US 12,317,099 B2
Facilitating network assisted overhead reduction in D2D discovery procedure
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); and Antti Tolli, Oulu (FI)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/779,638
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Sep. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/076932
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 25, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/104714, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 3, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/940,495, filed on Nov. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0012726 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 16/28 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving from a network device, with a network node of a communication network, information comprising an indication of at least one of data, a control element, or a relative reference point, the indication of the at least one of data, the control element, or the relative reference point being used for identifying a beam sweeping angular spread for device-to-device discovery operations for device-to-device communication;
based on the information, performing spatial domain configured discovery signalling for the device-to-device discovery operations; and
based on the information, determining a capability associated with spatial filter sweeping granularity for one of transmission or reception spatial filter(s) for the transmitting or the reception of the spatial domain configured discovery signals.