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Methods and devices for allocating resources in device-to-device communication

  • US 9,392,615 B2
  • Filed: 09/27/2013
  • Issued: 07/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method in a base station of a wireless network, the base station in communication with at least a first mobile station and a second mobile station the method comprising:

  • allocating, in the base station, a first radio resource for a Device-to-Device (“

    D2D”

    ) group, wherein the D2D group comprises the first mobile station and the second mobile station;

    generating, in the base station, a control message, wherein the control message indicates that the first mobile station should transmit using the first radio resource and the second mobile station should receive using the first radio resource, wherein generating the control message comprises;

    generating a control message that includes a bitmap, wherein the bitmap incudes a first grant-indicator bit for the first mobile station and a second grant-indicator bit for the second mobile station;

    setting the first grant-indicator bit to a transmit vale that indicates that the first mobile station should transmit using the first radio resource; and

    setting the second grant-indicator bit to a receive value to indicate that the second mobile station should receive using the first radio resource; and

    sending, by the base station, the control message to the first and second mobile stations.

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