公开(公告)号：US09320037B2

公开(公告)日：2016-04-19

申请号：US14087456

申请日：2013-11-22

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Sang-Min Lee ,  Young-Ho Jung ,  Myeon-Kyun Cho

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/10 ,  H04W74/08

CPC classification number: H04W72/0446 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/10 ,  H04W74/0866

Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A frame used by the terminal in P2P communications includes a plurality of P2P contention channels overlapping with a region for cellular communications and at least one P2P dedicated channel allocated by a base station only for the P2P communications. The method includes establishing a P2P connection with a correspondent terminal through the at least one P2P dedicated channel, and exchanging P2P communication data with the correspondent terminal through at least one of the plurality of P2P contention channels.