Mechanism for Controlling Transmission of Control Signal to Communication Device
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprisinga determining processing portion configured to determine free resources of linked resources of at least one downlink control channel used for transmitting an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication, wherein the linked resources are linked to specified uplink resources for a communication connection and the free resources are not occupied by a signal related to the acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication, anda control signal transmitting portion configured to send dedicated control information related to a communication function being different to the acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication via the determined free resources of the linked resources.
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Abstract
There is provided a mechanism for controlling a transmission of a dedicated control signal or control information to a communication network element. Free resources of a PHICH which are linked to an UL transmission but not occupied by ACK/NACK information are determined and selected for transmitting a D2D specific control signal to a D2D device.
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1. An apparatus comprising
a determining processing portion configured to determine free resources of linked resources of at least one downlink control channel used for transmitting an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication, wherein the linked resources are linked to specified uplink resources for a communication connection and the free resources are not occupied by a signal related to the acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication, and a control signal transmitting portion configured to send dedicated control information related to a communication function being different to the acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication via the determined free resources of the linked resources.
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9. A method comprising
determining free resources of linked resources of at least one downlink control channel used for transmitting an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication, wherein the linked resources are linked to specified uplink resources for a communication connection and the free resources are not occupied by a signal related to the acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication, and sending dedicated control information related to a communication function being different to the acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication via the determined free resources of the linked resources.
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10. An apparatus comprising
a configuration processing portion configured to set resources of linked resources of at least one downlink control channel used for transmitting an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication as selected resources for receiving dedicated control information related to a communication function being different to the acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication, wherein the linked resources are linked to specified uplink resources for a communication connection, and a control signal receiving portion configured to receive and process the dedicated control information related to the communication function being different to the acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement feedback indication at the selected resources of the linked resources.
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