IP Library Granted Patent US 12696299
Granted Patent B2
US 12696299 · App. 18/365,604 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Sidelink radio resources on shared spectrum

Inventors: Bing Hui (Herndon, VA); Hua Zhou (Vienna, VA); Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA)
Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
H04W72/40
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Patent No.
US 12696299
App. No.
18/365,604
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A first wireless device may communicate with a second wireless device using sidelink resources. For a sidelink transmission on a shared spectrum, a quantity of subchannels of a sidelink resource pool (RP) may be used for indicating a resource block (RB) interlace.

Claims (48)

1 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a first wireless device, at least one message comprising an interlace coefficient associating a quantity of resource block (RB) interlaces in a sidelink resource pool (RP) with a quantity of sub-channels;

selecting, based on the quantity of RB interlaces in the sidelink RP, one or more RBs from the sidelink RP for at least one sidelink transmission; and

transmitting, to at least one second wireless device, the at least one sidelink transmission based on the selected one or more RBs from the sidelink RP.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one message further indicates a first quantity of subchannels of the sidelink RP.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the selecting is further based on a second quantity of subchannels, wherein the second quantity is a subquantity of a first quantity of subchannels indicated by the at least one message.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one message comprises at least one of:

a radio resource control (RRC) message;

a medium access control control element (MAC CE);

downlink control information (DCI); or

sidelink control information (SCI).

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink RP is in a sidelink bandwidth part (BWP) on a shared spectrum configured for a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs).

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one sidelink transmission comprises at least one of:

a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH);

a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); or

a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH).

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one sidelink transmission comprises at least one of:

a unicast transmission;

a groupcast transmission; or

a broadcast transmission.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first wireless device is a coordinating wireless device performing an inter-wireless-device coordination with the at least one second wireless device.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink RP comprises at least one sidelink RB set.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein a sidelink RB set of the at least one sidelink RB set indicates a frequency band for a sidelink transmission based on a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one message comprises a radio resource control (RRC) message from a base station.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one message comprises a radio resource control (RRC) message from at least one third wireless device.

13 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a first wireless device, at least one radio resource control (RRC) message comprising one or more parameters indicating:

a first quantity of subchannels of a sidelink resource pool (RP); and

a quantity of resource block (RB) interlaces of the sidelink RP, wherein the quantity of RB interlaces is based on the first quantity of subchannels multiplied by an integer number;

selecting at least one RB of the sidelink RP for at least one sidelink transmission via a second quantity of subchannels, wherein the selecting is based on:

the quantity of RB interlaces in the sidelink RP; and

the second quantity being a subquantity of the first quantity of subchannels; and

transmitting, to at least one second wireless device, the at least one sidelink transmission comprising the selected at least one RB.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the quantity of RB interlaces is associated with the first quantity of subchannels.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the selecting further comprises selecting the at least one RB based on a second quantity of subchannels of the at least one sidelink transmission in the sidelink RP.

16 . A method comprising:

receiving, by at least one first wireless device, at least one message comprising an interlace coefficient for an association between a first quantity of subchannels of a sidelink resource pool (RP) and a quantity of resource block (RB) interlaces of the sidelink RP;

selecting at least one RB for at least one sidelink transmission via the sidelink RP, wherein the selecting is based on:

the at least one message; and

a second quantity of subchannels, wherein the second quantity is a subquantity of the first quantity of subchannels; and

transmitting, to at least one second wireless device, the at least one sidelink transmission comprising the at least one selected RB.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the at least one message comprises at least one of:

a radio resource control (RRC) message;

a medium access control control element (MAC CE);

downlink control information (DCI); or

sidelink control information (SCI).

18 . The method of claim 16 , wherein an RB interlace of the quantity of RB interlaces indicates a set of RBs, equally spaced in a frequency domain, and wherein two adjacent RBs, of the set of RBs in the frequency domain, are separated by a difference of the quantity of RB interlaces and one.

19 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the at least one message further comprises a field indicating the first quantity of subchannels of the sidelink RP.