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Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 23, 2015
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Xiaodong Xu, Beijing, CN;

Ce Wang, Beijing, CN;

Yunqiu Xiao, Beijing, CN;

Chengcheng Yang, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2013.01); H04W 72/042 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method for wireless communications, a base station, and a user equipment side apparatus in a communication system. The wireless communications apparatus includes: one or more scheduling units configured to, responsive to transmission demands of plural user equipments managed by the apparatus, judge, based on user equipment clusters to which the plural user equipments belongs, whether the plural user equipments can reuse same physical transmission resources or not, and schedule, based on a judgment result, corresponding physical transmission resources for the plural user equipments; and a signaling generating unit configured to generate, based on resource scheduling of one or more scheduling units, downlink control information containing resource scheduling information to apply same to the plural user equipments, the user equipments including D2D user equipment pairs and honeycomb user equipments, the plural user equipments being divided into at least one user equipment cluster in advance based on geographic positions.


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