US 12,144,009 B2
Control unit and method for assisting side-link communication
Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Munich (DE); Chan Zhou, Munich (DE); Henrik Olofsson, Kista (SE); Wenjie Peng, Shanghai (CN); Jun Wang, Shanghai (CN); and Haiyan Luo, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/486,560.
Application 17/486,560 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/057933, filed on Mar. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0015088 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/51 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/51 (2023.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A controller for assisting side-link communication for at least one slice of a communication network, wherein the controller is configured to:
obtain at least one of an upper layer requirement, and a session requirement;
configure, for the at least one slice, at least one side-link resource pool based on one of the upper layer requirement or session requirement;
provide notification information to a further network node about the side-link resource pool configuration, wherein the notification information comprises at least one of:
configuration update notification information for at least one session;
resource pool configuration parameters;
terminal device-related statistics for the terminal device utilizing side-link resources;
configuration update notification information for at least one slice coverage area; and
slice-related statistics for the slice utilizing side-link resources, and wherein the resource pool configuration parameters include at least one of:
session configuration parameters for configuring a terminal device associated to at least one slice; and
slice configuration parameters for configuring a geographical area.