Mobile communication system, transmission-side terminal, mobile communication method and processor

• US 9,532,294 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Fujishiro, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi H
• Assistant Examiner(s): HYUN, SOON D
• Application Number:
  US14/408,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20150373616A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,281 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0097 Relays
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/12 based on transmission quality or channel quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

The mobile communication system directly performs user-data communication between a plurality of radio terminals without involvement of a radio base station. The user-data communication directly performed between the plurality of radio terminals is performed by using a part of radio resources assigned to the mobile communication system. The plurality of radio terminals comprise: a transmission-side terminal that transmits the user data; and a reception-side terminal that receives the user data. The reception-side terminal comprises: a reception-side transmission unit that transmits a transmission acknowledgement signal indicating whether the user data transmitted from the transmission-side terminal has been able to receive or not. The reception-side transmission unit transmits the transmission acknowledgement signal to the radio base station.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system, comprising:

a first radio terminal;

a second radio terminal; and

a base station, wherein

the first radio terminal directly transmits user data to the second radio terminal by device to device (D2D) communication,

the second radio terminal transmits a first radio signal,

the first radio signal indicates whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

the base station receives the first radio signal from the second radio terminal,

the base station transmits a second radio signal to the first radio terminal in response to a reception of the first radio signal,

the second radio signal indicates whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

the first radio terminal receives the second radio signal form the base station, and

the first radio terminal determines whether to retransmit the user data to the second radio terminal on a basis of the first radio signal without use of the second radio signal in response to a communication state of the D2D communication exceeding a threshold value.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein, the second radio terminal transmits the first radio signal to the base station in response to the communication state being below a threshold value.

3. A first radio terminal, comprising:

a transmitter that directly transmits user data to a second radio terminal by device to device (D2D) communication,

a receiver that directly receives a first radio signal from the second radio terminal, wherein

the first radio signal indicates whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

the receiver further receives a second radio signal from a base station,

the second radio signal indicates whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

the first radio terminal further comprises a controller that determines whether to retransmit the user data to the second radio terminal, and

the controller determines whether to retransmit the user data to the second radio terminal, on a basis of the first radio signal without use of the second radio signal in response to a communication state of the D2D communication exceeding a threshold value.

4. A first radio terminal, comprising:

a transmitter that directly transmits user data to a second radio terminal by device to device (D2D) communication,

a receiver that directly receives a first radio signal from the second radio terminal, wherein

the first radio signal indicates whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

the receiver further receives a second radio signal from a base station,

the second radio signal indicates whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

the first radio terminal further comprises a controller that determines whether to retransmit the user data to the second radio terminal, and

the controller notifies the base station of whether to use to the second radio signal for the determination.

5. A mobile communication method, comprising:

directly transmitting, by a first radio terminal, user data to a second radio terminal by device to device (D2D) communication;

transmitting, by the second user terminal, a first radio signal indicating whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

directly receiving, by the first radio terminal, the first radio signal from the second radio terminal,

receiving, by a base station, the first radio signal from the second radio terminal,

transmitting, by the base station, a second radio signal to the first radio terminal, the second radio signal indicating whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

receiving, by the first radio terminal, the second radio signal from the base station,

determining, by the first radio terminal, whether to retransmit the user data to the second radio terminal on a basis of the first radio signal without use of the second radio signal in response to a communication state of the D2D communication exceeding a threshold value.

6. A processing system for controlling a first radio terminal comprising a processor, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the processor configured to:

directly transmit user data to a second radio terminal by device to device (D2D) communication, and

directly receive a first radio signal from the second radio terminal, the first radio signal indicating whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data,

further receive a second radio signal from a base station, the second radio signal indicating whether or not the second radio terminal has received the user data, and

determine whether to retransmit the user data to the second radio terminal, wherein

in the determination, the processor determines whether to retransmit the user data to the second radio terminal, on a basis of the first radio signal without use of the second radio signal in response to a communication state of the D2D communication exceeding a threshold value.