IP Library Granted Patent US 11,659,521
Granted Patent B2
US 11,659,521 · App. 17/105,329 · Granted May 23, 2023

Long physical sidelink shared channel format for sidelink communication

Inventors: Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, NJ); Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA); Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, NJ); Jing Sun (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W72/02H04B7/0626H04L1/0003H04L1/1819H04L1/1854H04L5/0055H04W72/0406H04W72/0446
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Patent No.
US 11,659,521
App. No.
17/105,329
Granted
May 23, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Aspects presented herein may enable a sidelink device to report or to receive HARQ feedback for sidelink channels based on a long PSFCH format. In one aspect, an apparatus transmits, to a second UE, an indication to provide HARQ feedback for at least one sidelink channel. The apparatus transmits, to the second UE, the at least one sidelink channel. The apparatus receives, from the second UE, an ACK or a NACK for the at least one sidelink channel via a PSFCH, the PSFCH including a long PSFCH format and associated with a sidelink resource pool.

Claims (45)

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

transmitting, to a second UE, an indication to provide hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for at least one sidelink channel;

transmitting, to the second UE, at least one sidelink transmission via the at least one sidelink channel; and

receiving, from the second UE, an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative-ACK (HACK) for the at least one sidelink transmission via a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), wherein the PSFCH includes a long PSFCH format and is associated with a sidelink resource pool that further supports a short PSFCH format, wherein the long PSFCH format includes a length of at least three (3) symbols and the short PSFCH format includes a length of less than three (3) symbols, wherein the long PSFCH format is prioritized over the short PSFCH format when the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format and a PSFCH including the short PSFCH format are scheduled in a same slot in the sidelink resource pool.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the long PSFCH format includes a length of four symbols.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one sidelink channel is a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) or a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) or both.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the indication is transmitted via sidelink control information (SCI) in the PSCCH or the PSSCH.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format has a periodicity that is an integer multiple of the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format is scheduled in one or more slots that are not occupied by the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format in the sidelink resource pool.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format is scheduled in a same slot as the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format in the sidelink resource pool, the PSFCH with a longer periodicity is prioritized over the PSFCH with a shorter periodicity.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format is scheduled in a same slot as the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format in the sidelink resource pool, the PSFCH with configured repetition resources is prioritized over the PSFCH without configured repetition resources, wherein the configured repetition resources are in consecutive slots.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format is scheduled in at least one of specified subchannel or specified slot that is not used by the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is received in one resource block (RB) and at least three (3) symbols in the PSFCH.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is received in multiple resource blocks (RBs) and at least three (3) symbols for each RB in the PSFCH.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving at least one of a channel state information (CSI) report or a scheduling request (SR) in the PSFCH.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is received in the PSFCH including a long PSFCH format or in a PSFCH including a short PSFCH format, or the ACK or the NACK is received based on at least one of a priority, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), a quality of service (QoS), or a slot aggregation associated with the at least one sidelink channel.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is received after a time gap and based on a periodicity of the PSFCH.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is received in a last two symbols of the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is received in more than two symbols or all symbols of the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format when the second UE is configured to use a short PSFCH format.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is received in one (1) or two (2) symbols, the ACK or the NACK corresponding to a HARQ repetition.

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

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

transmit, to a second UE, an indication to provide hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for at least one sidelink channel;

transmit, to the second UE, at least one sidelink transmission via the at least one sidelink channel; and

receive, from the second UE, an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative-ACK (NACK) for the at least one sidelink transmission via a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), wherein the PSFCH includes a long PSFCH format and is associated with a sidelink resource pool that further supports a short PSFCH format, wherein the long PSFCH format includes a length of at least three (3) symbols and the short PSFCH format includes a length of less than three (3) symbols, wherein the long PSFCH format is prioritized over the short PSFCH format when the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format and a PSFCH including the short PSFCH format are scheduled in a same slot in the sidelink resource pool.

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

receiving, from a second UE, an indication to provide hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for at least one sidelink channel;

receiving, from the second UE, at least one sidelink transmission via the at least one sidelink channel; and

transmitting, to the second UE, an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative-ACK (NACK) for the at least one sidelink transmission via a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), wherein the PSFCH includes a long PSFCH format and is associated with a sidelink resource pool that further supports a short PSFCH format, wherein the long PSFCH format includes a length of at least three (3) symbols and the short PSFCH format includes a length of less than three (3) symbols, wherein the long PSFCH format is prioritized over the short PSFCH format when the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format and a PSFCH including the short PSFCH format are scheduled in a same slot in the sidelink resource pool.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the long PSFCH format includes a length of four (4) symbols.

21. The method of claim 19 , wherein the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format has a periodicity that is an integer multiple of the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format.

22. The method of claim 19 , wherein when the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format is scheduled in a same slot as the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format in the sidelink resource pool, the PSFCH with configured repetition resources is prioritized over the PSFCH without configured repetition resources, wherein the configured repetition resources are in consecutive slots.

23. The method of claim 19 , wherein the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format is scheduled in one or more slots that are not occupied by the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format in the sidelink resource pool.

24. The method of claim 19 , wherein when the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format is scheduled in a same slot as the PSFCH including the short PSFCH format in the sidelink resource pool, the PSFCH with a longer periodicity is prioritized over the PSFCH with a shorter periodicity.

25. The method of claim 19 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is transmitted in the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format or in a PSFCH including a short PSFCH format, or the ACK or the NACK is transmitted based on at least one of a priority, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), a quality of service (QoS), or a slot aggregation associated with the at least one sidelink channel.

26. The method of claim 19 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is transmitted after a time gap and based on a periodicity of the PSFCH.

27. The method of claim 19 , wherein the ACK or the NACK is transmitted in more than two symbols or all symbols of the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format when the first UE is configured to use a short PSFCH format.

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

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

receive, from a second UE, an indication to provide hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for at least one sidelink channel;

receive, from the second UE, at least one sidelink transmission via the at least one sidelink channel; and

transmit, to the second UE, an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative-ACK (NACK) for the at least one sidelink transmission via a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), wherein the PSFCH includes a long PSFCH format and is associated with a sidelink resource pool that further supports a short PSFCH format, wherein the long PSFCH format includes a length of at least three (3) symbols and the short PSFCH format includes a length of less than three (3) symbols, wherein the long PSFCH format is prioritized over the short PSFCH format when the PSFCH including the long PSFCH format and a PSFCH including the short PSFCH format are scheduled in a same slot in the sidelink resource pool.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 15, 2020
From: WANG, XIAOJIE; ZHANG, XIAOXIA; GUPTA, PIYUSH; SUN, JING
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 054658/0353 →
Continuity (1)
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