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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2014
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Yigang Cai, Naperville, IL (US);
Anil Rao, Redmond, WA (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for switching radio resource allocation for User Equipment (UE) enabled for a device-to-device (D2D) communication. One embodiment is a base station that switches resource allocation between Mode 1, Mode 2, and a transition mode. For the transition mode, one or more parameters have a value in a range between a value specified in Mode 1 and a value specified in Mode 2 for the parameter(s). The base station detects movement of the UE from in-coverage of the base station to edge-of-coverage, and initiates switching of the resource allocation for the UE from Mode 1 to the transition mode. The base station then detects movement of the UE from edge-of-coverage of the base station to out-of-coverage, and initiates switching of the radio resource allocation for the UE from the transition mode to Mode 2.