Patent ID: 11910407
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A network node for allocating a resource pool for use by a wireless device in device to device communications, the resource pool being one of a plurality of resource pools, each resource pool comprising one or more time and frequency resource, the network node comprising processing circuitry configured to:
obtain one or more properties associated with one of a unicast, multicast and broadcast connection, the obtained one or more properties being received from the wireless device in a request for configuration of the one of the unicast, multicast and broadcast connection, the request message indicating a preferred casting type, a casting type being one of unicast, multicast and broadcast;
determine whether the requested configuration can be established; and
allocate a resource pool per wireless device for the requested configuration based on the one or more properties and for the preferred casting type.