Inter-device communication in wireless communication systems

CS Bontu, Y Song, Z Cai - US Patent 8,982,895, 2015 - Google Patents
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for inter-device commu nication in Wireless
communication systems are provided. A user equipment (UE) may communicate directly …

Apparatus and method for mode selection for device-to-device communications

CB Ribeiro, KF Doppler, TK Koskela, T Chen… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed
that comprises measuring a first link quality of a first link based at least in part on a first …

Enhanced node B, user equipment and methods for discontinuous reception in inter-ENB carrier aggregation

YH Heo, Y Zhang - US Patent 8,913,518, 2014 - Google Patents
Embodiments of user equipment (UE) and methods for enhanced discontinuous reception
(DRX) operations for inter eNB carrier aggregation (CA) in an LTE network are generally …

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 …

Methods and apparatus for determining available resources for D2D communications

RK Madan, S Tavildar, C Measson - US Patent 9,084,241, 2015 - Google Patents
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are
provided in which a first eNB may be operable to determine a set of resources to allocate for …

Methods and apparatus to determine distance between devices for device to device communication and proximity services

SW Edge - US Patent 9,648,651, 2017 - Google Patents
Various systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for communicating
from device to device are described. Device to Device (D2D) communication may bypass …

Apparatus and method for providing device-to-device communication-based service for isolated user equipment in mobile communication system

MY Chung, SH Park, DH Kim, DG Kim, HS Ryu… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
US9894591B2 - Apparatus and method for providing device-to-device communication-based
service for isolated user equipment in mobile communication system - Google Patents …

Network controlled device to device/machine to machine cluster operation

T Koskela, T Chen, S Hakola - US Patent 8,867,458, 2014 - Google Patents
Methods, apparatuses, and systems can permit network allo cation of uplink resources. In
one example, a method includes determining uplink resources to be granted to a cluster …

Method and apparatus for device-to-device network coordination

JLS Kneckt, KF Doppler, MPO Rinne - US Patent 8,509,105, 2013 - Google Patents
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises
broadcasting from a user equipment (UE) having means for device to device (D2D) …

Apparatus and method to enable device-to-device (D2D) communication in cellular networks

JK Fwu, A Khoryaev, M Shilov… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
An apparatus and method of allowing user equipment to transmit information directly with
other user equipment, using a device-to-device mode is disclosed herein. A device to-device …