Techniques for wide area network based vehicle-to-vehicle signaling

• US 10,075,810 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2016
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Patil, Shailesh, Tsirtsis, Georgios, Li, Junyi, Cheng, Hong, Baghel, Sudhir Kumar, Vanderveen, Michaela
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming, William D
• Application Number:
  US15/273,452
• Publication Number:
  US 20170127231A1
• Time in Patent Office: 719 Days
• Field of Search: 455411, 4554351, 4554561
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/04 Traffic adaptive resource partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication at a first base station (e.g., corresponding to, associated with, or included in a first cell) includes receiving location information from a vehicle; identifying, based at least in part on the location information, a plurality of cells from which to broadcast a location message associated with the vehicle, where the plurality of cells include at least a cell of a second base station; and communicating with at least the second base station regarding a broadcast of the location message. A method for wireless communication at a vehicle include transmitting location information from the vehicle to a base station on an access stratum (AS) layer, and transmitting location message information to the base station. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Claims

1. A method for wireless communication at a first base station, comprising:

receiving location information from a vehicle;

identifying, based at least in part on the location information, a plurality of cells from which to broadcast a location message associated with the vehicle, the plurality of cells including a cell of a second base station, wherein the location message is based at least in part on the location information;

identifying a set of at least one subframe in which to broadcast the location message over a single frequency network, at a same time the location message is broadcast from each cell of the plurality of cells; and

communicating with at least the second base station regarding the broadcast of the location message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information is received from the vehicle on an access stratum (AS) layer.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a target broadcast range for the location message; and

wherein the plurality of cells is further identified based at least in part on the target broadcast range.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the target broadcast range is identified based at least in part on:

a type of the location message, or a type of the vehicle, or receiving the target broadcast range from the vehicle, or a combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a location and coverage area of each cell of a number of neighboring cells; and

wherein the plurality of cells is further identified based at least in part on the location and coverage area of at least one of the number of neighboring cells.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the vehicle, location message information comprising at least one of;

a content of the location message, or a type of the location message, or a combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

refraining from broadcasting the location message for a predetermined number of time units after receiving the location message information from the vehicle.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating with at least the second base station comprises:

transmitting to at least the second base station;

a content of the location message, or a type of the location message, or the location information, or an indication of the plurality of cells, or a combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the set of at least one subframe comprises:

identifying a geographic area associated with the location information; and

indexing, using the geographic area, a mapping of geographic areas to sets of at least one subframe.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

broadcasting the mapping of geographic areas to sets of at least one subframe in at least one of;

a system information block (SIB), or dedicated radio resource control (RRC) signaling, or a combination thereof.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

broadcasting, according to a message order known to each cell of the plurality of cells, a plurality of location messages pertaining to a plurality of vehicles located in the geographic area.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the message order is based at least in part on:

an ordering of vehicle locations within the geographic area, a time order in which location messages of the plurality of location messages are queued for transmission, a time order in which the location messages are received from the plurality of vehicles, or a combination thereof.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting scheduling information for the location message on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a subframe in the at least one subframe, the scheduling information associated with a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) reserved for broadcasting location messages to vehicles.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

transmitting scheduling information for at least one non-vehicle data transmission on the PDCCH of the subframe.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a geographic area associated with the location information; and

indexing, using the geographic area, a mapping of geographic areas to cell radio network temporary identifiers (C-RNTIs); and

transmitting scheduling information for the location message on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a subframe, the scheduling information associated with a C-RNTI mapped to the geographic area.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

broadcasting the mapping of geographic areas to C-RNTIs in at least one of;

a system information block (SIB), or dedicated radio resource control (RRC) signaling, or a combination thereof.

17. A method for wireless communication at a vehicle, comprising:

transmitting location information from the vehicle to a base station on an access stratum (AS) layer;

transmitting a target broadcast range for a location message to the base station; and

transmitting location message information to the base station.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the location message information comprises at least one of:

a content of a location message, or a type of the location message, or a combination thereof.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the location information and the location message information are transmitted in a same subframe.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

receiving a mapping of geographic areas to sets of at least one subframe in at least one of;

a system information block (SIB), or dedicated radio resource control (RRC) signaling, or a combination thereof;

identifying a geographic area associated with a location of the vehicle; and

monitoring for transmissions in a set of at least one subframe mapped to the geographic area.

21. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

receiving a mapping of geographic areas to cell radio network temporary identifiers (C-RNTIs) in at least one of;

a system information block (SIB), or dedicated radio resource control (RRC) signaling, or a combination thereof;

identifying a geographic area associated with a location of the vehicle; and

monitoring for transmissions associated with at least one C-RNTI mapped to the geographic area.

22. An apparatus for wireless communication at a first base station, comprising:

a receiver;

a transmitter;

a processor;

a memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to;

receive location information from a vehicle;

identify, based at least in part on the location information, a plurality of cells from which to broadcast a location message associated with the vehicle, the plurality of cells including a cell of a second base station, wherein the location message is based at least in part on the location information;

identify a set of at least one subframe in which to broadcast the location message over a single frequency network, at a same time the location message is broadcast from each cell of the plurality of cells; and

communicate with at least the second base station regarding the broadcast of the location message.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the location information is received from the vehicle on an access stratum (AS) layer.

24. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor further cause the apparatus to:

identify a target broadcast range for the location message; and

wherein the plurality of cells is further identified based at least in part on the target broadcast range.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the target broadcast range is identified based at least in part on:

a type of the location message, or a type of the vehicle, or receiving the target broadcast range from the vehicle, or a combination thereof.

26. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor further cause the apparatus to:

identify a location and coverage area of each cell of a number of neighboring cells; and

wherein the plurality of cells is further identified based at least in part on the location and coverage area of at least one of the number of neighboring cells.

27. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor further cause the apparatus to:

receive, from the vehicle, location message information comprising at least one of;

a content of the location message, or a type of the location message, or a combination thereof.

28. An apparatus for wireless communication at a vehicle, comprising:

a receiver;

a transmitter;

a processor;

a memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to;

transmit location information from the vehicle to a base station on an access stratum (AS) layer;

transmit a target broadcast range for a location message to the base station; and

transmit location message information to the base station.