Scheduling method for inter-terminal direct communication in wireless communication system, and device for same

• US 9,888,459 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2013
• Issued: 02/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seo, Hanbyul, Kim, Hakseong
• Primary Examiner(s): Sweet, Lonnie
• Application Number:
  US14/650,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20150319745A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,526 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Disclosed in the present application is a method for a terminal to perform inter-terminal direct communication in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises: a step for receiving, in a random access phase, random access signals from at least one counterpart terminal; and a step, in a resource allocation phase, for using information for scheduling included in the random access signals to allocate resources for the at least one counterpart terminal, and then transmitting the information of the allocated resources to the at least one counterpart terminal, wherein one time unit for inter-terminal direct communication comprises the random access phase, the resource allocation phase, and a phase for the implementation of inter-terminal direct communication.

Claims

1. A method for supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a reference signal in every candidate time location when a value of a generated random number at every candidate time location is larger than a reference value; and

determining that the UE is a scheduling UE, when the UE transmits the reference signal prior to respective peer UEs,

wherein, when the UE is determined as the scheduling UE, the method further comprises;

receiving random access signals from the respective peer UEs in a random access period;

allocating resources for the respective peer UEs using scheduling information comprised by the random access signals; and

transmitting information about the resources allocated for the respective peer UEs through respective different sub-periods included in a resource allocation period, and

wherein a position of the respective different sub-periods through which the UE transmits the information about the resources allocated for the respective peer UEs corresponds to a position of the allocated resources to the respective peer UEs among a plurality of resource units which appear after the resource allocation period.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the random access signals are generated based on at least one of UE identifiers (IDs) of the respective peer UEs, the amounts of traffic to be transmitted by the respective peer UEs through the D2D communication, and UE identifiers of target UEs of the D2D communication.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the random access period is divided into a plurality of random access sub-periods, and

wherein each of the respective peer UEs transmits the random access signal in a corresponding random access sub-period.

4. The method according to claim 1,

wherein one time unit for the D2D communication comprises the random access period, the resource allocation period, and a period for performing the D2D communication, and

wherein one time unit for the D2D communication comprises a period in which the D2D communication is interrupted.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the information about the allocated resources to the peer UEs comprises repeatedly transmitting the random access signals received from the respective peer UEs.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reference signal comprises information about a subframe boundary corresponding to the UE.

7. A user equipment (UE) for supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor configured to;

control the transceiver to transmit and receive signals to and from a base station (BS) or one or more peer UEs,

control the transceiver to transmit a reference signal in every candidate time location when a value of a generated random number at every candidate time location is greater than a reference value, and

determine that the UE is a scheduling UE, when the UE transmits the reference signal prior to respective peer UEs,

wherein, when the UE is determined as the scheduling UE, the processor is further configured to;

control the transceiver to receive random access signals from the respective peer UEs in a random access period,

allocate resources for the respective peer UEs using scheduling information comprised by the random access signals, and

control the transceiver to transmit information about the resources allocated for the respective peer UEs through respective different sub-periods included in a resource allocation period, and

wherein a position of the respective different sub-periods through which the transceiver transmits the information about the resources allocated for the respective peer UEs corresponds to a position of the allocated resources to the respective peer UEs among a plurality of resource units which appear after the resource allocation period.

8. The UE according to claim 7, wherein the random access signals are generated based on at least one of UE identifiers (IDs) of the respective peer UEs, the amounts of traffic to be transmitted by the respective peer UEs through the D2D communication, and UE identifiers of target UEs of the D2D communication.

9. The UE according to claim 7, wherein the random access period is divided into a plurality of random access sub-periods, and

wherein each of the respective peer UEs transmits the random access signal in a corresponding random access sub-period.

10. The UE according to claim 7,

wherein one time unit for the D2D communication comprises the random access period, the resource allocation period, and a period for performing the D2D communication, and

wherein one time unit for the D2D communication comprises a period in which the D2D communication is interrupted.

11. The UE according to claim 7, wherein the processor controls the transceiver to repeatedly transmit the random access signals received by the transceiver from the respective peer UEs to transmit the information about the allocated resources to the peer UEs.

12. The UE according to claim 7, wherein the reference signal comprises information about a subframe boundary corresponding to the UE.