Patent ID: 9699692
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for controlling vehicle-to-vehicle communication, the method comprising: connecting, by a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication device associated with a first vehicle and using a first radio technology and a first radio interface, the V2V communication device associated with the first vehicle to a node servicing a first cell of an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) region having a plurality of cells that are part of a cellular network; receiving, by the V2V communication device associated with the first vehicle, channel information from the cellular network, the channel information indicating a first resource which is allocated to the V2V communication device associated with the first vehicle for sending of V2V communication messages within the first cell; determining, by the V2V communication device, that the first vehicle has entered a second cell; applying the channel information to the second cell, wherein the second cell is another cell of the ITS region; and transmitting, by the V2V communication device associated with the first vehicle, and using the channel information and a second radio technology different from the first radio technology and a second radio interface different from the first radio interface, at least one V2V communication message to a V2V communication device associated with a second vehicle within the second cell.