NODE DISCOVERY ACCORDING TO ALLOCATED DISCOVERY PATTERNS

摘要

A technique, including controlling a radio transmitter or radio transceiver of a first node to transmit discovery signals at time periods defined by a first discovery pattern allocated to said first node from a set of discovery patterns each defining a respective combination of transmission time periods from a set of time periods; and controlling the radio transmitter or radio transceiver to use for said discovery signals one or more radio resources allocated to the transmission time periods of said first discovery pattern from radio resources shared by the set of discovery patterns, wherein any radio resource allocated to any transmission time period of any one of the discovery patterns is distinguished from any radio resource allocated to any other of the discovery patterns for the same transmission time period.