公开(公告)号：US09961704B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-01

申请号：US14892514

申请日：2014-06-09

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Xiaodong Xu ,  Chengcheng Yang ,  Danting Zhang ,  Zhongbin Qin

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W92/18

CPC classification number: H04W76/14 ,  H04W68/005 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W92/18

Abstract: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication method, and a base station, the wireless communication device being used for device-to-device communication and including: a reception device, used for receiving paging signaling sent when in communication with another wireless communication device and preset conditions are satisfied for device-to-device communication, the paging signaling being used to supplement paging between the wireless communication device and the other wireless-communication device; paging based upon the paging signaling is used to confirm establishment of device-to-device communication between the wireless communication device and the other wireless-communication device. The wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and base station at least can enhance efficiency of device-to-device paging and thus also enhance efficiency of device-to-device communication.

公开(公告)号：US10327227B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-18

申请号：US15310329

申请日：2015-06-09

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Xiaodong Xu ,  Chengcheng Yang ,  Weiyang Lin ,  Ce Wang ,  Nannan Chen

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: An electronic device on a user equipment side in a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method. The electronic device includes: a communication unit, configured to implement device-to-device (D2D) communication under a cellular communication protocol with multiple user equipments, to directly send data and/or control information to the multiple user equipments; and a configuration unit, configured to configure, for a first user equipment and a second user equipment in the multiple user equipments, resources and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for implementing D2D communication between the first user equipment and the second user equipment, wherein the second user equipment is a candidate that the first user equipment implements D2D communication with, and the communication unit send information indicating the resources and the MCS to the first user equipment and the second user equipment.

公开(公告)号：US09867186B2

公开(公告)日：2018-01-09

申请号：US14764770

申请日：2013-12-26

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Xiaodong Xu ,  Danting Zhang ,  Da Wang ,  Chengcheng Yang ,  Hiroaki Takano ,  Zhongbin Qin

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04W84/20

CPC classification number: H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/042 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W84/20

Abstract: A wireless communication method, a base station and a wireless communication device. The wireless communication method includes: in case that communication devices which are to perform communication are estimated to satisfy a condition for device-to-device direct communication, transmitting a control signaling from a base station to the communication devices, the control signaling allocating a carrier for the device-to-device direct communication; and performing the device-to-device direct communication between the communication devices using the allocated carrier, wherein the base station allocates the carrier for the device-to-device direct communication from conventional carrier, stand-alone new-type carrier and non-stand-alone new-type carrier, wherein the new-type carrier has a reduced number of control channels as compared with the conventional carrier.

公开(公告)号：US10973036B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-06

申请号：US16693380

申请日：2019-11-25

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Xiaodong Xu ,  Weiyang Lin ,  Chengcheng Yang ,  Nannan Chen ,  Xiaojia Song

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: An electronic device and a wireless communication method in a wireless communication system. The electronic device includes circuitry configured to: set configuration information for D2D communication measurement for a first UE served by the electronic device, wherein the configuration information contains reference signal information about a second UE of a candidate object with which the first UE conducts D2D communication; send the configuration information, to trigger communication link quality measurement between the first UE and the second UE; receive a measurement report from the first UE; determine whether to convert the communication between the first UE and a current communication object to a communication with the second UE based on the measurement report; and send conversion information when the conversion determination unit determines to convert the communication, to notify the first UE and the UE to conduct communication.

公开(公告)号：US10568110B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-18

申请号：US15560630

申请日：2015-10-23

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Xiaodong Xu ,  Ce Wang ,  Yunqiu Xiao ,  Chengcheng Yang

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: An apparatus and method for wireless communications, a base station, and a user equipment side apparatus in a communication system. The wireless communications apparatus includes: one or more scheduling units configured to, responsive to transmission demands of plural user equipments managed by the apparatus, judge, based on user equipment clusters to which the plural user equipments belongs, whether the plural user equipments can reuse same physical transmission resources or not, and schedule, based on a judgment result, corresponding physical transmission resources for the plural user equipments; and a signaling generating unit configured to generate, based on resource scheduling of one or more scheduling units, downlink control information containing resource scheduling information to apply same to the plural user equipments, the user equipments including D2D user equipment pairs and honeycomb user equipments, the plural user equipments being divided into at least one user equipment cluster in advance based on geographic positions.

公开(公告)号：US10517108B2

公开(公告)日：2019-12-24

申请号：US15303162

申请日：2015-05-04

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Xiaodong Xu ,  Weiyang Lin ,  Chengcheng Yang ,  Nannan Chen ,  Xiaojia Song

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: An electronic device and a wireless communication method in a wireless communication system. The electronic device includes circuitry configured to: set configuration information for D2D communication measurement for a first UE served by the electronic device, wherein the configuration information contains reference signal information about a second UE of a candidate object with which the first UE conducts D2D communication; send the configuration information, to trigger communication link quality measurement between the first UE and the second UE; receive a measurement report from the first UE; determine whether to convert the communication between the first UE and a current communication object to a communication with the second UE based on the measurement report; and send conversion information when the conversion determination unit determines to convert the communication, to notify the first UE and the UE to conduct communication.