Patent ID: 9706386
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of performing a device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: discovering, by a first user equipment, a second user equipment in a first time interval within a discovery period, wherein the first time interval includes a channel hopping period with a first channel hopping sequence; and performing, by the first user equipment, channel hopping in a second time interval within the discovery period for performing the D2D communication with the second user equipment based on a second channel hopping sequence consisting of a channel hopping sequence and a repetition number indicating a number of repetitions of the channel hopping sequence, wherein the length of the discovery period of the first user equipment is dependent upon the channel hopping sequence and the repetition number of the second channel hopping sequence.