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US 12,245,218 · App. 17/204,337 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Communication apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication system

Inventors: Huiting Cheng (Yokohama, JP); Jianming Wu (Kawasaki, JP); Tsuyoshi Shimomura (Yokohama, JP); Hongyang Chen (Kawasaki, JP)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04W72/1263H04W72/535
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Patent No.
US 12,245,218
App. No.
17/204,337
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A communication apparatus that supports sidelink communication, the communication apparatus includes, a scheduler configured to select one resource pool from a plurality of resource pools based on a selection criterion set for an individual one of the plurality of resource pools and information regarding sidelink communication, and a transmission unit configured to transmit control information and data by using a resource included in the resource pool selected by the scheduler, wherein the information regarding sidelink communication is a QoS (Quality of Service) condition requested when the data is transmitted via sidelink communication.

Claims (58)

1. A communication apparatus that supports sidelink communication, the communication apparatus comprising:

a scheduler configured to:

select a first resource pool from a plurality of resource pools,

determine a first threshold based on information regarding sidelink communication, the first threshold is a threshold for a percentage of available resources in the selected first resource pool,

when the percentage of available resources are smaller than the first threshold, increase a second threshold for reception energy,

perform exclusion processing to exclude resources from the first resource pool, and

repeat the exclusion process until the percentage of available resources being equal to or higher than the first threshold; and

a transmitter configured to transmit control information and data by using a resource selected by the scheduler, wherein

the information regarding sidelink communication is a priority condition requested when the data is transmitted via sidelink communication.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the selection criterion includes usage ranking indicating that at least one resource pool of the plurality of resource pools is preferentially used per information regarding sidelink communication, and

the scheduler selects one of the resource pools based on the usage ranking and the information regarding sidelink communication.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, even after the scheduler selects a resource pool having a first usage ranking from the plurality of resource pools, when the priority condition is not satisfied, the scheduler switches the resource pool to a resource pool having a second usage ranking.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a receiver configured to receive the selection criterion of the resource pool transmitted from a base station apparatus, wherein

the scheduler selects one of the resource pools based on the received selection criterion and the information regarding sidelink communication.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a resource information memory that stores the selection criterion of the resource pool, wherein

the scheduler selects one of the resource pools based on the selection criterion read from the resource information memory and the information regarding sidelink communication.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the resource pool is a first resource pool in which resources are sensed in a first time unit or a second resource pool in which resources are sensed in a second time unit which is shorter than the first time unit.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the first time unit is a slot unit or a subframe unit.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the second time unit is a symbol unit.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein a number of resources used for sensing in the second time unit in the second resource pool depends on the information regarding sidelink communication.

10. The communication apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein

the information regarding sidelink communication contains the priority condition which is requested when the data is transmitted via sidelink communication, and

when the priority condition is equal to or greater than a first threshold, the number of resources used for sensing in the second time unit is equal to or less than a second threshold, and when the priority condition is less than the first threshold, the number of resources used for sensing in the second time unit is greater than the second threshold.

11. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the priority condition is represented by communication delay and communication reliability.

12. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a data generator configured to generate the data, wherein

the data generator determines the priority based on parameters of the data.

13. The communication apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the parameters include a use case in which the data is used and all or part of data priority.

14. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the communication apparatus autonomously selects a resource from the plurality of resource pools and transmits the data by using the selected resource.

15. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the communication apparatus transmits data by using sidelink communication in communication mode that determines a radio resource for transmitting the data using the sidelink communication by the communication apparatus.

16. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first threshold is determined by priority of the data.

17. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the exclusion process is a process of excluding resources from the first resource pool according to the second threshold.

18. A base station apparatus that supports Device to Device communication, the base station apparatus comprising:

a scheduler configured to generate information regarding a selection criterion set for an individual one of a plurality of resource pools; and

a transmitter configured to:

select one of the resource pools based on the selection criterion and information regarding sidelink communication, when the percentage of available resources are smaller than a first threshold, the first threshold is a threshold for a percentage of available resources in the selected resource pool,

increase a second threshold for reception energy, perform exclusion processing to exclude resources from the selected resource pool, and

repeat the exclusion process until the percentage of available resources being equal to or higher than the first threshold, wherein

the information regarding sidelink communication is priority requested when the data is transmitted via sidelink communication.

19. A communication system that supports Device to Device communication, the communication system comprising:

a base station apparatus; and

a terminal apparatus, wherein

the base station apparatus includes:

a first scheduler that generates information regarding a selection criterion set for an individual one of a plurality of resource pools; and

a first transmitter configured to transmit the information regarding the selection criterion to the terminal apparatus;

the terminal apparatus includes:

a receiver configured to receive the information regarding the selection criterion;

a second scheduler that selects one of the resource pools based on the selection criterion and the information regarding sidelink communication when the percentage of available resources are smaller than a first threshold, the first threshold is a threshold for a percentage of available resources in the selected resource pool, to increase a second threshold for reception energy, to perform exclusion processing to exclude resources from the selected resource pool, and repeat the exclusion process until the percentage of available resources being equal to or higher than the first threshold; and

a transmitter configured to transmit data by using a resource included in the selected resource pool; and

the information regarding sidelink communication is priority requested when the data is transmitted via sidelink communication.

20. A communication system that supports sidelink communication, the communication system comprising:

a first terminal apparatus; and

a second terminal apparatus, wherein

the first terminal apparatus includes:

a scheduler that selects one of the resource pools based on a selection criterion set for an individual one of a plurality of resource pools and information regarding sidelink communication when the percentage of available resources are smaller than a first threshold, the first threshold is a threshold for a percentage of available resources in the selected first resource pool, to increase a second threshold for reception energy, to perform exclusion processing to exclude resources from the selected resource pool, and repeat the exclusion process until the percentage of available resources being equal to or higher than the first threshold; and

a transmitter configured to transmit data by using a resource included in the selected resource pool;

the second terminal includes a receiver configured to receive the data by using a resource included in the resource pool; and

the information regarding sidelink communication is priority requested when the data is transmitted via sidelink communication.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 5, 2026
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 074197/0244 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2021
From: CHENG, HUITING; WU, JIANMING; SHIMOMURA, TSUYOSHI; CHEN, HONGYANG
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 055625/0589 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2018034662 · Sep 19, 2018
Related Publication 20210298044A1 · Sep 23, 2021
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