Communication device and method for V2X communication

• US 10,231,101 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2018
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Gozalvez-Serrano, David, Botsov, Mladen, Hu, Liang, Dillinger, Markus Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, John J
• Application Number:
  US15/917,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20180199174A1
• Time in Patent Office: 368 Days
• Field of Search: 4554521, 455509, 455515, 4554561, 455434
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication
• 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 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/121 for groups of terminals or users

Abstract

The invention relates to a communication device (101a, 107) configured to receive context information and to configure a radio frame, in particular a control channel of a radio frame, based on the context information. In an embodiment the radio frame comprises a plurality of communication resources, wherein the communication device (107) is configured to configure the radio frame by allocating at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of a plurality of other communication devices (101a-c, 103a-c) based on the context information.

Claims

1. A communication device configured to receive context information, in particular position-based information or type-based information, from or about at least one other communication device and to configure a radio frame, in particular a control channel of a radio frame, based on the received context information;

wherein the radio frame comprises a plurality of communication resources and wherein the communication device is configured to configure the radio frame by allocating at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of a plurality of other communication devices based on the context information;

wherein the communication device is further configured to broadcast the allocation of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame into at least two groups based on the context information to the plurality of other communication devices such that a respective communication device of the plurality of other communication devices selects a communication resource of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame from a group of the at least two groups of communication resources to which the respective communication device has been allocated.

2. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is configured to configure the radio frame by allocating the at last two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices based on a direction, a velocity and/or a position of at least one of the plurality of other communication devices and/or the density of the plurality of other communication devices.

3. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is further configured to dynamically adapt the allocation of the at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to the at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices based on the context information.

4. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication resources of a first group of communication resources of the at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame are orthogonal to the communication resources of a second group of communication resources of the at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame.

5. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is further configured to assign different priorities to the at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources such that a respective communication device of the plurality of other communication devices selects a communication resource of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame from a group of the at least two groups of communication resources according to the different priorities.

6. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is configured to configure the radio frame by allocating at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices based on the context information periodically or event-driven.

7. The communication device of claim 6, wherein the communication device is configured to reselect a communication resource of the plurality of communication resources, in case the at least one other communication device, predicted by the communication device to have access to the same communication resources of the plurality of communication resources as the communication device within the prediction interval, has selected the same communication resource of the plurality of communication resources as the communication device within the prediction interval.

8. The communication device of claim 6, wherein the communication device is configured to predict based on the context information at least one other communication device of the plurality of other communication devices to have access to the same communication resources of the plurality of communication resources as the communication device by receiving from each other one-hop neighboring communication device the context information of the other one-hop neighboring communication device and the context information of the other communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices that are other one-hop neighboring communication devices of the other one-hop neighboring communication device.

9. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the communication device is configured to configure the radio frame by allocating at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices based on the context information such that the number of communication resources within a group of the at least two groups of communication resources is proportional to the number of communication devices within a group of the at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices.

10. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the radio frame comprises a plurality of communication resources and wherein the communication device is configured to configure the radio frame by predicting based on the context information at least one other communication device of a plurality of other communication devices to have access to the same communication resources of the plurality of communication resources as the communication device within a prediction interval and by selecting a communication resource of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame on the basis of the prediction for the prediction interval.

11. A method comprising:

receiving, by a communication device, context information including position-based information or type-based information, from at least one other communication device; and

configuring a control channel of a radio frame, based on the received context information;

wherein the radio frame comprises a plurality of communication resources and wherein the method further comprises;

configuring the radio frame by allocating at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of a plurality of other communication devices based on the context information; and

broadcasting the allocation of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame into at least two groups based on the context information to the plurality of other communication devices such that a respective communication device of the plurality of other communication devices selects a communication resource of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame from a group of the at least two groups of communication resources to which the respective communication device has been allocated.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein configuring the control channel of the radio frame further comprises:

allocating the at last two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices based on;

(a) a direction, a velocity and/or a position of at least one of the plurality of other communication devices; and

/or

(b) the density of the plurality of other communication devices.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

dynamically adapting the allocation of the at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to the at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices based on the context information.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the communication resources of a first group of communication resources of the at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame are orthogonal to the communication resources of a second group of communication resources of the at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

assigning different priorities to the at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources, so as to enable a respective communication device of the plurality of other communication devices to select a communication resource of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame from a group of the at least two groups of communication resources according to the different priorities.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

configuring the radio frame by allocating at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices based on the context information periodically or event-driven.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

reselecting a communication resource of the plurality of communication resources, when the at least one other communication device predicted by the communication device has selected the same communication resource of the plurality of communication resources as the communication device within the prediction interval.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

predicting, based on the context information, at least one other communication device of the plurality of other communication devices to have access to the same communication resources of the plurality of communication resources as the communication device by receiving from each other one-hop neighboring communication device the context information of the other one-hop neighboring communication device and the context information of the other communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices that are other one-hop neighboring communication devices of the other one-hop neighboring communication device.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

configuring the radio frame by allocating at least two groups of communication resources of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame to at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices based on the context information such that a quantity of communication resources within a group of the at least two groups of communication resources is proportional to a quantity of communication devices within a group of the at least two groups of communication devices of the plurality of other communication devices.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the radio frame comprises a plurality of communication resources;

and wherein the method further comprises;

configuring the radio frame by predicting based on the context information at least one other communication device of a plurality of other communication devices to have access to the same communication resources of the plurality of communication resources as the communication device within a prediction interval and by selecting a communication resource of the plurality of communication resources of the radio frame on the basis of the prediction for the prediction interval.