Apparatus and method for interference avoidance in mixed device-to-device and cellular environment
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- collecting a set of neighbor cellular user equipment (UE) interferences from at least one neighbor cellular UE at a device-to-device (D2D) UE at least in part based on a decoded first uplink radio resource management (RRM) message;
computing a first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences based on the set of collected neighbor cellular UE interferences;
predicting at least one interference scenario at least in part based on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences and a decoded second uplink RRM message;
selecting a resource for data transmission to a pairing D2D UE based at least in part on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences; and
transmitting data over the selected resource to the pairing D2D UE.
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Abstract
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed that comprises collecting a set of neighbor cellular user equipment (UE) interferences from at least one neighbor cellular UE at a device-to-device (D2D) UE at least in part based on a decoded first uplink radio resource management (RRM) message and computing a first set of average neighbor UE interferences based on the set of collected neighbor cellular UE interferences. The method also comprises predicting at least one interference scenario at least in part based on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences and a decoded second uplink RRM message. The method also comprises selecting a resource for data transmission to a pairing D2D UE at least in part based on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences, and transmitting data over the selected resource to the pairing D2D UE.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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collecting a set of neighbor cellular user equipment (UE) interferences from at least one neighbor cellular UE at a device-to-device (D2D) UE at least in part based on a decoded first uplink radio resource management (RRM) message; computing a first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences based on the set of collected neighbor cellular UE interferences; predicting at least one interference scenario at least in part based on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences and a decoded second uplink RRM message; selecting a resource for data transmission to a pairing D2D UE based at least in part on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences; and transmitting data over the selected resource to the pairing D2D UE. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus, comprising:
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a first module configured to compute a first set of average neighbor cellular user equipment (UE) interferences based on a set of collected neighbor cellular UE interferences; to predict an interference scenario at least in part based on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences and a decoded second uplink radio resource management (RRM) message; and to select a resource for data transmission to a pairing device-to-device (D2D) UE at least in part based on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences; and a second module configured to collect the set of neighbor cellular UE interferences from at least one neighbor cellular UE at least in part based on a decoded first uplink RRM message; and to transmit data over the selected resource. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium bearing computer program code embodied therein for use with a computer, the computer program code comprising:
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code for collecting a set of neighbor cellular user equipment (UE) interferences from at least one neighbor cellular UE at a device-to-device (D2D) UE at least in part based on a decoded first uplink radio resource management (RRM) message; code for computing a first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences in part based on the set of collected neighbor cellular UE interferences; code for predicting an interference scenario at least in part based on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences and a second uplink RRM message; code for selecting a resource for data transmission to a pairing D2D UE based on the first set of average neighbor cellular UE interferences; and code for transmitting data over the selected resource to the pairing D2D UE.
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