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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Yigang Cai, Naperville, IL (US);
Anil Rao, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/212 (2006.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04W 92/10 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2013.01); H04W 76/023 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01); H04W 92/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment is a relay User Equipment (UE) enabled for UE-to-network relay. The relay UE determines relay capabilities for acting as a relay to re-transmit traffic between a remote UE and a network. The relay UE generates synchronization signals for synchronizing with other relay UEs in proximity for device-to-device (D2D) communication, and inserts an indication of the relay capabilities in the synchronization signals. The relay UE transmits the synchronization signals over-the-air to the other relay UEs.