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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Kyungkyu Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Min Young Chung, Seoul, KR;
Daegyun Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Seunghoon Park, Seoul, KR;
Sueng Jae Bae, Suwon-si, KR;
Chiwoo Lim, Suwon-si, KR;
Bum-Gon Choi, Yongin-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A two-hop link transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes establishing a two-hop link and scheduling transmission on the two-hop link in a Device-To-Device (D2D) communication network. The two-hop link transmission method includes identifying neighbor terminals available for communication with the transmission terminal, selecting one of the neighboring terminals as a recipient terminal, determining a type of a link to be established with the selected neighboring terminal between a single-hop link and two-hop link types, selecting, when the two-hop link type is determined, a relay terminal among the neighboring terminals, establishing the two-hop link with the recipient terminal via the relay terminal, allocating a Multi-Hop Connection Identifier (MCID) for the two-hop link, and transmitting data to the recipient terminal through the two hop link.