Device-to-device communication in cellular communication networks

摘要

The present subject matter relates device-to-device communication in cellular communication networks. In an implementation, a transmitter (104) ascertains whether channel resources for D2D communication in a scheduling interval are available, based on a resource availability sensing technique and a scheduling grant. Based on ascertaining, a number of channel resources available for transmission in the scheduling interval are determined. Further, a data packet may be constructed, based on the number of channel resources, wherein the data packet comprises a header indicative of the size of the data packet and a data transmission rate per channel resource. The data packet may be transmitted over one or more scheduling intervals, based on the number of channel resources and a size of data to be transmitted.