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Granted Patent B2
US 11,476,987 · App. 17/065,870 · Granted Oct 18, 2022

Terminal for D2D communication

Inventors: Shimpei Yasukawa (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Qun Zhao (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L5/0042H04J11/00H04L5/0044H04L5/0051H04L5/0053H04W4/40H04W72/04H04W72/10H04W92/18H04J2211/005
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Patent No.
US 11,476,987
App. No.
17/065,870
Granted
Oct 18, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal is disclosed that includes a first transmitter configured to transmit control information for D2D by using a physical control channel for D2D multiplexed with a physical data channel for D2D in a frequency domain and a second transmitter configured to transmit data corresponding to the control information for D2D by using the physical data channel for D2D, where a plurality of the control information for D2Ds are mapped in a wireless resource unit. In other aspects, another terminal is also disclosed.

Claims (33)

1. A terminal comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive a device-to-device communication (D2D) control information and data corresponding to the D2D control information by using a D2D physical control channel and a D2D physical data channel multiplexed with the D2D physical control channel using at least one of frequency multiplexing and time multiplexing, in a unit resource constituting a radio resource; and

a control unit configured to obtain the data based on the D2D control information,

wherein the reception unit receives, in the unit resource, a reference signal time-multiplexed with the D2D physical control channel and the D2D physical data channel, and

wherein the D2D control information is one of first control information that includes information related to a radio resource in a time axis and a frequency axis to which the data is allocated, and second control information that does not include information related to the radio resource, and the control unit obtains the data using the second control information.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein a transmission bandwidth of the D2D physical control channel is different from a transmission bandwidth of the D2D physical data channel.

3. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the reception unit receives a plurality of the D2D control information items in the unit resource.

4. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the control unit determines that the D2D physical data channel is not allocated to a last symbol in the unit resource.

5. The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein which of the first control information or the second control information is the D2D control information is based on a resource range to which the first control information and the second control information are allocated.

6. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the reception unit receives a plurality of the D2D control information items in the unit resource.

7. The terminal according to claim 6 , wherein the control unit determines that the D2D physical data channel is not allocated to a last symbol in the unit resource.

8. The terminal according to claim 6 , wherein which of the first control information or the second control information is the D2D control information is based on a resource range to which the first control information and the second control information are allocated.

9. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit determines that the D2D physical data channel is not allocated to a last symbol in the unit resource.

10. The terminal according to claim 9 , wherein which of the first control information or the second control information is the D2D control information is based on a resource range to which the first control information and the second control information are allocated.

11. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein which of the first control information or the second control information is the D2D control information is based on a resource range to which the first control information and the second control information are allocated.

12. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the reception unit receives the reference signal at the first symbol of the unit resource, and the control unit performs automatic gain control (AGC) using the reference signal.

13. A communication method of a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a device-to-device communication (D2D) control information and data corresponding to the D2D control information by using a D2D physical control channel and a D2D physical data channel multiplexed with the D2D physical control channel using at least one of frequency multiplexing and time multiplexing, in a unit resource constituting a radio resource; and

obtaining the data based on the D2D control information,

wherein in the receiving, in the unit resource, a reference signal time-multiplexed with the D2D physical control channel and the D2D physical data channel is received, and

wherein the D2D control information is one of first control information that includes information related to a radio resource in a time axis and a frequency axis to which the data is allocated, and second control information that does not include information related to the radio resource, and data is obtained using the second control information.

14. A terminal comprising:

a control unit configured to multiplex, in a unit resource constituting a radio resource, a device-to-device (D2D) physical control channel, a D2D physical data channel, and a reference signal, by using at least one of frequency multiplexing and time multiplexing; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit, in the unit resource, using the D2D physical control channel and the D2D physical data channel, D2D control information, data corresponding to the D2D control information, and the reference signal,

wherein the D2D control information is one of first control information that includes information related to a radio resource in a time axis and a frequency axis to which the data is allocated, and second control information that does not include information related to the radio resource, and the data is obtained using the second control information.

15. A radio communication system in which a first terminal and a second terminal perform a device-to-device (D2D) communication, wherein:

the first terminal includes:

a control unit configured to multiplex, in a unit resource constituting a radio resource, a device-to-device (D2D) physical control channel, a D2D physical data channel, and a reference signal, by using at least one of frequency multiplexing and time multiplexing; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit, in the unit resource, using the D2D physical control channel and the D2D physical data channel, D2D control information, data corresponding to the D2D control information, and the reference signal,

wherein the D2D control information is one of first control information that includes information related to a radio resource in a time axis and a frequency axis to which the data is allocated, and second control information that does not include information related to the radio resource, and the data is obtained using the second control information, and

the second terminal includes:

a reception unit configured to receive, in the D2D physical control channel and the D2D physical data channel, the D2D control information, the data, and the reference signal; and

a control unit configured to obtain the data based on the D2D control information.

Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2015-159994 · Aug 13, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15751578
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