Wireless communication method, base station and wireless communication device

• US 9,867,186 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2013
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Xu, Xiaodong, Zhang, Danting, Wang, Da, Yang, Chengcheng, Takano, Hiroaki, Qin, Zhongbin
• Primary Examiner(s): Orgad, Edan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Song, Rebecca
• Application Number:
  US14/764,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20150373719A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/20 Master-slave selection or change arrangements

Abstract

A wireless communication method, a base station and a wireless communication device. The wireless communication method includes: in case that communication devices which are to perform communication are estimated to satisfy a condition for device-to-device direct communication, transmitting a control signaling from a base station to the communication devices, the control signaling allocating a carrier for the device-to-device direct communication; and performing the device-to-device direct communication between the communication devices using the allocated carrier, wherein the base station allocates the carrier for the device-to-device direct communication from conventional carrier, stand-alone new-type carrier and non-stand-alone new-type carrier, wherein the new-type carrier has a reduced number of control channels as compared with the conventional carrier.

Claims

1. A method of controlling wireless communication by a base station, the method comprising:

determining whether communication devices which are to perform communication satisfy a condition for device-to-device direct communication, and

in case that the condition is satisfied, transmitting a control signaling to the communication devices, the control signaling allocating a carrier for the device-to-device direct communication,

wherein the base station allocates the carrier for the device-to-device direct communication from conventional carrier, stand-alone new-type carrier and non-stand-alone new-type carrier, wherein the new-type carriers have a reduced number of control channels as compared with the conventional carrier, control signaling being transmitted using the conventional carrier for the device-to-device direct communication, and data transmission being performed using the non-stand-alone new-type carrier for the device-to-device direct communication.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the allocated carrier for the device-to-device direct communication comprises an aggregated carrier consisting of the non-stand-alone new-type carrier and the conventional carrier, wherein the conventional carrier is designated to transmit control signaling, and the non-stand-alone new-type carrier is designated to transmit data between the communication devices.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control signaling is transmitted to the communication devices through broadcast system information or proprietary information for specific communication device, the control signaling indicating the information on and/or supported frequency range of the carrier that can be used for the device-to-device direct communication.

4. The method according to claim 1, where a communication target device and a communication initiating device are in the same cell or in adjacent cells, determining whether the communication devices satisfy the condition for the device-to-device direct communication according to one or more of the following elements:

relative movement state of the communication initiating device and the communication target device, whether the communication devices support a manner for the device-to-device direct communication, user security permission of the communication devices, and data volume to be transmitted through the communication.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a corresponding communication device is a master communication device or a slave communication device, and

the step of transmitting control signaling to the communication device comprises;

in case that the corresponding communication device is a master communication device;

determining the carrier for the device-to-device direct communication, transmitting a control signaling to the master communication device, and informing a cell of a slave communication device to transmit a corresponding control signaling, wherein the master communication device is designated to perform control during the device-to-device direct communication;

in case that the corresponding communication device is a slave communication device;

transmitting a control signaling to the slave communication device based on a notification from the cell of the master communication device.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the master communication device and the slave communication device are determined according to one or more of the following conditions:

intensity of a signal received from the corresponding base station, power loss during transmission of a signal received from the corresponding base station, a distance to the corresponding base station and whether the communication device is a communication initiating device or a communication target device.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when it is detected that the condition for the device-to-device direct communication is not satisfied or information indicating that the condition for the device-to-device direct communication is not satisfied is received from the communication device, performing data transmission by activating an original logical connection, and setting logical connection and communication resource for the device-to-device direct communication into an inactive state.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

after the device-to-device direct communication is stopped, retaining the logical connection and communication resource for the device-to-device direct communication for a predetermined period of time, if the condition for the device-to-device direct communication is re-satisfied in the predetermined period of time, activating the logical connection and communication resource for the device-to-device direct communication, and deactivating the logical connection for network data transmission, to resume the device-to-device direct communication;

in case that the condition for the device-to-device direct communication is still not satisfied after the predetermined period of time, releasing the logical connection and communication resource for the device-to-device direct communication.

9. A non-transitory computer storage medium comprising computer readable instructions for causing a computer to perform the method according to claim 1.

10. An apparatus in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprises circuitry including a processor and a memory for storing computer instructions in the memory and executing the computer instructions stored in the memory by the processor to perform the method according to claim 1.

11. A method of performing a wireless communication by a communication device, the method comprising:

receiving a control signaling from a base station, the control signaling allocating a carrier for device-to-device direct communication; and

performing the device-to-device direct communication with an object communication device using the allocated carrier,

wherein the carrier for the device-to-device direct communication comprises carrier for the device-to-device direct communication allocated from conventional carrier, stand-alone new-type carrier and non-stand-alone new-type carrier, wherein the new-type carriers have a reduced number of control channels as compared with the conventional carrier, control signaling being transmitted using the conventional carrier for the device-to-device direct communication, and data transmission being performed using the non-stand-alone new-type carrier for the device-to-device direct communication.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein based on a control signaling from the base station, the device-to-device direct communication with the object communication device is performed with an aggregated carrier consisting of the non-stand-alone new-type carrier and the conventional carrier, wherein control signaling transmission is performed with the conventional carrier, and data transmission with the object communication device is performed with the non-stand-alone new-type carrier.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein in case of being designated as a master communication device by the control signaling transmitted from the base station, performing control and/or communication with the base station during the device-to-device direct communication.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the device-to-device direct communication is performed in the following communication manner:

a communication manner based on long term evolution or advanced long term evolution, or a communication manner based on wireless local area network.

15. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

in case of being in the same cell as the object communication device or in an adjacent cell of the object communication device, performing a peer to peer detection with the object communication device to determine whether a condition for the device-to-device direct communication is satisfied.

16. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

in case that the device-to-device direct communication is not satisfied during the device-to-device direct communication, transmitting information indicating that the device-to-device direct communication is not satisfied to a corresponding base station.

17. A base station, comprising:

circuitry including a processor and a memory, the circuitry configured to;

determine whether communication devices which are to perform communication satisfy a condition for device-to-device direct communication, and

in case that the condition is satisfied, transmit a control signaling to the communication devices, the control signaling allocating a carrier for the device-to-device direct communication,

wherein the carrier for the device-to-device direct communication comprises carrier for the device-to-device direct communication allocated from conventional carrier, stand-alone new-type carrier and non-stand-alone new-type carrier, wherein the new-type carriers have a reduced number of control channels as compared with the conventional carrier, control signaling being transmitted using the conventional carrier for the device-to-device direct communication, and data transmission being performed using the non-stand-alone new-type carrier for the device-to-device direct communication.

18. A wireless communication device, comprising:

circuitry including a processor and a memory, the circuitry configured to;

receive a control signaling from a base station, the control signaling allocating a carrier for device-to-device direct communication; and

perform the device-to-device direct communication with an object communication device using the allocated carrier,

wherein the carrier for the device-to-device direct communication comprises carrier for the device-to-device direct communication allocated from conventional carrier, stand-alone new-type carrier and non-stand-alone new-type carrier, wherein the new-type carriers have a reduced number of control channels as compared with the conventional carrier, control signaling being transmitted using the conventional carrier for the device-to-device direct communication, and data transmission being performed using, the non-stand-alone new-type carrier for the device-to-device direct communication.