Cellular vehicle-to-everything allocation collision detection

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

detecting control channel allocations from a plurality of transmitting UEs in each time period of a plurality of time periods;

determining a quantity of detected control channel allocations in each time period;

determining virtual control channels comprising linked future transmissions;

determining a quantity of virtual collisions based on the virtual control channels;

reporting, to at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, virtual collisions in each time period, based on the quantity of virtual collisions; and

reporting, to at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, control channel collisions in each time period, based on the quantity and location of detected control channels in each time period, the reporting the control channel collisions occurring via an additional ACK/NACK (acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment) channel when a unicast connection or connection oriented groupcast connection exists with the at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, and the reporting the control channel collisions comprises either multiplexing collision information with channel state information (CSI) bits or transmitting an additional CSI channel when the control channels are broadcast or detected via connectionless groupcast from the plurality of transmitting UEs.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising reporting overlaps and virtual overlaps in each time period, based on the quantity and the location of detected control channels in each time period.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a quantity of virtual collisions and virtual overlaps based on decoding the control channels and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) bits; and

reporting the virtual overlaps in each time period, based on the quantity of virtual overlaps and the location of detected control channels in each time period.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising reporting a quantity of collisions and virtual collisions, a quantity of overlaps and virtual overlaps, a same subframe occurrence, a number of overlapped subchannels, and/or an interference level using reporting bits multiplexed with an acknowledgement (ACK) bit or duplicate acknowledgement (ACK) channels.

5. A method of wireless communication for a sidelink transmitting user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving a report, from a reporting UE, the report comprising collision information and virtual collision information for a plurality of time periods, based on a quantity and a location of control channels detected by the reporting UE in each time period and virtual control channels comprising linked future transmissions, the report received via an additional ACK/NACK (acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment) channel when a unicast connection or connection oriented groupcast connection exists with the reporting UE, and the report is received as either collision information multiplexed with channel state information (CSI) bits or an additional CSI channel when the control channels are broadcast or detected via connectionless groupcast from the reporting UE; and

reselecting transmission resources based on the report.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising prioritizing resources for reselecting in the following order from lowest priority to highest priority: colliding resources, overlapping resources, and non-overlapping resources.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising prioritizing overlapping resources with a higher priority assigned to a smaller amount of overlap.

8. An apparatus for wireless communication by a sidelink user equipment (UE), comprising:

a collision detection module configured to communicate with a UE, an infrastructure element, and a network;

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured:

to detect control channels from a plurality of transmitting UEs in each time period of a plurality of time periods;

to determine a quantity of detected control channels in each time period;

to determine virtual control channels comprising linked future transmissions;

to determine a quantity of virtual collisions based on the virtual control channels;

to report, to at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, virtual collisions in each time period, based on the quantity of virtual collisions; and

to report, to at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, control channel collisions in each time period, based on the quantity and location of detected control channels in each time period, the reporting the control channel collisions occurring via an additional ACK/NACK (acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment) channel when a unicast connection or connection oriented groupcast connection exists with the at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, and the reporting the control channel collisions comprises either multiplexing collision information with channel state information (CSI) bits or transmitting an additional CSI channel when the control channels are broadcast or detected via connectionless groupcast from the plurality of transmitting UEs.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , in which the at least one processor is further configured to report overlaps in each time period, based on the quantity and the location of detected control channels in each time period.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , in which the at least one processor is further configured:

to determine a quantity of virtual collisions and virtual overlaps based on decoding the control channels; and

to report the virtual overlaps in each time period, based on the quantity of virtual overlaps and a location of detected control channels in each time period.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , in which the at least one processor is further configured to report a quantity of collisions, a number of overlaps, a same subframe occurrence, a number of overlapped subchannels, and/or an interference level.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , in which the at least one processor is further configured:

to receive a report, from a reporting UE, the report comprising collision information for a plurality of time periods, based on a number and a location of control channels detected by the reporting UE in each time period; and

to reselect transmission resources based on the report.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , in which the at least one processor is further configured to prioritize resources for reselecting in the following order from lowest priority to highest priority: colliding resources, overlapping resources, and non-overlapping resources.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , in which the at least one processor is further configured to prioritize overlapping resources with a higher priority assigned to a smaller amount of overlap.

15. An apparatus for wireless communication, by a sidelink user equipment (UE), comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured:

to detect control channel allocations from a plurality of transmitting UEs in each time period of a plurality of time periods;

to determine a quantity of detected control channel allocations in each time period;

to determine virtual control channels comprising linked future transmissions;

to determine a quantity of virtual collisions based on the virtual control channels;

to report, to at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, virtual collisions in each time period, based on the quantity of virtual collisions; and

to report, to at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, control channel collisions in each time period, based on the quantity and location of detected control channels in each time period, the reporting the control channel collisions occurring via an additional ACK/NACK (acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment) channel when a unicast connection or connection oriented groupcast connection exists with the at least one of the plurality of transmitting UEs, and the reporting the control channel collisions comprises either multiplexing collision information with channel state information (CSI) bits or transmitting an additional CSI channel when the control channels are broadcast or detected via connectionless groupcast from the plurality of transmitting UEs.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , in which the at least one processor is further configured:

to report overlaps and virtual overlaps in each time period, based on the quantity and the location of detected control channels in each time period.

17. The apparatus of claim 15 , in which the at least one processor is further configured:

to determine a quantity of virtual collisions and virtual overlaps, based on decoding the control channels and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) bits; and

to report the virtual overlaps in each time period, based on the quantity of virtual overlaps and the location of detected control channels in each time period.

18. The apparatus of claim 15 , in which the at least one processor is further configured to report a quantity of collisions and virtual collisions, a quantity of overlaps and virtual overlaps, a same subframe occurrence, a number of overlapped subchannels, and/or and interference level using reporting bits multiplexed with an acknowledgement (ACK) bit or duplicate acknowledgement (ACK) channels.