Patent ID: 9591469
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for facilitating device to device (D2D) discovery, the method comprising: transmitting, by an evolved node B (eNB), a device to device (D2D) discovery configuration to one or more user equipments (UEs), the D2D discovery configuration associated with a set of periodically occurring time-domain periods, wherein the D2D discovery configuration includes a time division duplexing (TDD) configuration parameter that identifies a TDD uplink downlink (UL/DL) configuration used to determine a sub-frame pool for D2D discovery, a first indicator for identifying an initial D2D discovery subframe, and a second indicator indicating a D2D discovery period, and wherein discovery subframes in the sub-frame pool for D2D discovery are determined according to j=(O