Patent ID: 9386566
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling a user equipment, the method comprising; establishing a first radio link with a serving network node and a second device-to-device (D2D) radio link directly with another user equipment (UE); in response to having D2D data to send to the other UE over the D2D radio link, sending to the serving network node on the first link a request for radio resources for a layer 1 (L1) control channel for the user equipment to use to perform scheduling of L1 control signaling; and in response to an assignment of D2D resources by the serving network node in reply to the request, sending on the same assigned D2D resources, to the other UE, the D2D data and the L1 control channel signaling.