Device to-device (D2D) transmit behavior

• US 9,706,591 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2015
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Panteleev, Sergey, Khoryaev, Alexey, Chatterjee, Debdeep, Sosnin, Sergey
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh-Vu
• Application Number:
  US14/701,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20160128115A1
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/121 for groups of terminals or users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/34 Selective release of ongoing connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

In embodiments, apparatuses, methods, and storage media may be described for mapping media access control (MAC) protocol data units (PDUs) that are used to transmit scheduling assignment (SA) discovery, and/or device-to-device (D2D) data. Embodiments herein may describe how one or more MAC PDUs may be mapped into a time resource pattern for transmissions (T-RPT). Embodiments herein may further describe examples of how and when a UE may skip subframes in transmissions of the SA and/or data. Additionally, embodiments herein may further describe examples of how a UE may behave if the UE cannot transmit one or more scheduled instances of SA or data. Additionally, embodiments herein may describe resolution of collisions of D2D discovery messages in the time domain. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claims

1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

device-to-device (D2D) circuitry to;

identify that a first sidelink transmission by the UE is to be transmitted in a same subframe as a second sidelink transmission by the UE; and

identify, based on a type of the first sidelink transmission and a type of the second sidelink transmission, that the UE is to continue to transmit the first sidelink transmission and that the UE is to drop the second sidelink transmission; and

interface control circuitry coupled with the D2D circuitry, the interface control circuitry to transmit, based on the identification that the UE is to drop the second sidelink transmission, the first sidelink transmission on the subframe;

wherein the first sidelink transmission is a Type 2B D2D discovery transmission, and the second sidelink transmission is a Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

2. The UE of claim 1, wherein the D2D circuitry is to identify that the first sidelink transmission by the UE is to be transmitted in the same subframe as the second sidelink transmission based on an identification that the first sidelink transmission is to collide in a time domain as the second sidelink transmission.

3. The UE of claim 1, wherein the D2D circuitry is further to identify, in a message received from an evolved NodeB (eNB), an allocation of resources for the Type 2B D2D discovery transmission.

4. The UE of claim 1, wherein the D2D circuitry is further to identify that a priority of the Type 2B D2D discovery transmission is higher than a priority of the Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

5. The UE of claim 1, wherein the D2D circuitry is further to select one or more physical resources for transmission of the Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

6. The UE of claim 1, wherein the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission are D2D transmissions.

7. The UE of claim 1, further comprising a non-volatile memory (NVM) coupled with the interface control circuitry.

8. A processor comprising:

device-to-device (D2D) circuitry to;

identify that a first sidelink transmission by a user equipment (UE) on a resource of a discovery resource period is to collide in a time domain with a second sidelink transmission by the UE;

identify, based on a type of the first sidelink transmission and a type of the second sidelink transmission, that the UE is to continue to transmit the first sidelink transmission and that the UE is to drop the second sidelink transmission; and

transmit, based on the identification that the UE is to drop the second sidelink transmission, the first sidelink transmission on the resource; and

a baseband processor coupled with the D2D circuitry, the baseband processor to perform signal modulation and encoding;

wherein the first sidelink transmission is a Type 2B D2D discovery transmission, and the second sidelink transmission is a Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

9. The processor of claim 8, wherein the discovery resource period is a subframe.

10. The processor of claim 8, wherein the D2D circuitry is further to identify, in a message received from an evolved NodeB (eNB), an allocation of resources for the Type 2B D2D discovery transmission.

11. The processor of claim 8, wherein the processor is further to identify that a priority of the Type 2B D2D discovery transmission is higher than a priority of the Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

12. The processor of claim 8, wherein the processor is further to select one or more physical resources for transmission of the Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

13. The processor of claim 8, wherein the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission are D2D transmissions.

14. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions to cause a user equipment (UE), upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors of the UE, to:

identify that a first sidelink transmission by the UE on a resource of a discovery resource period is to collide in a time domain with a second sidelink transmission by the UE;

identify, based on a type of the first sidelink transmission and a type of the second sidelink transmission, that the UE is to continue to transmit the first sidelink transmission and that the UE is to drop the second sidelink transmission; and

transmit, based on the identification that the UE is to drop the second sidelink transmission, the first sidelink transmission on the resource;

wherein the first sidelink transmission is a Type 2B device-to-device (D2D) discovery transmission, and the second sidelink transmission is a Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the discovery resource period is a subframe.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the instructions are further to identify, in a message received from an evolved NodeB (eNB), an allocation of resources for the Type 2B D2D discovery transmission.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the instructions are further to identify that a priority of the Type 2B D2D discovery transmission is higher than a priority of the Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the instructions are further to select one or more physical resources for transmission of the Type 1 D2D discovery transmission.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission are D2D transmissions.