METHODS OF DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION

• US 20130083684A1
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Published: 04/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: AHN, Jae Young, LEE, Kyoung Seok, YEH, Choong Il
• Application Number:
  US13/630,160
• Publication Number:
  US 20130083684A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

Disclosed is a device to device (D2D) communication method. The D2D communication method includes generating a connection identification (CID) for D2D communication using an identification (ID) of a specific terminal, selecting a sequence corresponding to the CID, and transmitting the selected sequence using a paging request resource including a plurality of subcarriers. Accordingly, even in a channel selective wireless environment, a performance of a wireless link may be improved, and usage efficiency of wireless resources may be improved.

Claims

1. A device to device (D2D) communication method comprising:

generating a connection identification (CID) for D2D communication using an identification (ID) of a specific terminal;

selecting a sequence corresponding to the CID; and

transmitting the selected sequence using a paging request resource including a plurality of subcarriers.

2. The D2D communication method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the CID includes generating the CID as an output of a hash function using the ID of the specific terminal as an input of the hash function.

3. The D2D communication method of claim 1, wherein the selecting of the sequence includes selecting the sequence corresponding to the CID from a sequence set including a plurality of pseudo noise (PN) sequences which are set in advance.

4. The D2D communication method of claim 1, further comprising, after the selecting:

receiving at least one sequence broadcast from other terminals; and

determining whether the generated CID is occupied based on the received at least one sequence.

5. The D2D communication method of claim 4, wherein the transmitting of the selected sequence includes waiting until the following paging interval when the generated CID is occupied by the other terminal, and then transmitting the selected sequence using the paging request resource when the generated CID is not occupied in the following paging interval.

6. The D2D communication method of claim 1, further comprising, after the transmitting:

receiving at least one sequence transmitted from at least one other terminal in a paging response interval;

measuring reception power of the sequence corresponding to the generated CID among the received at least one sequence; and

determining that a paging response is received when the measured reception power is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value.

7. A D2D communication method which is performed in a transmission terminal requesting D2D communication connection, the D2D communication method comprising:

transmitting a request to send (RTS) signal by mapping a sequence corresponding to a generated CID in an RTS resource including a plurality of subcarriers;

determining whether a transmission abandonment condition is satisfied based on a clear to send (CTS) signal received from a reception terminal; and

transmitting a pilot signal when the transmission abandonment condition is satisfied.

8. The D2D communication method of claim 7, wherein the determining includes:

receiving a sequence mapped in a plurality of subcarriers as the CTS signal;

measuring a channel quality based on all of the plurality of subcarriers; and

determining that the transmission abandonment condition is satisfied when the measured channel quality is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value.

9. The D2D communication method of claim 8, wherein the measuring of the channel quality includes measuring an effective signal to interference ratio (SIR) representing an SIR of each of the plurality of subcarriers.

10. The D2D communication method of claim 7, wherein the transmitting of the pilot signal includes transmitting the sequence corresponding to the CID as the pilot signal.

11. A D2D communication method which is performed in a reception terminal receiving a request for D2D communication connection, the D2D communication method comprising:

receiving an RTS signal;

determining whether a reception abandonment condition is satisfied based on the received RTS signal; and

transmitting a CTS signal by mapping a sequence corresponding to a generated CID in a plurality of subcarriers when the reception abandonment condition is satisfied.

12. The D2D communication method of claim 11, wherein the determining includes:

measuring a channel quality based on all of the plurality of subcarriers constituting the received RTS signal; and

determining that the reception abandonment condition is satisfied when the measured channel quality is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value.

13. The D2D communication method of claim 12, wherein the measuring of the channel quality includes measuring an effective SIR representing an SIR of each of the plurality of subcarriers.

14. The D2D communication method of claim 11, further comprising, after the transmitting of the CTS signal:

receiving a pilot signal; and

transmitting a channel quality indicator only when reception power of the received pilot signal is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value.