Intra-group communication method and device, and resource configuration method, device and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020021950-A1
Application number	US-201816496906-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 13, 2018
Priority date	Mar 23, 2017
Publication date	Jan 16, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided are an intra-group communication method and apparatus, a resource configuration method, apparatus and system, and a storage medium. The intra-group communication method includes acquiring, by a group member in group, a platooning dedicated resource (PDR), where the PDR is used for intercommunication of all group members in the group; and performing, by the group member, the intercommunication after acquiring PDR configuration information related to the PDR.

First claim

1 . An intra-group communication method, comprising:
acquiring, by group members in a group, a platooning dedicated resource (PDR), wherein the PDR is used for intercommunication of all members in the group; and performing, by the group members, the intercommunication after acquiring PDR configuration information related to the PDR, wherein the all members comprise the group members.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
on condition that the group members are located within a coverage range of a network side device or a resource member in the group is located within the coverage range of the network side device, acquiring, by the group members, the PDR transmitted by the network side device and/or the resource member; or on condition that the resource member is located out of the coverage range of the network side device or the all members are located out of the coverage range of the network side device, acquiring, by the group members, the PDR transmitted by the resource member; wherein the resource member is one of the all members in the group which is configured to transmit to the network side device a configuration request for requesting the PDR and configure the PDR for the group members in the group.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the acquiring the PDR configuration information comprises:
on condition that the group members are located within the coverage range of the network side device or the resource member is located within the coverage range of the network side device, acquiring, by the group members, the PDR configuration information transmitted by the network side device and/or the resource member in the group; or on condition that the resource member is located out of the coverage range of the network side device or the all members are located out of the coverage range of the network side device, acquiring, by the group members, the PDR configuration information transmitted by the resource member; wherein the resource member is further configured to transmit to the network side device a configuration request for requesting the PDR configuration information and transmit the PDR configuration information to the other group members in the group.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the PDR configuration information comprises at least one of: a resource position of the PDR, a resource size of the PDR, a resource duration of the PDR or a resource starting time of the PDR.

5 . A resource configuration method of a network side device, comprising:
configuring, by the network side device, a platooning dedicated resource (PDR) for group members in a group, wherein the PDR is used for intercommunication of all members in the group; and transmitting, by the network side device, PDR configuration information related to the PDR to the group members.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein
the network side device actively configures the PDR for the group and transmits the PDR configuration information to the group; or the network side device receives a configuration request transmitted by a resource member in the group and configures, in response to the configuration request, the PDR for the group members and transmits the PDR configuration information to the group members; wherein the resource member is one of the all members in the group capable of transmitting the configuration request to the network side device and configuring the PDR for and transmitting the PDR configuration information to the group members in the group.

7 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
determining, by the network side device, whether the resource member is located within a coverage range of the network side device; and in response to determining that the resource member is located within the coverage range of the network side device, transmitting, by the network side device, the PDR and the PDR configuration information to the resource member.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
in response to determining that the resource member is located out of the coverage range of the network side device, cancelling, by the network side device, a transmission of the PDR and the PDR configuration information to the resource member; or in response to determining that the resource member is located out of the coverage range of the network side device, determining, by the network side device, whether a backup resource member preset in the group is located within the coverage range of the network side device; and in response to determining that the backup resource member is located within the coverage range of the network side device, transmitting, by the network side device, the PDR and the PDR configuration information to the backup resource member.

9 . (canceled)

10 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the network side device configures the PDR for the group members through updating, wherein a condition for triggering the updating comprises at least one of following manners:
the network side device detects that a position area where the group members are located is updated from a first area to a second area; the network side device detects that a quality value indicating a quality of the PDR of the group members is less than a preset quality threshold; or the network side device acquires group member information and environment information reported by the group members and determines that the group member information and the environment information satisfy a preset trigger condition.

11 - 12 . (canceled)

13 . An intra-group resource configuration method, comprising:
configuring, by a resource member in a group, a platooning dedicated resource (PDR) for group members in the group, wherein the PDR is used for intercommunication of all members in the group; and transmitting, by the resource member, PDR configuration information related to the PDR to the group members.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein before configuring, by the resource member, the PDR for the group members, the method further comprises:
determining, by the resource member, whether a group member in the group is located out of a coverage range of a network side device; and in response to determining that the group member in the group is located out of the coverage range of the network side device, configuring, by the resource member, the PDR for the group members, and transmitting by the resource member, the PDR configuration information to the other group members.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein on condition that the resource member determines that the resource member is located within the coverage range of the network side device, the method comprises:
transmitting, by the resource member, PDR request information to the network side device; receiving, by the resource member, the PDR and the PDR configuration information transmitted by the network side device according to the PDR request information; and configuring, by the resource member, the PDR transmitted by the network side device for the group members and transmitting the PDR configuration information transmitted by the network side device to the group members.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein on condition that the resource member determines that the resource member is located out of the coverage range of the network side device, the method comprises:
determining, by the resource member, whether a backup resource member in the group is located within the coverage range of the network side device; and in response to determining that the backup resource member is located within the coverage range of the network side device, instructing, by the reso

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Ma Zijiang
• Chen Lin
• Huang Ying

Classifications

• H04W4/08 Primary

  User group management · CPC title

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• H04W4/40

  for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] · CPC title

• H04W4/70

  Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title