Terminal apparatus, communication control method and communication control apparatus

• US 10,499,277 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2014
• Issued: 12/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kimura, Ryota, Uchiyama, Hiromasa, Sawai, Ryo, Furuichi, Sho, Takano, Hiroaki, Tsuda, Shinichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): George, Ayanah S
• Application Number:
  US14/768,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20160021566A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,132 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/02 Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

[Object] To allow an increase in load on the base station to be suppressed when the device-to-device communication is performed.

[Solution] There is provided a terminal apparatus capable of communicating with a base station, the terminal apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires radio resource information related to a radio resource usable for device-to-device communication not via the base station, of radio resources controllable by the base station, and a determination unit that determines a size of data to be transmitted and received in the device-to-device communication on the basis of the radio resource information.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus being used as a master device, the terminal apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

acquire radio resource information related to a radio resource usable for a device-to-device communication not via a base station for two or more slave devices not for the master device;

determine a size of data to be transmitted or received in the device-to-device communication between the two or more slave devices based on the radio resource information and predetermined modulation and encoding schemes; and

notify the two or more slave devices which perform the device-to-device communication of the determined size of the data to be transmitted or received.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the slave devices are notified of the information related to the size of data through transmission on a control channel for transmitting a control signal.

3. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the slave devices are notified of the information related to the size of data through transmission on a data channel for transmitting data.

4. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the size of data is one of a plurality of predetermined sizes, and the information related to the size of data is information corresponding to the one of the plurality of predetermined sizes.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information related to the size of data is information indicating an amount of data.

6. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an apparatus on a transmitting side in the device-to-device communication is notified of the radio resource usable for the device-to-device communication, as a resource for transmission, and another apparatus on a receiving side in the device-to-device communication is notified of the radio resource usable for the device-to-device communication, as another resource for reception.

7. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined modulation scheme and the encoding scheme are to be used in the device-to-device communication by the slave devices that perform the device-to-device communication.

8. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined modulation scheme is a modulation scheme having the lowest data rate among a plurality of usable modulation schemes, and the predetermined encoding scheme is an encoding scheme having the lowest data rate among a plurality of usable encoding schemes.

9. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to calculate an amount of the radio resource usable for the device-to-device communication, based on the radio resource information, and determine the size of data based on the amount of the radio resource for the data and the predetermined modulation and encoding schemes.

10. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine, as the size of data, a minimum size of one or more predetermined sizes corresponding to an amount of the radio resource usable for the device-to-device communication, and the predetermined modulation and encoding schemes, based on the radio resource information.

11. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the radio resource usable for the device-to-device communication is a part or all of radio resources to be reported by the base station as a usable radio resource.

12. The terminal apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the device-to-device communication is radio communication in a localized network controlled by the terminal apparatus, and the radio resource usable for the device-to-device communication is assigned by the terminal apparatus as a radio resource for the device-to-device communication from the part or all of radio resources to be reported by the base station.

13. The terminal apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the radio resource usable for the device-to-device communication is assigned by the base station as a radio resource for the device-to-device communication, and is reported by the base station.

14. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the radio resource usable for the device-to-device communication is a part or all of radio resources estimated as a usable radio resource.

17. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to prevent the base station from performing resource assignment for the device-to-device communication, thereby suppressing an increase in a load on the base station.

15. An information processing apparatus that controls a terminal apparatus being used as a master device and capable of communicating with a base station, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory that stores a predetermined program; and

a processor capable of executing the predetermined program,

wherein the predetermined program serves to execute;

acquiring radio resource information related to a radio resource usable for a device-to-device communication not via the base station for two or more slave devices, not for the master device, wherein the terminal apparatus determines a size of data to be transmitted or received in the device-to-device communication between the two or more slave devices based on the radio resource information and predetermined modulation and encoding schemes, and the terminal apparatus notifies the two or more slave devices which perform the device-to-device communication of the determined size of the data to be transmitted or received.

16. A communication control apparatus of a base station, the communication control apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

assign, to a terminal apparatus, usable radio resources, from radio resources controllable by the base station, for radio communication between the base station and the terminal apparatus; and

notify the terminal apparatus of the usable radio resources of the radio resources controllable by the base station, the terminal apparatus being used as a master device,

wherein a part or all of the usable radio resources are used for a device-to-device communication not via the base station for two or more slave devices, not for the master device, and

wherein the terminal apparatus determines a size of data to be transmitted or received in the device-to-device communication between the two or more slave devices based on radio resource information related to the usable radio resources and predetermined modulation and encoding schemes, and the terminal apparatus notifies the two or more slave devices which perform the device-to-device communication of the determined size of the data to be transmitted or received.