User equipment and signal transmission method

• US 10,728,881 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2017
• Issued: 07/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yasukawa, Shimpei, Nagata, Satoshi, Zhao, Qun, Liu, Liu, Li, Anxin, Jiang, Huiling
• Primary Examiner(s): Myers, Eric
• Application Number:
  US16/099,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20190159224A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/14 using user query or user detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/02 Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1215 for collaboration of different radio technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/569 of the traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

There is provided user equipment of a radio communication system that supports D2D communication. The user equipment includes a storage that stores a Gap pattern indicating a Gap period repeatedly configured in a radio resource for UL; and a transmitter that transmits a signal of D2D communication in a Gap period indicated by the Gap pattern stored in the storage.

Claims

1. User equipment of a radio communication system that supports D2D communication, the user equipment comprising:

a processor coupled to a memory that selects a radio resource for transmitting a signal of the D2D communication at a predetermined period, and that requests a base station to determine a Gap pattern corresponding to the radio resource selected by the processor; and

a receiver that obtains a Gap pattern determined by the base station from the base station; and

wherein the processor stores the Gap pattern obtained from the base station, the Gap pattern indicating a Gap period repeatedly configured in a radio resource for UL;

wherein the user equipment further includes a transmitter that transmits a signal of the D2D communication in the Gap period indicated by the Gap pattern stored in the memory,

wherein the processor includes information indicating priority of data to be transmitted in a Gap pattern request signal for requesting the base station to determine the Gap pattern corresponding to the radio resource selected by the processor and transmits the Gap pattern request signal to the base station.

2. The user equipment according to claim 1, wherein

the processor further selects a radio resource for transmitting a signal of the D2D communication at a predetermined period when priority of the D2D communication is higher than priority of UL communication,

wherein the transmitter further reports the radio resource selected by the processor to the base station, and

wherein the processor stores, in the memory, a Gap pattern such that the selected radio resource is included in a Gap period.

3. The user equipment according to claim 1,

wherein the processor further requests, from a base station, allocation information of a radio resource for enabling transmission of a signal of the D2D communication at a predetermined period, and

wherein the receiver further obtains, from the base station, resource allocation information indicating radio resource for enabling transmission of the signal of the D2D communication at a predetermined period and stores, in the memory, a Gap pattern such that the radio resource allocated by the base station, the radio resource indicated by the acquired resource allocation information, is included in a Gap period.

4. A signal transmission method to be executed by user equipment of a radio communication system that supports D2D communication, the signal transmission method comprising:

selecting a radio resource for transmitting a signal of the D2D communication at a predetermined period, and requesting a base station to determine a Gap pattern corresponding to the radio resource selected;

obtaining a Gap pattern determined by the base station from the base station;

storing, in a memory, the Gap pattern obtained from the base station, the Gap pattern indicating a Gap period repeatedly configured in a radio resource for UL; and

transmitting a signal of the D2D communication in a Gap period indicated by the Gap pattern stored in the memory,

wherein the user equipment includes information indicating priority of data to be transmitted in a Gap pattern request signal for requesting the base station to determine the Gap pattern corresponding to the radio resource selected and transmits the Gap pattern request signal to the base station.