METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A DEVICE-TO-DEVICE LINK CONNECTION AND SCHEDULING FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION AND TERMINAL RELAYING

• US 20140023008A1
• Filed: 12/27/2011
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Tae Gyun Noh
• Inventors: Ahn, Jae-Young, Noh, Tae Gyun, Ko, Young Jo
• Application Number:
  US13/976,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20140023008A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/006 Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling
• 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 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for establishing a device-to-device link connection and scheduling for device-to-device communication and terminal relaying. The method for operating a terminal according to the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving information on the establishment of a D2D link; reporting a state of a D2D buffer of the D2D link to a base station; and receiving information on the D2D link resource allocation based on the report on the D2D buffer state. The scheduling method for D2D communication according to the present invention enables dynamic scheduling to be performed on a subframe unit basis, and enables semi-continuous scheduling for continuous data transmission for a D2D communication link.

Claims

1. A method of operating a base station for connection configuration and scheduling for dynamic scheduling of a device-to-device (D2D) link, the method comprising:

performing connection configuration of the D2D link;

receiving a D2D buffer status report from a first terminal that is a transmission terminal in the D2D link;

allocating D2D link resources based on the D2D buffer status report and providing resource allocation information; and

receiving channel state information of the D2D link measured by a second terminal that is a reception terminal in the D2D link.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the D2D link resource allocation information includes:

providing the resource allocation information using separate Downlink Control Information (DCI) for each of transmission and reception allocation information of each of unidirectional links forming the D2D link in which the first and second terminals participate, and using unique identifiers of the respective first and second terminals, or

providing the resource allocation information using a D2D-radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) for the D2D link.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein providing the resource allocation information using the unique identifiers of the respective first and second terminals includes changing a payload size of the DCI or including discrimination information within the DCI in order to determine whether the resource allocation information is one for the D2D link or one for the cellular link and whether the resource allocation information is transmission allocation information or reception allocation information for the D2D link.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein providing the resource allocation information using the D2D-RNTI for the D2D link includes varying the D2D-RNTI with respect to each of the transmission allocation information and the reception allocation information, changing a payload size of the DCI, or including discrimination information within the DCI in order to determine whether the resource allocation information is transmission allocation information or reception allocation information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the D2D link resource allocation information includes providing the resource allocation information by using one DCI for each of unidirectional links forming the D2D link in which the first and second terminals participate, and by providing two D2D-RNTIs common to the first and second terminals participating in the D2D link to each of the first and second terminals, providing one D2D-RNTI common to the first and second terminals participating in the D2D link to each of the first and second terminals and changing a payload size of the DCI, or including discrimination information within the DCI in order to determine to which direction the D2D link resource allocation information is directed between two D2D links.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the D2D link resource allocation information includes providing the resource allocation information to both the first and second terminals using one DCI with respect to a bidirectional link forming the D2D link in which the first and second terminals participate, and using a D2D-RNTI common to the first and second terminals participating in the D2D link.

7. A method of operating a terminal for connection configuration and scheduling for dynamic scheduling of a D2D link, the method comprising:

receiving connection configuration information of the D2D link;

reporting a D2D buffer status of the D2D link to a base station; and

receiving D2D link resource allocation information based on the D2D buffer status report.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein receiving the connection configuration information of the D2D link includes receiving, by the terminal, unique identifier information of a counterpart terminal or connection configuration information for the D2D link including an identifier commonly identifying the terminal itself and the counterpart terminal participating in the D2D link through radio resource control (RRC) signaling from the base station.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein reporting the D2D buffer status to the base station includes transmitting a Buffer Status Report (BSR) to the base station, and

the BSR is defined by extending a BSR for a cellular uplink or is defined to be separate from the BSR for the cellular uplink.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein receiving the D2D link resource allocation information includes:

receiving the resource allocation information using a separate DCI for each of transmission and reception allocation information of each of unidirectional links forming the D2D link, and using a unique identifier of the terminal, or

receiving the resource allocation information using D2D-RNTI(s) for each terminal.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein receiving the D2D link resource allocation information includes:

receiving the resource allocation information using one DCI for each of unidirectional links forming the D2D link, and using a unique identifier of the terminal, or

receiving the resource allocation information using D2D-RNTIs of respective terminals or a D2D-RNTI common to the terminal and a counterpart terminal with respect to each D2D link.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein receiving the D2D link resource allocation information includes receiving the resource allocation information using one DCI with respect to a bidirectional link forming the D2D link, and using a D2D-RNTI common to the terminal and a counterpart terminal participating in the D2D link.

13. A method of operating a base station for connection configuration and scheduling for SPS of a D2D link, the method comprising:

configuring an SPS connection of the D2D link;

activating the SPS of the D2D link;

receiving a D2D buffer status report from a transmission terminal of the D2D link;

receiving channel state information of the D2D link measured by a reception terminal of the D2D link; and

releasing the SPS of the D2D link.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein configuring the SPS connection includes delivering through RRC signaling SPS connection configuration information including SPS C-RNTI information of a counterpart terminal of the D2D link or SPS-D2D-RNTI information commonly designated to the terminal and the counterpart terminal of the D2D link and at least one of an interval of SPS subframes, the number of SPS hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes, and ACK/NAK resource allocation information used for the SPS communication of the D2D link.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein activating the SPS includes including resource allocation information in a separate activation message for each of transmission and reception of each of unidirectional links forming the D2D link using an SPS-C-RNTI of each of terminals participating in the D2D link or using SPS-D2D-RNTI(s) for the D2D link to provide the resource allocation information.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein activating the SPS includes including resource allocation information in one activation message for each of unidirectional links forming the D2D link using an SPS C-RNTI of each of terminals participating in the D2D link or using SPS-D2D-RNTI(s) common to the terminals participating in the D2D link to provide the resource allocation information.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein activating the SPS includes including resource allocation information in one activation message with respect to a bidirectional link forming the D2D link using an SPS-D2D-RNTI common to terminals participating in the D2D link to provide the resource allocation information.

18. A method of operating a terminal for connection configuration and scheduling for SPS of a D2D link, the method comprising:

(a) receiving SPS connection configuration information of the D2D link from a base station;

(b) receiving an SPS activation message of the D2D link from the base station; and

(c) transmitting and receiving data with respect to a counterpart terminal of the D2D link using wireless resources allocated from the base station based on the SPS connection configuration information and the SPS activation message,

wherein D2D buffer status information and/or channel state information of the D2D link is reported to the base station to repeat (a) to (c).

19. The method of claim 18, wherein receiving the SPS connection configuration information includes delivering through RRC signaling SPS connection configuration information including SPS C-RNTI information of the counterpart terminal of the D2D link or SPS-D2D-RNTI information commonly designated to the terminal and the counterpart terminal of the D2D link and at least one of an interval of SPS subframes, the number of SPS HARQ processes, and ACK/NAK resource allocation information used for SPS communication of the D2D link.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein receiving the SPS activation message includes including resource allocation information in a separate activation message for each of transmission and reception of each of unidirectional links forming the D2D link, including resource allocation information in one activation message for each of unidirectional links forming the D2D link, or including resource allocation information in one activation message with respect to a bidirectional link forming the D2D link using an SPS-C-RNTI of each of terminals participating in the D2D link or an SPS-D2D-RNTI common to the terminals participating in the D2D link to receive the SPS activation message.