Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Hui Liang

Qimei Cui

Qinyan Jiang

Chen Sun

Xin Guo

Yanzhao Hou

Shiwei Cao

Shiyu Zhang

Tong Zhang

Zhongbin Qin

Weijuan Gao

Jinhui Chen

Mingliang Tao

Yuxin Wei

The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device according to one embodiment comprises one or more processors, wherein the processor(s) is/are configured to acquire the type of information to be transmitted via device-to-device communication, wherein the type is one of a plurality of types at least including a first type and a second type; and the processor(s) is/are also configured to determine a resource use manner and a power control manner which are used for transmitting information at least according to the type of the information.

Wireless communication device and wireless communication method

A device and method for vehicle-to-vehicle communication. The method includes: a source device sends a request message to a base station, the request message being used for requesting the base station to allocating a resource; a node device that is synchronous with the source device sends synchronous information to at least one target device, so that the at least one target device establishes time synchronization with the source device according to the synchronous information, wherein the node device is a road-side device or an in-car device capable of communicating; the source device informs the at least one target device of a resource allocated by the base station; and the source device sends service information to the at least one target device by utilizing the resource.

Method and device for vehicle-to-vehicle communication

A communications apparatus, a base station, and a communications method. The communications apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: group users in a 3D beam-forming space of a current cell into multiple space user groups; determine group configuration information of the users in the 3D beam-forming space of the current cell; notify a neighbor cell of the group configuration information of the users in the 3D beam-forming space of the current cell to assist inter-cell interference coordination, wherein the current cell is configured with an antenna array having multiple physical antennas to achieve 3D beam-forming.

Communications device, base station, and communications method

Disclosed are a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device according to one embodiment comprises one or more processors. The processors are configured so as to: on the basis of auxiliary dissemination limitation information about a source device as an information dissemination source, acquire device information about candidate devices capable of establishing direct communication with the source device; on the basis of the locations of the source device and the candidate devices, select a target device for establishing direct communication with the source device from the candidate devices; and determine a transmission resource for direct communication with the target device and generate a transmission resource scheduling indication.

A wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. A wireless communication device for use in a user equipment side includes one or more processors. The processor is configured to: obtain information about movement of the wireless communication device relative to a serving base station thereof; adjust a triggering condition for sending a measurement report for use in cell handover based on the information; and control sending of the measurement report according to the adjusted triggering condition.

A wireless communication equipment and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication equipment used for a user equipment side includes one or more processors. The processors are configured to determine indication information about a type of another user equipment carried in a synchronizing signal from the user equipment, the type including a first type and a second type. The processors are also configured to determine, based on the indication information, corresponding device-to-device communication operation of a user equipment aiming at another user equipment.

Wireless communication equipment and wireless communication method

A base station side and user equipment side device and method in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication system. The base station side device includes a processor configured to: respond to a random access request of the user equipment and determine that an access process initiated by the user equipment is a contention-based or a non-contention-based access process; and with respect to the contention-based access process, to prepare auxiliary access information for potential user equipment that has failed to access so that the user equipment that has failed to access and the base station can complete the access process based on interaction of auxiliary access information.

Wireless communication system, and base station side and user equipment side device and method

A device and method in a wireless communication system, the device including an access determination unit configured to determine an access requirement of a user equipment (UE); and a control unit configured to switch a target small cell of the device from a closed state to an open state based on the access requirement of the UE, and reallocate to the target small cell a new physical cell identifier different from the physical cell identifier used in the closed state. A physical cell identifier can be dynamically allocated in accordance with the open/closed state of the small cell, reducing the burden of cell planning and maintenance cost, and having greater flexibility.

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