US 12,150,211 B2
Method and apparatus for platoon-based communications
Marco Belleschi, Solna (SE); Zhang Zhang, Beijing (CN); Congchi Zhang, Shanghai (CN); Liang Hu, San Diego, CA (US); and Shehzad Ali Ashraf, Aachen (DE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolagget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/424,276
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Jan. 22, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/073854
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/151751, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/2019/073047 (WO), filed on Jan. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0070972 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 84/20 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 84/20 (2013.01) [H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a first network node, the method comprising:
determining, at a radio layer, a group header of a device group which comprises at least a terminal device, the group header comprising at least one of:
an application layer group header being responsible for management of the device group at an application layer; and
a radio layer group header being responsible for management of the device group at the radio layer;
assigning a higher priority for communications with the group header of the device group than communications with other devices; and
the first network node being a radio access network node and the radio access node being a base station.