IP Library Granted Patent US 11,968,667
Granted Patent B2
US 11,968,667 · App. 17/352,482 · Granted Apr 23, 2024

Sidelink resource multiplexing and indication methods and apparatuses thereof

Inventors: Jian Zhang (Beijing, CN); Pengyu Ji (Beijing, CN); Guorong Li (Beijing, CN); Lei Zhang (Beijing, CN); Xin Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04W72/20H04L1/1607H04L5/0048H04W72/0446
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Patent No.
US 11,968,667
App. No.
17/352,482
Granted
Apr 23, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of this disclosure provide sidelink resource multiplexing and indication methods and apparatuses thereof. The method includes: receiving by a second device length information indicating a length of a first part in a slot transmitted by a terminal equipment or a network device; and performing transmission and/or reception of sidelink information by the second device with a first device according to the length information. Hence, the second device is able to process the first part according to the length information, thereby improving performance of sidelink transmission.

Claims (29)

1. A sidelink resource multiplexing apparatus, comprising:

a memory that stores a plurality of instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to:

perform transmission and/or reception of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), and perform transmission and/or reception of physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and/or physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); and

multiplex PSFCH and PSCCH/PSSCH in a predefined time division multiplexing (TDM) manner, wherein the predefined time division multiplexing (TDM) manner comprises when PSFCH of a first terminal device and PSFCH of a second terminal device are in the same slot, PSFCH durations are the same.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a terminal device with ACK/NACK disabled acquires a PSFCH duration of a terminal device with ACK/NACK enabled, and performs transmission and/or reception of PSCCH/PSSCH according to the PSFCH duration.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to acquire length information indicating a length of a first part in a slot, and perform automatic gain control on the first part according to the length information.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the length information comprises at least one of the following: a length of a physical sidelink feedback channel, a slot length to which a numerology corresponds, or a length of a mini-slot.

5. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the length information is configured by at least one of the following: radio resource control signaling, system information, sidelink control information, or downlink control information.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein a cyclic redundancy check code of sidelink control information is scrambled by using a common identifier;

and the sidelink control information indicates at least one of the following: a length of a physical sidelink feedback channel, a slot at which a physical sidelink feedback channel is present, a symbol where a physical sidelink feedback channel is located, a resource block where a physical sidelink feedback channel is located, a slot at which a physical sidelink shared channel is present, a symbol where a physical sidelink shared channel is located, or a resource block where a physical sidelink shared channel is located.

7. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein one or more symbols preceding the first part in the slot carry/carries information used for the automatic gain control, and one or more symbols preceding the first part in the slot is/are taken as guard interval(s).

8. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the slot at least further comprises a second part, and one or more symbols preceding the second part in the slot carry/carries information used for the automatic gain control and/or is/are taken as guard interval(s).

9. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the first part in the slot is configured with a first demodulation reference signal, and another part in the slot is at least configured with a second demodulation reference signal.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the first demodulation reference signal and/or the second demodulation reference signal is/are configured or preconfigured or predefined as being related to a time-frequency resource or a group of time-frequency resources, the time-frequency resource(s) containing one or more slots in time domain, and containing one or more resource blocks in frequency domain.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the time-frequency resource(s) is/are configured by at least one of the following: radio resource control signaling, system information, sidelink control information, or downlink control information.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the time-frequency resource(s) comprise(s) at least one of the following: a reception resource pool, a transmission resource pool, a bandwidth part, a carrier, or a component carrier.

13. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a PSFCH duration and/or a PSFCH slot are/is configured or preconfigured or predefined as being related to a time-frequency resource or a group of time-frequency resources, the time-frequency resource(s) containing one or more slots in time domain, and containing one or more resource blocks in frequency domain.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the time-frequency resource(s) is/are configured by at least one of the following: radio resource control signaling, system information, sidelink control information, or downlink control information.

15. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the time-frequency resource(s) comprise(s) at least one of the following: a reception resource pool, a transmission resource pool, a bandwidth part, a carrier, or a component carrier.

16. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a PSFCH duration is predefined.

17. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in a case where at least two types of transmit power are needed in a slot, a maximum transmit power in the at least two types of transmit power is taken as the transmit power of the slot.

18. A sidelink resource multiplexing method, comprising:

performing, by a terminal device, transmission and/or reception of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), and performing transmission and/or reception of physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and/or physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); and

multiplexing PSFCH and PSCCH/PSSCH in a predefined time division multiplexing (TDM) manner, wherein the predefined time division multiplexing (TDM) manner comprises when PSFCH of a first terminal device and PSFCH of a second terminal device are in the same slot, PSFCH durations are the same.

19. A communication system, comprising:

a terminal device configured to:

perform transmission and/or reception of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), and perform transmission and/or reception of physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and/or physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); and

multiplex PSFCH and PSCCH/PSSCH in a predefined time division multiplexing (TDM) manner, wherein the predefined time division multiplexing (TDM) manner comprises when PSFCH of a first terminal device and PSFCH of a second terminal device are in the same slot, PSFCH durations are the same.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 13, 2025
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 072436/0269 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 21, 2021
From: ZHANG, JIAN; JI, PENGYU; LI, GUORONG; ZHANG, LEI; WANG, XIN
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 056598/0256 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019071196 · Jan 10, 2019
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