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US 10,278,207 · App. 15/517,919 · Granted Apr 30, 2019

Method for transmitting/receiving D2D signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor

Inventors: Seungmin Lee (Seoul, KR); Hanbyul Seo (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W72/1289H04L1/0025H04L1/1812H04L5/0007H04L27/3836H04W28/06H04W56/00H04W72/12H04W74/08H04W74/0833
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Patent No.
US 10,278,207
App. No.
15/517,919
Granted
Apr 30, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring a downlink control channel by a first terminal having a single RX chain in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention comprises the steps of: setting a particular gap for a resource area related to device-to-device (D2D) signal transmission/reception; and monitoring a wide area network (WAN) communication-based downlink control channel on the basis of a timer performed according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation, wherein the timer is counted on the basis of at least one subframe which does not overlap with the particular gap, and the particular gap is a time interval set for allowing the single RX chain to cover a switching operation between WMN communication and D2D communication.

Claims (19)

1. A method for monitoring a downlink control channel by a first user equipment (UE) having a single reception (RX) chain in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring a resource region related to transmission and reception of a Device-to-Device (D2D) signal as a gap; and

monitoring a Wide Area Network (WAN) communication-based downlink control channel based on a timer operated according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation,

wherein the timer is counted based on at least one subframe not included in the resource region configured as the gap,

wherein the gap is a time interval configured for switching between WAN communication and D2D communication.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, when the first UE supports carrier aggregation (CA) and WAN communication is enabled in at least one of a first cell or a second cell for the CA, the timer is configured to be counted including the resource region configured as the gap.

3. A first user equipment (UE) for monitoring a downlink control channel having a single reception (RX) chain in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to:

configure a resource region related to transmission and reception of a Device-to-Device (D2D) signal as a gap; and

monitor a Wide Area Network (WAN) communication-based downlink control channel based on a timer operated according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation,

wherein the timer is counted based on at least one subframe not included in the resource region configured as the gap,

wherein the gap is a time interval configured for switching between WAN communication and D2D communication.

4. A method for performing a random access procedure by a first user equipment (UE) having a single reception (RX) chain in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring a random access response (RAR) window for performing a Wide region Network (WAN) based random access procedure; and

configuring a resource region related to transmission and reception of a Device-to-Device (D2D) signal and a gap for the resource region,

wherein the gap is a time interval configured for switching between WAN communication and D2D communication,

wherein the resource region and the gap are configured only when the RAR window does not overlap the resource region and the specific gap.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2017
From: LEE, SEUNGMIN; SEO, HANBYUL
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (9)
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Provisional Application 62076468 · Nov 6, 2014
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