Method and apparatus for controlling semi-persistent scheduling

1. A method of controlling Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) for a user device, the method comprising:

determining, by a base station, sidelink (SL) SPS radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) for the user device; and

transmitting, by the base station, a SL grant including downlink control information (DCI) to the user device with a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH),

wherein the DCI comprises a SL SPS index field and an activation/release indication field if the DCI with Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) is scrambled with the SL SPS RNTI,

wherein a start subframe for Sidelink Control (SC) period is determined based on an offset value and a subframe in which the SL grant is received,

wherein an index of a subframe for SC period is relative to System Frame Number (SFN) 0, and

wherein a value for the SL SPS RNTI is determined as one of values which is described in the table below:

Values (hexa-decimal)

RNTI

0001-FFF3

SL SPS RNTI.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

scrambling, by the base station, PDCCH by using the SL SPS RNTI for the user device,

wherein the DCI scrambled by the SL SPS RNTI enables the user device to operate an SL SPS associated with a direct communication between the user device and another user device.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

setting a value in a 3-bit in the SL SPS index field,

wherein a maximum quantity of SL SPS configurations for the user device is eight.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

setting a value in a 1-bit field in the activation/release indication field.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, by the base station, SL SPS configuration information for the user device;

determining a first SL SPS interval for a first one of a plurality of SL SPS configurations for the user device; and

determining a second SL SPS interval for a second one of the plurality of SL SPS configurations for the user device,

wherein the SL SPS configuration information further comprises the first SL SPS interval and the second SL SPS interval.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the first SL SPS interval and the second SL SPS interval have different intervals.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user device comprises one or more of: a vehicle having a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication capability, a vehicle having a vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication capability, a vehicle having a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication capability, or a vehicle having a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication capability.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting, by the base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising release information (implicitReleaseAfter) to the user device.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein SL grant is released when consecutive Medium Access Control Protocol Data Units (MAC PDUs) containing zero MAC Service Data Unit (SDU) is transmitted, and

wherein a number of the consecutive MAC PDUs is determined by the release information.