IP Library Granted Patent US 12,490,045
Granted Patent B2
US 12,490,045 · App. 16/549,453 · Granted Dec 2, 2025

Transmission with indication of geographic area

Inventors: Zhibin Wu (Sunnyvale, CA); Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Hillsborough, NJ); Kapil Gulati (Hillsborough, NJ); Arjun Bharadwaj (Poway, CA); Hong Cheng (Bridgewater, NJ); Shailesh Patil (San Diego, CA); Junyi Li (Chester, NJ)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W4/02H04L5/0055H04W4/12H04W4/40H04W28/0268H04W72/20
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Patent No.
US 12,490,045
App. No.
16/549,453
Granted
Dec 2, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An improved manner of transmitting and receiving messages in V2X/V2V/D2D is presented in which a transmitting device determines a geographic location of the mobile transmitting device and generates a message for a service group having a group ID associated with the service group, the message comprising a first indication of a geographic area associated with the message, the geographic area based at least in part on the geographic location of the transmitting device. Then, the apparatus transmits the message to the service group, e.g., via V2X/V2V/D2D communication. A receiving device then determines its geographic location and determines whether to send a feedback for the message based on the first indication of the geographic area associated with the message and the geographic location of the receiving device.

Claims (132)

1 . A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

determining a geographic location of the UE;

transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) for a sidelink transmission, the SCI comprising:

a zone identifier (ID) based at least in part on the geographic location of the UE, and

a range for feedback to the sidelink transmission, the range being based on a Quality of Service (QOS) parameter associated with the sidelink transmission; and

transmitting the sidelink transmission.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission based at least in part on the geographic location of the UE.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and further comprises group identifier (ID) information indicating an ID of a service group.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining the zone ID based on the geographic location of the UE.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the SCI includes a parameter associated with the range, the parameter indicating at least one zone from which the feedback is requested.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the SCI further includes an additional parameter that indicates a number of adjacent zones that are adjacent to the at least one zone and from which the feedback is requested.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the zone ID comprises reduced information for a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission is indicated based on a hierarchical layer of geographic areas and comprises a layer ID and an area ID corresponding to the layer ID.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the zone ID is based on a modulo operation performed on geographic area information based on the geographic location of the UE.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission is indicated by the zone ID and comprises a preconfigured geographic area.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the zone ID indicates a geographic area determined by the UE.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission is based on a radius surrounding the geographic location of the UE.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission corresponds to a non-circular geographic area.

14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission is based on the QOS parameter associated with the sidelink transmission.

15 . The method of claim 1 , the range comprising at least one zone surrounding a zone from which the feedback is requested based on the QoS parameter associated with the sidelink transmission.

16 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the zone ID, the range, and an indication of group identifier (ID) information are comprised in a control portion of the sidelink transmission.

17 . The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

hashing an identifier associated with a geographic area with a group ID to generate an information element (IE) comprised in the sidelink transmission; or

hashing the group ID to generate a first IE comprised in the sidelink transmission, wherein the identifier associated with the geographic area is comprised in a second IE that is comprised in the sidelink transmission.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein at least one of the first IE or the second IE is comprised in the SCI of the sidelink transmission.

19 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink transmission is transmitted via Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, or device-to-device communication.

20 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and the SCI further comprises group identifier (ID) information.

21 . The method of claim 20 , further comprising:

determining the zone ID based on the geographic location of the UE.

22 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the feedback is a negative acknowledgment (NACK) if the sidelink transmission is not correctly received.

23 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the feedback to the sidelink transmission is based on a negative acknowledgment (NACK) mode.

24 . The method of claim 23 , wherein the feedback is hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback.

25 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises data.

26 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH).

27 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the feedback is a Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) feedback.

28 . An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to cause the UE to:

determine a geographic location of the UE;

transmit sidelink control information (SCI) for a sidelink transmission, wherein the SCI comprises:

a zone identifier (ID) based at least in part on the geographic location of the UE, and

a range for feedback to the sidelink transmission, wherein the range is based on a Quality of Service (QOS) parameter associated with the sidelink transmission; and

transmit the sidelink transmission.

29 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to:

determine a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission based at least in part on the geographic location of the UE.

30 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and further comprises group identifier (ID) information that indicates an ID of a service group.

31 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to:

determine the zone ID based on the geographic location of the UE.

32 . The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the SCI includes a parameter associated with the range, and wherein the parameter indicates at least one zone from which the feedback is requested.

33 . The apparatus of claim 32 , wherein the SCI further includes an additional parameter that indicates a number of adjacent zones that are adjacent to the at least one zone from which the feedback is requested.

34 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the zone ID comprises reduced information for a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission.

35 . The apparatus of claim 34 , wherein the geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission is indicated based on a hierarchical layer of areas and comprises a layer ID and an area ID that corresponds to the layer ID.

36 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission comprises a preconfigured geographic area.

37 . The apparatus of claim 34 , wherein the geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission corresponds to a non-circular geographic area.

38 . The apparatus of claim 34 , wherein the geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission is based on the QoS parameter associated with the sidelink transmission.

39 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the zone ID is based on a modulo operation performed on geographic area information based on the geographic location of the UE.

40 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission indicates the geographic area determined by the UE.

41 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission is based on a radius that surrounds the geographic location of the UE.

42 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the range comprises at least one zone that surrounds a zone from which the feedback is requested based on the QoS parameter associated with the sidelink transmission.

43 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the zone ID and an indication of group identifier (ID) information are comprised in a control portion of the sidelink transmission.

44 . The apparatus of claim 43 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to:

hash an identifier for a geographic area associated with the sidelink transmission with a group ID to generate an information element (IE) comprised in the sidelink transmission; or

hash the group ID to generate a first IE comprised in the sidelink transmission, wherein the identifier for the geographic area is comprised in a second IE that is comprised in the sidelink transmission.

45 . The apparatus of claim 44 , wherein at least one of the first IE or the second IE is comprised in the SCI of the sidelink transmission.

46 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the sidelink transmission is transmitted via Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, or device-to-device communication.

47 . The apparatus of claim 28 , further comprising at least one antenna coupled to the one or more processors.

48 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the feedback is a negative acknowledgment (NACK) if the sidelink transmission is not correctly received.

49 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the feedback to the sidelink transmission is based on a negative acknowledgment (NACK) mode.

50 . The apparatus of claim 49 , wherein the feedback is hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback.

51 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the range is for the feedback from a second UE.

52 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises data.

53 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH).

54 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the feedback is a Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) feedback.

55 . The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein the one or more processors are configured individually or collectively to cause the UE to determine the geographic location of the UE, transmit the SCI, and transmit the sidelink transmission.

56 . An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

means for determining a geographic location of the UE;

means for transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) for a sidelink transmission, the SCI comprising:

a zone identifier (ID) based at least in part on the geographic location of the UE, and

a range for feedback to the sidelink transmission, the range being based on a Quality of Service (QOS) parameter associated with the sidelink transmission; and

means for transmitting the sidelink transmission.

57 . The apparatus of claim 56 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and the SCI further comprises group identifier (ID) information that indicates an ID for the groupcast message.

58 . The apparatus of claim 56 , wherein the SCI includes a parameter associated with the range, wherein the parameter indicates at least one zone from which the feedback is requested.

59 . The apparatus of claim 56 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and further comprises group identifier (ID) information that indicates an ID of a service group.

60 . The apparatus of claim 56 , further comprising:

means for determining the zone ID based on the geographic location of the UE.

61 . The apparatus of claim 56 , wherein the feedback to the sidelink transmission is based on a negative acknowledgment (NACK) mode.

62 . The apparatus of claim 56 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises data.

63 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer executable code for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), the code when executed by one or more processors cause the UE to:

determine a geographic location of the UE;

transmit sidelink control information (SCI) for a sidelink transmission, wherein the SCI comprises:

a zone identifier (ID) based at least in part on the geographic location of the UE, and

a range for feedback to the sidelink transmission, wherein the range is based on a Quality of Service (QOS) parameter associated with the sidelink transmission; and

transmit the sidelink transmission.

64 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 63 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises data.

65 . A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving sidelink control information (SCI) for a sidelink transmission, the SCI comprising:

a zone identifier (ID) based at least in part on a geographic location of a second UE, and

a range for feedback to the sidelink transmission, the range being based on a Quality of Service (QOS) parameter associated with the sidelink transmission; and

receiving the sidelink transmission based on the SCI.

66 . The method of claim 65 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and the SCI further comprises group identifier (ID) information indicating an ID for the groupcast message.

67 . The method of claim 65 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises data.

68 . The method of claim 65 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH).

69 . The method of claim 65 , wherein the feedback is a Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) feedback.

70 . An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to cause the UE to:

receive sidelink control information (SCI) for a sidelink transmission, wherein the SCI comprises:

a zone identifier (ID) based at least in part on a geographic location of a second UE, and

a range for feedback to the sidelink transmission, wherein the range is based on a Quality of Service (QOS) parameter associated with the sidelink transmission; and

receive the sidelink transmission based on the SCI.

71 . The apparatus of claim 70 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and the SCI further comprises group identifier (ID) information that indicates indicating an ID for the groupcast message.

72 . The apparatus of claim 70 , further comprising at least one antenna coupled to the one or more processors.

73 . The apparatus of claim 70 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises data.

74 . The apparatus of claim 70 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH).

75 . The apparatus of claim 70 , wherein the feedback is a Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) feedback.

76 . The apparatus of claim 70 , wherein the one or more processors are configured individually or collectively to cause the UE to receive the SCI and receive the sidelink transmission based on the SCI.

77 . An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

means for receiving sidelink control information (SCI) for a sidelink transmission, the SCI comprising:

a zone identifier (ID) based at least in part on a geographic location of a second UE, and

a range for feedback to the sidelink transmission, the range being based on a Quality of Service (QOS) parameter associated with the sidelink transmission; and

means for receiving the sidelink transmission based on the SCI.

78 . The apparatus of claim 77 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and the SCI further comprises group identifier (ID) information indicating an ID for the groupcast message.

79 . The apparatus of claim 77 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises data.

80 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer executable code for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), the code when executed by one or more processors cause the UE to:

receive sidelink control information (SCI) for a sidelink transmission, wherein the SCI comprises:

a zone identifier (ID) based at least in part on a geographic location of a second UE, and

a range for feedback to the sidelink transmission, wherein the range is based on a Quality of Service (QOS) parameter associated with the sidelink transmission; and

receive the sidelink transmission based on the SCI.

81 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 80 , wherein the sidelink transmission is a groupcast message and the SCI further comprises group identifier (ID) information that indicates an ID for the groupcast message.

82 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 80 , wherein the sidelink transmission comprises data.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 11, 2019
From: WU, ZHIBIN; BAGHEL, SUDHIR KUMAR; GULATI, KAPIL; BHARADWAJ, ARJUN; CHENG, HONG; PATIL, SHAILESH; LI, JUNYI
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
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