Patent ID: 9288773
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: determining a path loss ratio based on a path loss to a serving base station from a mobile device and a path loss to at least one neighboring base station from the mobile device; determining at least one of a peer-to-peer transmit power or a peer-to-peer duty cycle to which to adjust based on the path loss ratio; adjusting the at least one of the peer-to-peer transmit power or the peer-to-peer duty cycle based on at least one of the path loss to the serving base station or the path loss to the at least one neighboring base station, wherein the adjusting includes adjusting the peer-to-peer duty cycle; and sending a peer discovery signal with at least one of the adjusted peer-to-peer transmit power or the adjusted peer-to-peer duty cycle, wherein the peer discovery signal includes the adjusted peer-to-peer duty cycle and wherein the peer-to-peer transmit power is a peer discovery transmit power for transmitting the peer discovery signal.