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US 9,735,926 · App. 14/835,362 · Granted Aug 15, 2017

Method and apparatus for data transmission of device-to-device user equipment in wireless communication system

Inventors: Hyukjin Chae (Seoul, KR); Hanbyul Seo (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L1/1614H04J1/02H04L5/0033H04W72/0446H04L5/0007H04L5/0053H04W76/023
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Patent No.
US 9,735,926
App. No.
14/835,362
Granted
Aug 15, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting Device-to-Device (D2D) data by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining a bitmap to be applied to a subframe pool for data transmission from a subframe indicator bitmap; determining a set of subframes to transmit D2D data by using the bitmap to the subframe pool for data transmission; and transmitting D2D data in a subframe included in the determined subframe set, wherein a set of values available as k being the number of 1s in the subframe indicator bitmap are changed according to a change in a transmission mode under unchanged UL/DL configuration.

Claims (22)

1. A method for transmitting Device-to-Device (D2D) data by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

determining a bitmap to be applied to a subframe pool for data transmission from one of a first subframe indicator bitmap for a transmission mode 1 UE which receives indication of transmission resources for D2D communications or a second subframe indicator bitmap for a transmission mode 2 UE which selects the transmission resources for the D2D communications,

wherein a maximum value of a first set of values available as k being the number of is in the first subframe indicator bitmap is larger than a maximum value of a second set of values available as k being the number of is in the second subframe indicator bitmap;

determining a set of subframes to transmit D2D data by using the bitmap to the subframe pool for data transmission; and

transmitting D2D data in a subframe included in the determined subframe set.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a set of values available as k in transmission mode 2 of the UE is a subset of a set of values available as k in transmission mode 1 of the UE.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein if the transmission mode of the UE is transmission mode 2 and a UL/DL configuration configured for the UE is one of UL/DL configurations 1, 2, 4, and 5, the set of values available as k is {1, 2, 4}.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein if the transmission mode of the UE is transmission mode 2 and a UL/DL configuration configured for the UE is UL/DL configuration 0, the set of values available as k is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein if the transmission mode of the UE is transmission mode 2 and a UL/DL configuration configured for the UE is one of UL/DL configurations 3 and 6, the set of values available as k is {1, 2, 3, 4}.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein if the transmission mode of the UE is transmission mode 2 and a duplex mode of the UE is Frequency Division Duplex (FDD), the set of values available as k is {1, 2, 4}.

7. An apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) for transmitting a Device-to-Device (D2D) data in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a transmission module; and

a processor, wherein the processor is configured to

determine a bitmap to be applied to a subframe pool for data transmission from one of a first subframe indicator bitmap for a transmission mode 1 UE which receives indication of transmission resources for D2D communications or a second subframe indicator bitmap for a transmission mode 2 UE which selects the transmission resources for the D2D communications,

wherein a maximum value of a set of values available as k being the number of is in the first subframe indicator bitmap is larger than a maximum value of a set of values available as k being the number of 1s in the second subframe indicator bitmap,

determine a set of subframes to transmit D2D data by using the bitmap to the subframe pool for data transmission, and

transmit D2D data in a subframe included in the determined subframe set.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein a set of values available as k in transmission mode 2 of the UE is a subset of a set of values available as k in transmission mode 1 of the UE.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein if the transmission mode of the UE is transmission mode 2 and a UL/DL configuration configured for the UE is one of UL/DL configurations 1, 2, 4, and 5, the set of values available as k is {1, 2, 4}.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein if the transmission mode of the UE is transmission mode 2 and a UL/DL configuration configured for the UE is UL/DL configuration 0, the set of values available as k is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}.

11. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein if the transmission mode of the UE is transmission mode 2 and a UL/DL configuration configured for the UE is one of UL/DL configurations 3 and 6, the set of values available as k is {1, 2, 3, 4}.

12. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein if the transmission mode of the UE is transmission mode 2 and a duplex mode of the UE is Frequency Division Duplex (FDD), the set of values available as k is {1, 2, 4}.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 9, 2015
From: CHAE, HYUKJIN; SEO, HANBYUL
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 62042228 · Aug 26, 2014
Provisional Application 62042768 · Aug 27, 2014
Related Publication 20160066305A1 · Mar 3, 2016