IP Library Granted Patent US 10,075,887
Granted Patent B2
US 10,075,887 · App. 15/500,983 · Granted Sep 11, 2018

Terminal device, integrated circuit, and communication method

Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki (Sakai, JP); Tatsushi Aiba (Sakai, JP); Katsunari Uemura (Sakai, JP); Kazunari Yokomakura (Sakai, JP); Hiroki Takahashi (Sakai, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04W36/08H04W4/70H04W36/00H04W72/0406H04W76/10H04W76/14H04W92/18H04W72/0473H04W72/12
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Patent No.
US 10,075,887
App. No.
15/500,983
Granted
Sep 11, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal device that communicates with a different terminal device and an Evolved Universal Terrestiral Radio Access Network (EUTRAN) configures a mode 2 that is available for communication between terminal devices out of EUTRAN coverage and for communication between terminal devices in the EUTRAN coverage, as a mode for inter-terminal device communication, and, during a handover procedure, performs reception processing for communication between terminal devices in a mode 2.

Claims (20)

1. A terminal device comprising:

transmission circuitry that performs transmission in a first communication in which a plurality of terminal devices communicate with each other directly; and

reception circuitry that receives a handover command from a network, the handover command indicating a mode for resource allocation in the first communication, and a first transmission resource for the first communication being scheduled by the network in the mode, wherein

the transmission circuitry transmits a communication signal by using the first transmission resource in the mode,

the transmission circuitry selects a second transmission resource from a first resource pool for the first communication, and transmits the communication signal by using the second transmission resource, while a timer is running until the timer expired in case of a handover failure or the timer stopped in case of a handover successful completion, the timer being started based on reception of the handover command,

the first resource pool is allocated by the network and includes a set of transmission resources including the second transmission resource,

each of the first and second transmission resources includes a plurality of resource elements,

each of the plurality of resource elements is identified by a combination of a subcarrier number and either an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol number or a single carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol number,

the terminal device initiates a connection re-establishment procedure in a case of an expiration of the timer, and

during the connection re-establishment procedure, the transmission circuitry further performs transmission for the first communication by using a second resource pool indicated by system information received from the network.

2. A communication method for a terminal device, comprising:

performing transmission in a first communication in which a plurality of terminal devices communicate with each other directly;

receiving a handover command from a network, the handover command indicating a mode for resource allocation in the first communication, first transmission resources for the first communication being scheduled by the network in the mode;

transmitting a communication signal by using the first transmission resource in the mode; and

selecting a second transmission resource from a first resource pool for the first communication, and transmitting the communication signal by using the second transmission resource, while a timer is running until the timer expired in case of a handover failure or the timer stopped in case of a handover successful completion, the timer being started based on reception of the handover command,

the first resource pool is allocated by the network and includes a set of transmission resources including the second transmission resource,

each of the first and second transmission resources includes a plurality of resource elements,

each of the plurality of resource elements is identified by a combination of a subcarrier number and either an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol number or a single carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol number, and

during the connection re-establishment procedure, performing transmission for the first communication by using a second resource pool indicated by system information received from the network, wherein

the connection re-establishment procedure is initiated in a case of an expiration of the timer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2017
From: SUZUKI, SHOICHI; AIBA, TATSUSHI; UEMURA, KATSUNARI; YOKOMAKURA, KAZUNARI; TAKAHASHI, HIROKI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 041145/0686 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-159392 · Aug 5, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170230876A1 · Aug 10, 2017
Cited By (1)
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