Method for obtaining traffic information using local area communication, and apparatus therefor

• US 9,961,530 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2014
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Hakseong, Kim, Byounghoon
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Peter
• Application Number:
  US14/909,688
• Publication Number:
  US 20160192172A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,366 Days
• Field of Search: 370329
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3694 Output thereof on a road map
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for obtaining traffic information by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of: broadcasting a first D2D discovery signal requesting traffic information to a plurality of first surrounding terminals; receiving, in response to the first D2D discovery signal, a second D2D discovery signal indicating surrounding traffic information from one or more second surrounding terminals among the plurality of first surrounding terminals; and updating the traffic information of the surrounding area on the basis of the one or more second D2D discovery signals.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring traffic information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a first device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal requesting traffic information to a plurality of first neighboring UEs;

receiving, in response to the first D2D discovery signal, one or more second D2D discovery signals including identifications of one or more second neighboring UEs from the one or more second neighboring UEs among the plurality of first neighboring UEs; and

updating traffic information of a surrounding area based on a number of the received one or more second D2D discovery signals,

wherein the one or more second D2D discovery signals are transmitted from the one or more second neighboring UEs, when a number of third neighboring UEs located within a first distance from the one or more second neighboring UEs exceeds a reference number,

wherein no additional second D2D discovery signals are received within a certain time period, after receiving one of the one or more second D2D discovery signals from the one or more second neighboring UEs among the plurality of first neighboring UEs, and

wherein the plurality of first neighboring UEs are located within a second distance from the UE.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving additional traffic information about the one or more second neighboring UEs from an eNB,

wherein the traffic information of the surrounding area is updated on a basis of based on the traffic information and the additional traffic information.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising overlaying the updated traffic information of the surrounding area on a display of a vehicle navigation system displaying traffic maps.

4. A user equipment (UE) used in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to transmit a first device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal requesting traffic information to a plurality of first neighboring UEs, to receive, in response to the first D2D discovery signal, one or more second D2D discovery signals including identifications of one or more second neighboring UEs from the one or more second neighboring UEs among the plurality of first neighboring UEs, and

to update traffic information of a surrounding area based on a number of the received one or more second D2D discovery signals,

wherein the one or more second D2D discovery signals are transmitted from the one or more second neighboring UEs, when a number of third neighboring UEs located within a first distance from the one or more second neighboring UEs exceeds a reference number,

wherein no additional second D2D discovery signals are received within a certain time period, after receiving one of the one or more second D2D discovery signals from the one or more second neighboring UEs among the plurality of first neighboring UEs, and

wherein the plurality of first neighboring UEs are located within a second distance from the UE.

5. The UE according to claim 4, wherein the processor is configured to receive additional traffic information about the one or more second neighboring UEs from an eNB,

wherein the traffic information of the surrounding area is updated on a basis of based on the traffic information and the additional traffic information.

6. The UE according to claim 4, wherein the processor is configured to overlay the updated traffic information of the surrounding area on a display of a vehicle navigation system displaying traffic maps.