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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2015
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy, San Diego, CA (US);
Anand Rajurkar, Hyderabad, IN;
Prashanth Mohan, Hyderabad, IN;
Aravinth Rajendran, Hyderabad, IN;
Nithin Thilak Nallasivam, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Janga Reddy Alimineti, Hyderabad, IN;
KrishnaKumar Vasanthasenan, Hyderabad, IN;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for improving device-to-device (D2D) communication in an LTE-Direct communication system includes exchanging communication information between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE over an LTE-Direct connection with a first network resource of a first set of network resources allocated to the first and second UEs by a base station for the LTE-Direct connection. The method also includes determining, by the first UE, whether a first link quality of the LTE-Direct connection with the first network resource is below a link quality threshold. If so, the LTE-Direct connection is shifted to another network resource of the first set of network resources until an LTE-Direct connection is established that has a link quality that is equal to or greater than the link quality threshold.