Methods and arrangements for device discovery

• US 9,807,774 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2014
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Sorrentino, Stefano
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US14/400,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20160270085A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,120 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0045 Arrangements at the receiver end
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/037 of the control plane, e.g. signalling traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/61 Time-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/54 based on quality criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for transmission of discovery signal signals and detection of discovery signal signals for device-to-device communication. According to some aspects, the disclosure relates to a method executed in a first wireless terminal for transmitting a control signal for enabling device-to-device, D2D, discovery, wherein the control signal carries an identity. According to one aspect, the method comprises hashing the control signal, taking a time stamp used for the control signal transmission as one input parameter, encoding the hashed control signal and transmitting the encoded signal.

Claims

1. A method executed in a first wireless terminal for transmitting a control signal enabling device-to-device (D2D) discovery, wherein the control signal carries an identity, the method comprising:

hashing the control signal, taking a time stamp used for the control signal transmission as one input parameter;

encoding the hashed control signal; and

transmitting the encoded signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identity comprises an identity of the first wireless terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the identity comprises one portion that is shared by several wireless terminals.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the control signal comprises signal payload and wherein the method further comprises inserting the time stamp used for control signal transmission in the payload of the control signal, before hashing the control signal.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises scrambling the encoded signal.

6. A first wireless terminal adapted for transmitting a control signal enabling device-to-device (D2D) discovery, wherein the control signal carries an identity, the first wireless terminal comprising:

processing circuitry adapted to cause the wireless terminal to hash the control signal, taking a time stamp used for the control signal transmission as one input parameter;

baseband circuitry adapted to encode the hashed control signal; and

transmit circuitry adapted to transmit the encoded signal.

7. The first wireless terminal of claim 6, wherein the identity comprises an identity of the first wireless terminal.

8. The first wireless terminal of claim 6, wherein the identity comprises a ProSe user identity or an application layer user identity, or both.

9. The first wireless terminal of claim 6, wherein the control signal comprises signal payload and wherein the processing circuitry is further adapted to insert the time stamp used for control signal transmission in the payload of the control signal, before hashing the control signal.

10. A wireless terminal of claim 6 wherein the first wireless terminal is a user equipment.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising, stored thereupon, a computer program comprising computer readable code that, when run on a wireless terminal, causes the wireless terminal to:

hash a control signal enabling device-to-device (D2D) discovery, wherein the control signal carries an identity, taking a time stamp used for the control signal transmission as one input parameter to the hashing of the control signal;

encode the hashed control signal; and

transmit the encoded signal.