DEVICE-TO-DEVICE DISCOVERY METHOD IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20160192426A1
• Filed: 08/06/2014
• Published: 06/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: NOH, Taegyun, LEE, Kyoung Seok, YEH, Choongil, AHN, Jae Young
• Application Number:
  US14/910,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20160192426A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a device-to-device discovery method in a wireless communication system. A device determines whether a first subframe for a physical layer uplink channel or signal and a second subframe for the discovery signal are the same. The device transmits the physical layer uplink channel or signal without transmitting or receiving the discovery signal, in the same subframe, when the first subframe and the second subframe are the same.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting a discovery signal by a device, comprising:

determining whether a first period for a physical layer uplink channel or signal and a second period for the discovery signal are overlapping; and

if the first period and the second period are overlapping and the physical layer uplink channel or signal is transmitted in the overlapping period, not transmitting the discovery channel signal in the overlapping period.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising

receiving a resource configuration for transmitting the discovery signal from a base station.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein

the resource configuration include an offset information, a bitmap information, and a repetition information of the bitmap.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein

the offset information indicates a position at which the bitmap starts.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein

the resource configuration is received from the base station through radio resource control signaling.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

the first period for the physical layer uplink data channel or signal is a subframe transmitting a physical layer uplink control channel.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein

the first period is a subframe cell-specifically configured to transmit a sounding reference signal.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein

the first is a subframe in which a resource region of a physical random access channel is included.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein

the device is a device transmitting the physical random access channel.

10. A method for transmitting or receiving a discovery signal by a device, comprising:

determining whether a physical random access channel is transmitted in a subframe in which a resource region of the physical random access channel is included; and

if it is determined that the physical random access channel is not transmitted in the subframe, transmitting or receiving the discovery signal in the rest of the resource excluding the resource region of the physical random access channel and the physical layer uplink control channel from the subframe.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein

the subframe is a subframe being excluded from a subframe cell-specifically configured to transmit a sounding reference signal, a subframe transmitting a physical layer uplink data channel, or a subframe transmitting the physical layer uplink control channel.

12. A method for transmitting a discovery signal by a device, the method comprising:

receiving discovery resource information indicating discovery resource for transmitting the discovery signal from a base station; and

transmitting the discovery signal by using the discovery resource information,

wherein the discovery resource information includes discovery period information indicating discovery period for transmitting the discovery signal, subframe bitmap indicating subframes used for transmitting the discovery signal, and offset information indicating start subframe of the discovery period.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein

the discovery resource information further includes repetition information indicating repetition times of the subframe bitmap during the discovery period.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein

the discovery resource information is received by RRC (Radio Resource Control) signaling.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving random access information indicating random access resource from the base station,

wherein, if the random access resource is overlapping with the discovery resource indicated by the discovery resource information, the overlapped resource is excluded from the discovery resource for transmitting the discovery signal.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein,

if the device transmits uplink signal through the random access resource, the device doesn'"'"'t transmit the discovery signal.

17. A method for transmitting a discovery signal to a counterpart device by a plurality of devices, comprising:

dividing the plurality of devices into a group including a first device group and a second device group;

dividing a resource region used to transmit the discovery signal into a group including a first resource group and a second resource group;

transmitting, by the first device group, the discovery signal using the first resource group, in a first period;

transmitting, by the second device group, the discovery signal using the second resource group, in the first period;

transmitting, by the second device group, the discovery signal using the first resource group, in a second period; and

transmitting, by the first device group, the discovery signal using the second resource group, in the second period.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein

the first resource group has a smaller amount of resources than the second resource group.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein

the dividing of the plurality of devices includes dividing the plurality of devices into a group including the first device group, the second device group, and a third device group, and

the method further comprises:

transmitting, by the third device group, the discovery signal using the second resource group, in the first period and the second period;

transmitting, by the third device group, the discovery signal using the first resource group, in a third period; and

transmitting, by the first device group and the second device group, the discovery signal using the second resource group, in the third period.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein

the dividing of the plurality of devices includes:

informing, by a base station, the plurality of devices of the number of groups; and

selecting, by each of the plurality of devices, their own groups using a hash function.