US 12,010,656 B2
User equipment and communication method
Shohei Yoshioka, Tokyo (JP); Satoshi Nagata, Tokyo (JP); Huan Wang, Beijing (CN); and Xiaolin Hou, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/428,153
Filed by NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 15, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/005716
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/166088, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0030553 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal comprising:
a receiving unit that receives an SCI format from another terminal of terminal-to-terminal direct communication;
a control unit that selects, as a candidate transmission resource, a resource other than a resource that is determined by the SCI format received from the another terminal, from a resource selection range, the candidate transmission resource being used for data transmission by the terminal-to-terminal direct communication; and
a transmitting unit that transmits an SCI format via a first resource of the selected transmission resource,
wherein the resource selection range is a range from a slot obtained by adding a first value to a reference slot via which a parameter is received from an upper layer, to a slot obtained by adding a second value to the reference slot, and
wherein in response to transmission of the resource being stopped, reselecting a resource replacing the stopped resource.