Patent ID: 9723643
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a first base station in a radio network, for selecting a mode of operation for communication between a first wireless device and a second wireless device, the first wireless device being served by the first base station and the second wireless device being served by a second base station of the radio network, the method comprising: obtaining a first channel gain of a device-to-device (D2D) link between the first wireless device and the second wireless device; checking whether the obtained first channel gain is above a first threshold; selecting a mode of operation from among a conventional cellular mode of operation with no D2D communication, a D2D communication mode of operation with network coding (NWC), and a D2D communication mode of operation without NWC, wherein said selecting is based at least in part on said checking, such that selectively sending one or more configuration messages to the first wireless device or to the first wireless device and to the second base station, in accordance with the selected mode.