Patent 10477519 was granted and assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. on November, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and devices are provided for resource allocation. The method may include: receiving a resource allocation request sent by first UE, where the first UE is any UE within coverage of a base station; when the resource allocation request carries a transmission resource index obtained by the first UE through listening, allocating a transmission resource to the first UE according to the transmission resource index; and sending the allocated transmission resource to the first UE.