CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 4/90 (2018.02); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 52/0261 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08)] | 8 Claims |
1. A method performed by a relay user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication between a remote UE and the relay UE connected to a network via a base station, the method comprising:
receiving, from the remote UE, a discovery message including information about the remote UE and information for identifying a relay service to discover the relay UE, the information for identifying the relay service including a relay service code related to the relay service;
transmitting, to the remote UE, a discovery response message including the relay service code;
establishing, by the relay UE, a D2D link with the remote UE, based on the relay service code included in the discovery response message;
identifying whether the remote UE is non-responsive in the D2D link based on a timer; and
initiating, by the relay UE, a procedure to release the D2D link established for the relay service between the relay UE and the remote UE upon an expiry of the timer in case that the remote UE has been non-responsive,
wherein the relay UE is one relay UE among at least one relay UE having received the discovery message.
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