Transceiver for conditionally participating in at least one communication service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022167347-A1
Application number	US-202217671358-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 14, 2022
Priority date	Aug 14, 2019
Publication date	May 26, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention concerns a transceiver being configured to participate in at least one communication service provided by a wireless communication network, the transceiver having a communication interface for receiving and/or transmitting communication data pertaining to the at least one communication service. The transceiver is configured to transmit and/or receive the communication data pertaining to the at least one communication service only if at least one of the following predetermined criteria is met: a) the current location of the transceiver is determined to be inside a designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service, b) the transceiver receives an intimation signal from a second being different to the at least one communication service, c) the transceiver received communication data pertaining to the at least one communication.

First claim

1 . A transceiver being configured to participate in at least one communication service provided by a wireless communication network, the transceiver comprising
a communication interface for receiving and/or transmitting communication data pertaining to the at least one communication service, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit and/or receive the communication data pertaining to the at least one communication service if at least one of the following predetermined criteria is met:
a. a current location of the transceiver is determined to be inside a designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service, and/or
b. the transceiver receives an intimation signal from a second service being different to the at least one communication service, and/or
c. the transceiver receives communication data pertaining to the at least one communication service.

2 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the received communication data pertaining to the at least one communication service is received by at least one of
within a time window and/or
within a frequency range, e.g. within a bandwidth part or resource pool, and/or
in more than one instance of transmissions, and/or
within a pre-defined message type.

3 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the transceiver comprises a sidelink communication interface, for example a PC5-interface, and wherein the at least one communication service comprises a communication between the transceiver and at least one or more further transceivers being related to the at least one communication service via its sidelink communication interface.

4 . The transceiver of claim 3 ,
wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a resource configuration comprising configuration information for configuring the sidelink communication interface.

5 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the second service comprises a communication with one or more base stations, and/or with one or more further transceivers being related to the second service, e.g. via a further PC5-interface.

6 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the intimation signal from the second service is in the form of at least one of
an explicit signal, e.g. explicit trigger or a broadcast signal via MIB/SIB or a groupcast signal, received by the transceiver, and/or
a resource allocation information within configured resources received by the transceiver.

7 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the transceiver is configured to sense for the presence of communication data being related to the at least one communication service and to determine whether the transceiver is inside the designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service if such communication data was successfully detected.

8 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the transceiver is configured to actively request a resource configuration and/or one or more resources for the at least one communication service from a base station: if the current location of the transceiver is determined to be inside the designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service, and/or if the transceiver successfully received communication data being related to the at least one communication service.

9 . The transceiver of claim 8 ,
wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a configuration message from a base station and/or from the network, the configuration message comprising the requested resource configuration and/or the one or more requested resources for the at least one communication service,
wherein the transceiver is configured to receive the configuration message when the transceiver is inside the designated geographical area, and to make use of the resource configuration and/or the one more resources for the at least one communication service, when the transceiver is inside the designated geographical area, or
wherein the transceiver is configured to receive the configuration message before the transceiver enters the designated geographical area, and to refrain from using the resource configuration and/or the one or more resources for the at least one communication service before the transceiver is inside the designated geographical area.

10 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the transceiver is configured to send a resource configuration request message to a base station for requesting a resource configuration being related to the at least one communication service, when the transceiver is located inside the designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service, and wherein the transceiver is configured to send said resource configuration request message to the base station via a Relay Unit relaying said resource configuration request message to the base station.

11 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the transceiver is configured to send a resource request message to a base station for requesting one or more resources for the at least one communication service from said base station, when the transceiver is located inside the designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service, and when the transceiver previously received a resource configuration related to the at least one communication service, wherein the transceiver is configured to send said resource request message to the base station via a Relay Unit relaying said resource request message to the base station.

12 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a configuration message, for example a Radio Resource Control—RRC—message, from a base station, when the transceiver is inside the designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service, and/or to receive the configuration message before the transceiver enters the designated geographical area being related to the at least one communication service, and wherein the transceiver is configured to configure its communication interface for a communication related to the at least one communication service in response to said configuration message.

13 . The transceiver of claim 12 ,
wherein said configuration message comprises one or more periodic resources, for example one or more periodically repeating configured grants—CG and wherein the transceiver is configured to use the one or more periodic resources for periodically transmitting communication data being related to the at least one communication service, for example one or more beacons.

14 . The transceiver of claim 13 ,
wherein the one or more periodic resources are exclusively reserved for the periodic transmission of the communication data being related to the at least one communication service.

15 . The transceiver of claim 13 ,
wherein at least one of the one or more periodic resources comprised in said configuration message comprises an identifier, for example a CG configuration ID, identifying said particular periodic resource as being a resource for a periodic transmission of the communication data being related to the at least one communication service, for example for a transmission of a beacon, and wherein the transceiver is configured to recognize, based on the identifier, said particular periodic resource and to use said particular periodic resource for a periodic transmission of the communication data being related to the at least one communication service.

16 . The transceiver of claim 1 ,
wherein the transceiver is configured to periodically sense a predetermined frequen

Assignees

• Fraunhofer Ges Forschung

Inventors

• Fehrenbach Thomas
• Hellge Cornelius
• Wirth Thomas
• Schierl Thomas
• Selvanesan Sarun
• Goektepe Baris

Classifications

• H04W72/51 Primary

  based on terminal or device properties · CPC title

• H04W4/021

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• H04W4/50 Primary

  Service provisioning or reconfiguring · CPC title

• H04W4/46 Primary

  for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V] · CPC title

• H04W4/44

  for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] · CPC title