公开(公告)号：US20180376408A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-27

申请号：US15773436

申请日：2016-04-04

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Jin RA ,  Chul-ho HAN ,  Seok-min OH ,  Young-chan WOO ,  Seol-hye WON ,  Jin-young LEE

IPC: H04W48/10 ,  H04W48/16

Abstract: Disclosed is a user equipment that supports device-to-device communication. A user equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a communication unit for broadcasting a discovery message for informing another user equipment of the user equipment itself, and receiving a discovery message broadcasted from another user equipment; and a control unit for, when at least one discovery message is received, extracting an ID of at least one other user equipment from the at least one received discovery message, selecting at least one ID out of the extracted ID on the basis of status information indicating an importance of the at least one other user equipment, and broadcasting a discovery message including the selected ID.