Patent ID: 9648599
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for signaling first control information in a communications system, the method comprising: identifying, by a user equipment (UE), a first subframe to carry the first control information; determining, by the UE, whether the first subframe is configured as a device-to-device (D2D) subframe; transmitting, by the UE, the first control information in the first subframe to an evolved NodeB (eNB) when the first subframe is not configured as a D2D subframe, wherein the first control information is encoded with a first encoding rule in accordance with the first subframe; and transmitting, by the UE, the first control information in a second subframe when the first subframe is configured as a D2D subframe, wherein the first control information is encoded with a second encoding rule in accordance with the second subframe.