Patent ID: 9699767
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A user terminal supporting a D2D (Device-to-Device) communication, comprising: a receiver configured to receive system information blocks (SIBs) broadcasted from a base station, the SIBs including resource information for determining time and frequency resources used for the D2D communication, wherein some radio resources available for the D2D communication are secured as special radio resources to transfer the resource information broadcasted from the base station; the receiver further configured to receive configuration information from the base station, the configuration information indicating predetermined periodic radio resources which are the special radio resources, said predetermined periodic radio resources used for transferring the resource information and being restricted from use in D2D data transmission in the D2D communication; a controller configured to use the periodic radio resources to periodically broadcast the resource information to other user terminals, said other user terminals being out of coverage of the base station; and a transmitter configured to transmit D2D data while avoiding use of the periodic radio resources, wherein some radio resources available for the D2D communication are secured as special radio resources to transmit information required to be transmitted with high reliability and at low delay in the D2D communication.