Patent ID: 9723457
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for controlling vehicle-to-vehicle communication, the method comprising: a vehicle-to-vehicle communication device managing a cluster comprising the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device and at least one further vehicle-to-vehicle communication device; the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device determining a cluster description specifying one or more characteristics of the cluster, wherein the cluster description comprises at least one of a position, a velocity, or a heading of the cluster; the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device sending the cluster description over a cellular network to a network node; the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device receiving a resource assignment over the cellular network from the network node, the resource assignment indicating a set of resources for vehicle-to-vehicle communication assigned to the cluster; the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device assigning resources from the set of resources to the vehicle-to-vehicle communication devices of the cluster; and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device indicating the assigned resources to the at least one further vehicle-to-vehicle communication device of the cluster.