Methods and apparatus for device-to-device communications system

TD Novlan, BL Ng, YH Nam… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
A method includes configuring one or multiple pools of Device-to-Device (D2D)
communication resources by an eNodeB (eNB). The method also includes signaling of the …

Method and apparatus for supporting proximity discovery procedures

RV Pragada, S Ahmad, B Raghothaman… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus are described for supporting a two-stage device-to-device (D2D)
discovery using a D2D interworking function (IWF). A D2D IWF component may be …

Registration for device-to-device (D2D) communications

RV Pragada, S Ahmad, B Raghothaman… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
A dual-radio access technology (dual-RAT) wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may
transmit, over a cellular RAT, a registration message that includes a wireless local area …

Method and apparatus for managing device-to-device interference

H Wang, S Xu, T Peng, Q Lu - US Patent 8,824,326, 2014 - Google Patents
Various methods for managing device-to-device interference are provided. One example
method includes receiving an expected interference level for a resource block, where the …

Measurements and fast power adjustments in D2D communications

SJ Hakola, TK Koskela, G Charbit, VV Phan - US Patent 8,504,052, 2013 - Google Patents
At a clusterhead/first device there is received, from each of at least two other devices with
which the cluster head has a respective wireless link, a quality indicator for the respective …

Device to-device (D2D) cross link power control

T Deng, GS Sternberg, P Marinier, G Poitau… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
Abstract Device-to-device (D2D) cross link power control systems and methods may be
disclosed. For example, a device such as a UE or WTRU may determine whether it may …

Resource coordination for peer-to-peer groups through distributed negotiation

S Geirhofer, N Bhushan, R Palanki… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
Techniques for determining resources to use for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are
disclosed. In an aspect, a network entity may receive feedback information (eg, resource …

Interference coordination for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication and wide area network (WAN) communication

S Geirhofer, N Bhushan, R Palanki, JM Borran… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Techniques for supporting peer-to-peer (P2P) communica tion in a wide area network
(WAN) are disclosed. In an aspect, interference coordination between P2P devices engaged …

Cellular Control Sensing for Multicell Device-to-Device Interference Control

H Wang, T Chen, T Peng - US Patent App. 13/574,561, 2012 - Google Patents
A method, apparatus, computer readable medium is provided to perform resource
coordination among multiple cells to cancel near-far interference for device-to-device …

Signaling mixed resource allocations for D2D communications

SJ Hakola, TK Koskela, VV Phan - US Patent 8,744,458, 2014 - Google Patents
In an embodiment, for a case in which there is an active connection established between a
cellular network and a user equipment UE and the UE has simultaneously an active …