Invention Grant
- Patent Title: User equipment, a network node and methods therein for enabling Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a radio communications network
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Application No.: US14368594Application Date: 2014-04-30
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Publication No.: US10090976B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Gabor Fodor , Chrysostomos Koutsimanis , Govardhan Madhugiri , Per Skillermark
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Sage Patent Group
- International Application: PCT/SE2014/050542 WO 20140430
- International Announcement: WO2015/167383 WO 20151105
- Main IPC: H04W72/04
- IPC: H04W72/04 ; H04L5/00 ; H04W24/10 ; H04W76/14 ; H04W72/02 ; H04W72/08

Abstract:
A method performed by a first User Equipment, UE, for enabling Device-to-Device, D2D, communication with a second UE in a radio communications network is provided. The first UE is configured to perform the D2D communication on downlink cellular resources in the radio communications network. The first UE measures received signal strengths of Reference Signals, RS, on downlink cellular resources from one or more network nodes in the radio communications network. The first UE then determines a first subset of downlink cellular resources for which the measured received signal strength of RS is above or equal to a threshold value. Also, the network node transmits information indicating the determined first subset of downlink cellular resources to a network node serving the first UE in the radio communications network in order to enable the D2D communication.
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