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Granted Patent B2
US 11,368,997 · App. 16/896,939 · Granted Jun 21, 2022

Device-to-device wireless communication method and user equipment

Inventors: Lilei Wang (Beijing, CN); Prateek Basu Mallick (Hessen, DE); Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP); Joachim Loehr (Hessen, DE); Masayuki Hoshino (Chiba, JP)
Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
H04W76/23H04W72/02H04W72/10H04W36/03
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Patent No.
US 11,368,997
App. No.
16/896,939
Granted
Jun 21, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are D2D wireless communication methods and UEs therefor. In one embodiment, the D2D wireless communication method performed by a UE includes continuing D2D transmission by using a resource from a resource pool allocated for mode 2 operation when switching from mode 1 operation to mode 2 operation. In another embodiment, the D2D wireless communication method performed by a UE includes performing D2D transmission by using a resource from a resource pool allocated for mode 2 operation, wherein the resource pool is indicated by a dedicated RRC signaling transmitted by an eNB, a SIB transmitted by an eNB, a PD2DSCH transmitted by other UE(s), and/or pre-configuration, and the dedicated RRC signaling, the SIB, the PD2DSCH and the pre-configuration are in descending order in priority when determining the resource pool.

Claims (16)

1. An integrated circuitry comprising:

circuitry, which, in operation, controls

receiving from a base station information of a first resource pool being indicated by a dedicated Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling and information of a second resource pool being indicated by a System Information Block (SIB); and

transmitting a device to device (D2D) signal using the first resource pool or the second resource pool;

wherein the first resource pool is utilized among the first resource pool and, the second resource pool a preconfigured resource pool in a case that the first resource pool and the second resource pool are indicated in an RRC_CONNECTED state, and the second resource pool is utilized among the second resource pool and the preconfigured resource pool in a case that the second resource pool is indicated in an RRC IDLE state.

2. The integrated circuitry according to claim 1 , wherein a transmission of the D2D signal is in a non-exceptional case.

3. The integrated circuitry according to claim 1 , wherein the second resource pool is used when a communication apparatus switches from mode 1 to mode 2, the mode 1 being a transmission mode in which an eNode B schedules resources for D2D communication and the mode 2 being a transmission mode in which the communication apparatus autonomously schedules resources for the D2D communication.

4. The integrated circuitry according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first resource pool and the second resource pool includes a plurality of resources, and the D2D signal is mapped to one of the plurality of resources.

5. An integrated circuitry comprising:

circuitry, which, in operation, controls

allocating a first resource pool and a second resource pool used for a transmission of a device to device (D2D) signal; and

transmitting to a communication apparatus information of the first resource pool by a dedicated Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling and information of the second resource pool by a System Information Block (SIB),

wherein the first resource pool is utilized among the first resource pool, the second resource pool and a preconfigured resource pool in a case that the first resource pool and the second resource pool are indicated in an RRC_CONNECTED state, and the second resource pool is utilized among the second resource pool and the preconfigured resource pool in a case that the second resource pool is indicated in an RRC IDLE state.

6. The integrated circuitry according to claim 5 , wherein a transmission of the D2D signal is in a non-exceptional case.

7. The integrated circuitry according to claim 5 , wherein the second resource pool is used when the communication apparatus switches from mode 1 to mode 2, the mode 1 being a transmission mode in which a base station schedules resources for D2D communication and the mode 2 being a transmission mode in which the communication apparatus autonomously schedules resources for the D2D communication.

8. The integrated circuitry according to claim 5 , wherein each of the first resource pool and the second resource pool includes a plurality of resources, and the D2D signal is transmitted in one of the plurality of resources.

Continuity (4)
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