Public safety discovery and communication using a UE-to-UE relay
View Patent ↗Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses for public safety discovery and communication with a user equipment (UE)-to-UE relay. Various embodiments may include processing circuitry to execute instructions to determine a list of UEs with which an apparatus may communicate using device-to-device (D2D) communication and generate an announcement message that indicates the apparatus can serve as a relay based at least in part on the list. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
1. An apparatus for wireless communication comprising:
one or more storage media having instructions; and
processing circuitry, coupled with the one or more storage media to execute the instructions to:
determine a list of user equipments (UEs) with which the apparatus may communicate using device-to-device (D2D) communication;
generate an announcement message that indicates the apparatus can serve as a relay based at least in part on the list; and
generate a signal based at least in part on the announcement message and control transceiver circuitry to transmit the signal.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the announcement message includes a list of UEs within D2D communication range.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the announcement message includes a layer-2 identifier and a user information parameter associated with individual UEs in the list.
4. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to generate a relay frame based at least in part on a frame received from a UE in the list of UEs.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the frame received from the UE includes a source layer-2 ID field, a destination layer-2 ID field, a relay layer-2 ID field, and a direction field set to ‘to relay’.
6. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the relay frame includes a source layer-2 ID field, a destination layer-2 ID field, a relay layer-2 ID field, and a direction field set to ‘from relay’.
7. A user equipment (UE) comprising:
one or more storage media having instructions; and
processing circuitry, coupled with the one or more storage media to execute the instructions to:
determine a list of other UEs with which the UE may communicate using device-to-device (D2D) communication;
generate a message having a discovery-type parameter set to UE-to-UE relay discovery and a parameter corresponding to another UE with which the UE may communicate using D2D communication; and
generate a signal based at least in part on the message and to control transceiver circuitry to transmit the signal.
8. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the message is an announcement message.
9. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the message is a response message generated in response to a solicitation message received from a sending UE that is one of the other UEs with which the UE may communicate using D2D communication.
10. The UE of claim 9 , wherein the response message includes a remote user information parameter.
11. The UE of claim 10 , wherein the response message includes a remote UE layer-2 identifier associated with the remote user information parameter.
12. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the remote UE layer-2 identifier is associated with a UE in the list of other UEs with which the UE may communicate using D2D communication and the response message also includes a layer-2 identifier of the UE.
13. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to generate a relay frame based at least in part on a frame received from a sending UE, wherein the sending UE is in the list of other UEs with which the UE may communicate using D2D communication.
14. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution of the instructions by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE) cause the UE to:
perform group member discovery to discover at least one other UE with which the UE may communicate using device-to-device (D2D) communication; and
discover a potential relay UE for communication with a remote UE, wherein the potential relay UE is one of the at least one other UEs, wherein the UE is further to send a device-to-device medium access control (MAC) frame to the potential relay UE, wherein the MAC frame includes a header with a direction field set to ‘to relay’.
15. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the UE is caused to discover the potential relay UE based at least in part on receiving an announcement message from the potential relay UE.
16. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the announcement message includes an identifier corresponding to the potential relay UE and a remote user information parameter.
17. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the UE is further caused to send a solicitation message and the UE is caused to discover the potential relay UE based at least in part on receiving a response to the solicitation message from the potential relay UE.
18. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the solicitation message includes an identifier corresponding to the UE and a remote user information parameter.
19. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the solicitation message includes a plurality of remote user information parameters.
20. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the solicitation message includes a discovery-type parameter set to UE-to-UE relay discovery.
21. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution of the instructions by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE) cause the UE to:
perform group member discovery to discover a plurality of other UEs with which the UE may communicate using device-to-device (D2D) communication;
generate an announcement message that indicates the UE can serve as a relay based at least in part on the group member discovery; and
act as a relay UE for communication between a sending UE and a remote UE, wherein the sending UE and the remote UE are part of the discovered plurality of other UEs.
22. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the UE is to act as a relay UE by performing layer-2 forwarding.
23. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 22 , wherein the UE is further caused to transmit the announcement message, wherein the announcement message includes a discovery-type parameter set to UE-to-UE relay discovery, and wherein the UE is to act as a relay UE after transmission of the announcement message upon reception of an extended medium access control (MAC) header from the sending UE that includes a direction parameter indicating a MAC frame is being transmitted to a relay.
24. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the UE is further caused to transmit a response message in response to reception of a solicitation message from another UE that includes a remote user information parameter corresponding to a user associated with one of the discovered plurality of other UEs, wherein the UE is to act as a relay UE after transmission of the response message upon reception of an extended medium access control (MAC) header from the sending UE that includes a direction parameter indicating a MAC frame is being transmitted to a relay.