METHOD FOR SUPPORTING VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION IN A TDD-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TDD-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method for supporting vehicular communication in a TDD-based communication system, comprising at least one base station (103) and a plurality of vehicles (202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207) being equipped with mobile communication devices, wherein the radio resources of the communication system are divided in time into consecutive frames, the frames being partitioned in to uplink subframes for transmissions from a base station to the mobile communication devices and into downlink subframes for transmissions from the mobile communication devices to a base station (103), is characterized in that the frames further include peer-to-peer subframes being assigned to mobile communication de vices for direct communication between mobile communication devices, wherein a base station (103) divides its coverage into segments (200) in such a way that simultaneous transmissions within the same peer-to-peer subframe being performed in different segments (200) do not interfere with each other. Furthermore, a TDD-based communication system with vehicular communication support is disclosed.