METHOD OF TRANSCEIVING FOR DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION

• US 20140016574A1
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: SEO, Bang Won, KO, Young Jo, NOH, Tae Gyun, AHN, Jae Young
• Application Number:
  US13/873,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20140016574A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

A method of transmitting and receiving a specific reference signal in single point transmission and multi-point transmission is disclosed. The specific reference signal transmission method includes determining specific reference signal transmission resources for at least one terminal targeted for transmission, and transmitting the specific reference signal using the determined transmission resources and notifying of information for a layer used by the terminal. The specific reference signal transmission method includes determining specific reference signal reception resources, receiving the information for the layer used by the terminal from a serving cell base station, and receiving the specific reference signal using the information for determined transmission resources and the layer. Therefore, the terminal can recognize a position and a sequence of the specific reference signal. Particularly, in the case of multi-user MIMO and cooperative scheduling, signal interference can be suppressed or removed using the specific reference signal of another terminal.

Claims

1. A method of operating a terminal that receives data or control information from a partner terminal through direct communication between terminals using a subframe for D2D communication among subframes, the subframes being classified into a subframe for cellular communication and the subframe for D2D communication, a D2D communication method comprising:

receiving state information of the partner terminal from a base station; and

determining whether the data or the control information is received from the partner terminal in at least some symbols of the subframe for D2D communication based on the state information.

2. The D2D communication method according to claim 1, wherein the subframe for D2D communication is arranged before or after the subframe for cellular communication.

3. The D2D communication method according to claim 2, wherein:

when the subframe for D2D communication is arranged after the subframe for cellular communication, the data or control information is not received from the partner terminal in at least some front symbols of the subframe for D2D communication.

4. The D2D communication method according to claim 2, wherein:

when the subframe for D2D communication is arranged before the subframe for cellular communication, the data or control information is not received from the partner terminal in at least some rear symbols of the subframe for D2D communication.

5. The D2D communication method according to claim 1, wherein the state information of the partner terminal includes at least some of UE-specific SRS subframe position information, PM-SRS transmission and reception subframe information, and CSI-SRS transmission and the reception subframe information.

6. A method of operating a terminal that receives data or control information from a partner terminal through direct communication between terminals using a subframe for D2D communication among subframes, the subframes being classified into a subframe for cellular communication and the subframe for D2D communication, a D2D to communication method comprising:

receiving information indicating whether at least some symbols of the subframe for D2D communication are used from a base station; and

determining whether the data or the control information is received from the partner terminal in at least some symbols of the subframe for D2D communication based on the information indicating whether at least some symbols of the subframe for D2D communication are used.

7. The D2D communication method according to claim 6, wherein the subframe for D2D communication is arranged before or after the subframe for cellular communication.

8. The D2D communication method according to claim 7, wherein:

when the subframe for D2D communication is arranged after the subframe for cellular communication, the data or control information is not received from the partner terminal in at least some front symbols of the subframe for D2D communication.

9. The D2D communication method according to claim 7, wherein:

when the subframe for D2D communication is arranged before the subframe for cellular communication, the data or control information is not received from the partner terminal in at least some rear symbols of the subframe for D2D communication.

10. The D2D communication method according to claim 7, wherein the information indicating whether at least some symbols of the subframe for D2D communication are used is received as downlink control information (DCI) from the base station, and includes 1 or 2 bits.

11. A method of transmitting control information in a terminal performing device-to-device communication, the method comprising:

mapping a DM-RS (Demodulation RS) to subframe resources in which device-to-device communication (D2D) data is transmitted;

mapping the control information to the subframe resources;

mapping the device-to-device communication data to resources other than the resources to which the DM-RS and the control information are mapped among the subframe resources; and

transmitting the subframe to a partner terminal of device-to-device communication.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the control information is preferentially mapped to a symbol adjacent to a symbol to which the DM-RS is mapped in the subframe resources.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the control information is not mapped to a first symbol of a first slot of the subframe resources and a last symbol of a second slot of the subframe resources.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the control information includes at least one of new data indicator (NDI) information and ACK/NACK information.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the new data indicator and the ACK/NACK information are subjected to separate coding or joint coding and mapped to the subframe resources.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein:

when the new data indicator and the ACK/NACK information are subjected to separate coding, at least one of the new data indicator and the ACK/NACK information is mapped from an edge frequency band in the subframe resources.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein:

when the new data indicator and the ACK/NACK information are subjected to joint coding, the control information is mapped from an edge frequency band in the subframe resources.

18. The method according to claim 11, wherein the device-to-device communication data is not mapped to a first symbol of a first slot of the subframe resources and a last symbol of a second slot of the subframe resources.