Patent ID: 11863969
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A communication apparatus comprising:
circuitry that
acquires, from a base station apparatus, information for operating as a master for controlling a sidelink communication between other apparatuses; and
performs a process for operating as the master on a basis of the information acquired,
wherein the circuitry acquires information for operating at any operation level among two or more operation levels as operation levels of the master, and
the operation levels of the master include at least a first level corresponding to collecting and sharing with the other apparatuses information for the sidelink communication, a second level corresponding to limiting operations of the sidelink communication of the other apparatuses, and a third level corresponding to controlling the operations of the sidelink communication of the other apparatuses.