Method and apparatus for device-to-device communicating in wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9319955-B2
Application number	US-201214346021-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2012
Priority date	Sep 21, 2011
Publication date	Apr 19, 2016
Grant date	Apr 19, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, disclosed are a method and an apparatus for device-to-device (D2D) communicating. The method for D2D communicating in the wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: a first terminal communicating with a second terminal from a first cell through a D2D link; the first terminal obtaining handover-related information of a second cell; and transferring the handover-related information of the second cell that is obtained to the second terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for performing a D2D (device-to-device) communication in a wireless communication system, comprising:
performing a communication by a first user equipment with a second user equipment via a D2D link in a first cell;
obtaining, by the first user equipment, handover-related information on a second cell; and
delivering the obtained handover-related information on the second cell to the second user equipment.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein cell-specific D2D communication-related information on the first and the second cell is exchanged between the first and the second cell.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein cell-specific D2D communication-related information on the first and the second cell is delivered to the first and the second user equipment.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the cell-specific D2D communication-related information comprises at least one of a resource configuration for the D2D communication, a transmit power configuration, information on whether the D2D communication is permitted, or information on whether charging-related information for the D2D communication is reported.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein a resource for the D2D communication is semi-statically configured and wherein activation and release for the D2D communication is dynamically configured.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining is performed when the first user equipment moves to the second cell.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the obtaining is performed when the second user equipment moves to the second cell.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the handover-related information on the second cell is obtained via a procedure of handover to the second cell by the first user equipment.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the handover is performed when the first user equipment does not move to the second cell.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the handover-related information on the second cell is used for a procedure of attach to the second cell by the second user equipment.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein measurement information on each of the first and the second cell measured by the second user equipment is feedback via the first user equipment.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first user equipment corresponds to a master user equipment and wherein the second user equipment corresponds to a slave user equipment.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first and the second user equipment operate as a slave user equipment and a master user equipment, respectively, in the first cell, and
wherein the first and the second user equipment operate as the master user equipment and the slave user equipment, respectively, in the second cell.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the handover-related information on the second cell comprises at least one of a cell identifier of the second cell or resource configuration information of the second cell.

15. A first user equipment device performing a D2D (device-to-device) communication in a wireless communication system, comprising:
a reception module configured to receive a signal from an external;
a transmission module configured to transmit the signal to the external; and
a processor configured to control the first user equipment device containing the reception module and the transmission module,
the processor is further configured to:
perform a communication by the first user equipment device with a second user equipment device via a D2D link in a first cell;
obtain handover-related information on a second cell; and
deliver the obtained handover-related information on the second cell to the second user equipment using the transmission module.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Hakseong
• Seo Hanbyul

Classifications

• H04W24/02

  Arrangements for optimising operational condition · CPC title

• H04W76/043

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/0066

  of control information between different types of networks in order to establish a new radio link in the target network · CPC title

• H04W36/0016 Primary

  Hand-off preparation specially adapted for end-to-end data sessions · CPC title

• H04W36/22 Primary

  for handling the traffic · CPC title