Patent ID: 9629180
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for transmitting scheduling information, the method comprising: determining, by a base station, user equipments (UEs) that are engaged in direct communication; determining scheduling information required for data transmission for the UEs that are engaged in the direct communication after determining the UEs that are engaged in the direct communication, the scheduling information comprising first control information and second control information for the UEs to perform direct data transmission, wherein the first control information is updated at a first frequency and the second control information is updated at a second frequency that is different than the first frequency, and wherein the first control information is different from the second control information; transmitting, by the base station, the first control information to each of the UEs that are engaged in the direct communication statically or semi-statically; and wherein the second control information is transmitted by a first UE in the UEs that are engaged in the direct communication dynamically or semi-dynamically to a second UE in the UEs that are engaged in the direct communication, the first UE configured to transmit data to the second UE in the direct communication.