Transitory tangible computer-readable storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12598448-B2
Application number	US-202318102192-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2023
Priority date	Jul 30, 2020
Publication date	Apr 7, 2026
Grant date	Apr 7, 2026

Abstract

A method performed by a communication apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes calculating ( 400, 530 ) a generation interval and transmit power of a basic safety message used for Vehicle-to-Vehicle, V2V, safety communication, based on a channel busy ratio which is a ratio of time during which a channel is busy and on vehicle density within a predetermined range, and transmitting ( 500 ), based on the generation interval and the transmit power, the basic safety message over a PC5 reference point specified in a technical specification of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method performed by a communication apparatus of a vehicle, comprising:
calculating a k-th smoothed vehicle density from a k-th vehicle density within a predetermined range, a weight coefficient for smoothing, and a k−1-th smoothed vehicle density; calculating a generation interval of a basic safety message used for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) safety communication, based on the k-th smoothed vehicle density; and transmitting, based on the generation interval, a channel busy ratio, a priority of a packet and an occupancy limit of channel resources, the basic safety message to another communication apparatus of another vehicle over a PC5 reference point specified in a technical specification of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP (3GPP); wherein the generation interval is equal to an integral multiple of a subframe used for communication over the PC5 reference point.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the occupancy limit is determined based on the channel busy ratio.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the priority is a ProSe per-packet priority (PPPP).

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the generation interval is calculated using the vehicle density, a coefficient related to the vehicle density, and a maximum of the generation interval.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein
the coefficient related to the vehicle density is 25, and the generation interval ranges from 100 to 600 milliseconds.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising calculating the vehicle density based on one or more basic safety messages received from one or more vehicles.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the higher the vehicle density is, the longer the generation interval is.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the generation interval is 100 milliseconds when the vehicle density is 25 or less.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising adjusting transmission timings for time synchronization using time information obtained by reception of Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS, signals.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the communication apparatus is one of a vehicle-mounted apparatus mounted on the vehicle, a communication module that can be mounted on the vehicle-mounted apparatus, or the vehicle.

11 . A communication apparatus of a vehicle comprising:
a memory storing a program; and one or more processors configured to execute the program to:
calculate a k-th smoothed vehicle density from a k-th vehicle density within a predetermined range, a weight coefficient for smoothing, and k−1-th smoothed vehicle density;
calculate a generation interval of a basic safety message used for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) safety communication, based on the k-th smoothed vehicle density; and
transmit, based on the generation interval, a channel busy ratio, a priority of a packet and an occupancy limit of channel resources, the basic safety message to another communication apparatus of another vehicle over a PC5 reference point specified in a technical specification of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP);
wherein the generation interval is equal to an integral multiple of a subframe used for communication over the PC5 reference point.

12 . A non-transitory tangible computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute operations comprising:
calculating a k-th smoothed vehicle density from a k-th vehicle density within a predetermined range, a weight coefficient for smoothing, and a k−1-th smoothed vehicle density; calculating a generation interval of a basic safety message used for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) safety communication, based on the k-th smoothed vehicle density; and transmitting, based on the generation interval, a channel busy ratio, a priority of a packet and an occupancy limit of channel resources, the basic safety message to another communication apparatus of another vehicle over a PC5 reference point specified in a technical specification of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP); wherein the generation interval is equal to an integral multiple of a subframe used for communication over the PC5 reference point.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Kato Hiroko
• Suzuki Tadao

Classifications

• H04W52/343

  taking into account loading or congestion level · CPC title

• H04W52/383

  power control in peer-to-peer links · CPC title

• H04L43/0876

  Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level · CPC title

• H04W72/40

  Resource management for direct mode communication, e.g. D2D or sidelink · CPC title

• H04W72/569

  of the traffic information · CPC title