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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2020
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Juha Pekka Karjalainen, Oulu, FI;
Timo Koskela, Oulu, FI;
Sami-Jukka Hakola, Kempele, FI;
Jari Yrjana Hulkkonen, Oulu, FI;
Antti Arvola, Oulu, FI;
Satya Krishna Joshi, Oulu, FI;
Antti Tolli, Oulu, FI;
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
An example method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium are provided for enabling beam based discovery and direct connectivity using network assisted beam discovery and corresponding signaling to at least reduce sweep time and beam acquisition for D2D discovery operations. In an example implementation, the method may include determining, by a network device of a communication network, information including an indication of at least one of data, a control element, or a relative reference point for identifying a beam sweeping angular spread for device-to-device discovery operations for device-to-device communication. The example method may further include sending towards a set of network nodes the information for the device-to-device discovery in the communication network.