COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD

摘要

A communications device includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one or more other communications devices via a wireless access interface, the one or more communications devices configured to perform device-to-device communications. A receiver is configured to receive signals from the one of the other communications devices via the wireless access interface, and a controller controls the transmitter and receiver to transmit or to receive the signals via the wireless access interface to transmit or to receive data represented by the signals. The wireless access interface provides a scheduling region including plural predetermined sections of communications resources, and plural sections of shared communications resources. Transmission of a scheduling assignment message in a section of the scheduling region informs other devices of a group that a communications device will transmit signals representing data in a corresponding section of the shared communications channel.

主权项

1. A communications device comprising
a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one or more other communications devices via a wireless access interface to perform device-to-device communications, a receiver configured to receive signals from the one or more other communications devices via the wireless access interface, and a controller for controlling the transmitter and the receiver to transmit or to receive the signals via the wireless access interface to transmit or to receive data represented by the signals, the wireless access interface providing a scheduling region comprising a plurality of predetermined sections of communications resources, and a plurality of predetermined sections of shared communications resources, wherein each of the plurality of predetermined sections of the scheduling region correspond to one of the plurality of sections of the shared communications resources, so that transmitting in one or more of the plurality of the sections of the scheduling region reserves one or more corresponding sections of the shared communications resources for transmitting the signals representing the data.