Patent ID: 11864158
Assignee: ORANGE
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A base station for allocating transmission resources to at least one transmitter terminal of a set Ω of pairs of terminals of index n that are candidates for direct communication, referred to as D2D terminals, a channel between two D2D terminals in direct communication being referred to as a D2D channel, wherein the base station comprises:
a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing a lookup table of correspondence between different intervals of values of a utility metric and a list of indices ordered from a minimum index to a maximum index defining a ranking of resources available for reporting an indicator of the state of a D2D channel,
a receiver configured to receive indicators reported via transmission resources, the respective index of which is determined by the transmitter terminal of a D2D pair by comparison between its value of the utility metric vn(t) and the lookup table,
a processor configured to determine, from said D2D transmitter terminals, a first terminal (n*) whose resource for reporting the indicator has the minimum order index, and
a transmitter configured to authorize, via a control channel, the first terminal to transmit during the transmission interval.