmitted at 624 basic time units ahead of a serving or camping cell downlink reference time in a time division duplex deployment.
16. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to puncture a last symbol of the D2D subframe.