Scheduling method between terminals for search resource allocation in direct device to device communication and device thereof

• US 9,848,398 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2014
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ueran Technology LLC
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Seunghoon, Ryu, Hyunseok, Lim, Chiwoo
• Primary Examiner(s): TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN
• Application Number:
  US15/038,028
• Publication Number:
  US 20160302053A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0025 synchronizing potentially movable access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

The present invention relates to a scheduling method between terminals for a search resource allocation in direct device to device communication and a device thereof. The present invention relates to, as a search resource allocation method of a terminal which performs device to device (D2D) communication, a proximity searching method and a device thereof, and the method comprises the steps of: transmitting and receiving a signal through a wireless resource determined so as to explicitly or implicitly transmit and receive a contention index of the terminal; selecting a search resource on the basis of a response signal when the response signal is received through the wireless resource; and performing a search for the D2D communication by using the selected search resource.

Claims

1. A method of allocating discovery resources of a terminal configured to perform device-to-device (D2D) communication comprising:

transmitting a request signal including a contention index of the terminal on a wireless resource;

if a response signal is received on the wireless resource in response to the request signal, selecting a discovery resource corresponding to the contention index of the terminal based on the response signal; and

performing discovery for the D2D communication using the selected discovery resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the contention index is determined:

based on at least one of information regarding the contention index received from a base station (eNB), a scheduling identifier of the terminal, or information regarding a frame to transmit signals;

or

by the terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the discovery resource comprises:

if the response signal is not received on the wireless resource in response to the request signal, abandoning the selection of the discovery resource.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the discovery resource comprises:

comparing the contention index of the terminal with contention indexes of one or more other terminals, contained in the response signal; and

if the contention index of the terminal is higher than the contention indexes of the one or more other terminals, selecting the discovery resource corresponding to the wireless resource.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the request signal is transmitted in a first interval of a frame for the discovery;

the response signal is received in a second interval of the frame for the discovery; and

the discovery for the D2D communication is performed in a third interval of the frame for the discovery.

6. A method of allocating discovery resources of a terminal configured to perform device-to-device (D2D) communication comprising:

receiving a request signal including a contention index of an other terminal on a wireless resource;

transmitting a response signal on the wireless resource based on information contained in the request signal; and

performing discovery for the D2D communication with the other terminal using a discovery resource corresponding to the contention index of the other terminal.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the contention indexes is determined:

based on at least one of information regarding the each of the contention indexes received from a base station, scheduling identifiers of the one or more other terminals, or information regarding a frame to transmit signals; and

by the one or more other terminals.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein transmitting the response signal further comprises:

transmitting the response signal to the other terminal if the contention index is a highest contention index among contention indexes.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the response signal contains contention indexes of the one or more other terminals; and

the contention indexes of the one or more other terminals, contained in the response signal, are used by the one or more other terminals to select a resource for the discovery, based on the contention indexes.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein:

the request signal is received in a first interval of a frame for the discovery;

the response signal is transmitted in a second interval of the frame for the discovery; and

the discovery for the D2D communication is performed in a third interval of the frame for the discovery.

11. A terminal of device-to-device (D2D) communication comprising:

a communication unit configured to perform data communication with a base station and one or more other terminals; and

a controller controlling the communication unit, the controller is configured to;

transmit a request signal including a contention index of the terminal on a wireless resource;

select, if a response signal is received on a wireless resource in response to the request signal, a discovery resource corresponding to the contention index of the terminal based on the response signal; and

perform discovery for the D2D communication using the selected discovery resource.

12. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the contention index is determined:

based on at least one of information regarding the contention index received from the base station, a scheduling identifier of the terminal, and information regarding a frame to transmit signals;

or

by the terminal.

13. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to:

abandon the selected discovery resource if the response signal is not received on the wireless resource in response to the request signal.

14. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to:

compare the contention index of the terminal with contention indexes of the one or more other terminals, contained in the response signal; and

select the discovery resource corresponding to the wireless resource if the contention index of the terminal is higher than the contention indexes of the one or more other terminals.

15. The terminal of claim 11, wherein:

the request signal is transmitted in a first interval of a frame for the discovery;

the response signal is received in a second interval of the frame for the discovery; and

the controller is further configured to perform the discovery for the D2D communication in a third interval of the frame for the discovery.

16. A terminal configured to perform device-to-device (D2D) communication comprising:

a communication unit configured to perform data communication with a base station (eNB) and one or more other terminals; and

a controller controlling the communication unit, the controller is configured to;

receive a request signal including a contention index of an other terminal on a wireless resource;

transmit a response signal on the wireless resource based on information contained in the received request signal; and

perform discovery for the D2D communication with the other terminal using a discovery resource corresponding to the contention index of the other terminal.

17. The terminal of claim 16, wherein the contention indexes is determined:

based on at least one of information regarding the each of the contention indexes received from the base station, scheduling identifiers of the one or more other terminals, or information regarding a frame to transmit signals;

or

by the one or more other terminals.

18. The terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to control the communication unit to transmit the response signal to the other terminal if the contention index is a highest priority contention index among contention indexes.

19. The terminal of claim 17, wherein:

the response signal contains contention indexes of the one or more other terminals; and

the contention indexes of the one or more other terminals, contained in the response signal, are used by the one or more other terminals to select a resource for the discovery based on the contention indexes.

20. The terminal of claim 16, wherein:

the request signal is received in a first interval of a frame for the discovery;

the response signal is transmitted in a second interval of the frame for the discovery; and

the discovery for the D2D communication is performed in a third interval of the frame for discovery.