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US 12,200,802 · App. 18/485,074 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

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
H04W76/23H04W72/02H04W72/56H04W36/033
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Patent No.
US 12,200,802
App. No.
18/485,074
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
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 (21)

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a receiver, which in operation, receives 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

a transmitter, which in operation, transmits to another communication apparatus a signal using the first resource pool or the second resource pool,

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.

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

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , 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 an eNode B schedules resources for a communication and the mode 2 being a transmission mode in which the communication apparatus autonomously schedules resources for the communication.

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

5. A communication method comprising:

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 to another communication apparatus a signal using the first resource pool or the second resource pool,

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 communication method according to claim 5 , wherein a transmission of the signal is in a non-exceptional case.

7. The communication method according to claim 5 , 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 a base station schedules resources for a communication and the mode 2 being a transmission mode in which the communication apparatus autonomously schedules resources for the communication.

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

9. An integrated circuit used for a communication apparatus comprising:

reception 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

transmission circuitry, which in operation, controls transmitting to another communication apparatus a signal using the first resource pool or the second resource pool,

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.

10. The integrated circuit according to claim 9 , wherein a transmission of the signal is in a non-exceptional case.

11. The integrated circuit according to claim 9 , 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 an eNode B schedules resources for a communication and the mode 2 being a transmission mode in which the communication apparatus autonomously schedules resources for the communication.

12. The integrated circuit according to claim 9 , wherein each of the first resource pool and the second resource pool includes a plurality of resources, and the signal is mapped to one of the plurality of resources.

Continuity (6)
Continuation 17750094 · May 20, 2022
Continuation 16896939 · Jun 9, 2020
Continuation 16281987 · Feb 21, 2019
Continuation 15377931 · Dec 13, 2016
Continuation PCTCN2014087563 · Sep 26, 2014
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