Patent ID: 9654961
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of performing device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: communicating, by a first user equipment, with an existing connected user equipment currently connected with the first user equipment through at least one channel among a plurality of channels while hopping on a plurality of the channels based on a first channel hopping period and a first channel hopping sequence; discovering, by the first user equipment, a second user equipment to newly connect with while hopping on the plurality of the channels based on a second channel hopping period and a second channel hopping sequence; and performing, by the first user equipment, synchronization with the discovered second user equipment, wherein the first channel hopping period is configured with identical time intervals for each of the plurality of the channels and wherein one time interval among the configured time intervals is set equal to the second channel hopping period.