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US 12,250,580 · App. 17/490,901 · Granted Mar 11, 2025

Method for radio link monitoring, terminal, base station, and storage medium

Inventors: Zichao Ji (Chang'an Dongguan, CN); Xueming Pan (Chang'an Dongguan, CN); Huaming Wu (Chang'an Dongguan, CN)
Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
H04W24/10H04L1/1819H04L5/0053H04W76/19H04W76/28H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,250,580
App. No.
17/490,901
Granted
Mar 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for radio link monitoring, a terminal, a base station, and a storage medium are provided. The method for radio link monitoring includes: in sidelink communication, performing a radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement on a radio link between terminals to monitor radio link quality between the terminals. With the embodiments of this application, the radio link quality in the sidelink communication can be monitored.

Claims (57)

1. A method for radio link monitoring, applied to a first terminal, wherein the method comprises:

in sidelink communication, performing a radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement on a radio link between terminals to monitor radio link quality between the terminals;

wherein the performing the RLM measurement on the radio link between the terminals to monitor the radio link quality between the terminals comprises:

performing the RLM measurement according to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback from a second terminal;

reporting a radio link failure (RLF) to upper layer when a quantity of discontinuous transmissions (DTX) reaches a configured number L.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: performing the RLM measurement on a basis of an RS of the second terminal.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the second terminal transmits an RS on a predetermined time-frequency resource, wherein

the predetermined time-frequency resource is a semi-persistent resource or periodic resource that is reserved for a terminal; or,

the predetermined time-frequency resource is an aperiodic resource or semi-persistent resource that is reserved for a terminal; or,

the predetermined time-frequency resource is a resource associated with a sidelink synchronization block; or,

the predetermined time-frequency resource is a resource associated or multiplexed with a specified channel.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein a sequence of the RS of the second terminal is generated based on identification information of the second terminal.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein

resources reserved for terminals are time domain resources different from one another; or,

time domain resources of the terminals are time division multiplexed.

6. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises:

reporting a first reporting indication in a case that a count that an RLM measurement result is greater than a third threshold reaches a third preset count; or,

reporting a second reporting indication in a case that a count that an RLM measurement result is less than a fourth threshold reaches a fourth preset count.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the RLM measurement is performed based on a quantity of HARQ feedbacks transmitted by the second terminal.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the method further comprises:

reporting a second reporting indication in a case that a count that the quantity of DTXs reaches a sixth preset count.

9. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises:

reporting the RLM measurement result to an upper layer, wherein the RLM measurement result comprises:

a first reporting indication for indicating a good radio link quality; and/or,

a second reporting indication for indicating a poor radio link quality.

10. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises:

reporting a link failure message to an upper layer or triggering a link failure in a case that link quality becomes poor; or,

reporting a link recovery message to an upper layer or triggering a link recovery if link quality becomes better.

11. A terminal, wherein the terminal comprises a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory, and when the computer program is executed by the processor, following steps are implemented:

in sidelink communication, performing a radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement on a radio link between terminals to monitor radio link quality between the terminals;

wherein the performing the RLM measurement on the radio link between the terminals to monitor the radio link quality between the terminals comprises:

performing the RLM measurement according to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback from a second terminal;

reporting a radio link failure (RLF) to an upper layer when a quantity of discontinuous transmissions (DTX) reaches a configured number L.

12. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein when the computer program is executed by the processor, a following step is further implemented:

performing the RLM measurement on a basis of an RS of the second terminal.

13. The terminal according to claim 12 , wherein a sequence of the RS of the second terminal is generated based on identification information of the second terminal.

14. The terminal according to claim 12 , wherein

resources reserved for terminals are time domain resources different from one another; or,

time domain resources of the terminals are time division multiplexed.

15. The terminal according to claim 12 , wherein when the computer program is executed by the processor, a following step is further implemented:

reporting a first reporting indication in a case that a count that an RLM measurement result is greater than a third threshold reaches a third preset count; or,

reporting a second reporting indication in a case that a count that an RLM measurement result is less than a fourth threshold reaches a fourth preset count.

16. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein the RLM measurement is performed based on a quantity of HARQ feedbacks transmitted by the second terminal.

17. The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein when the computer program is executed by the processor, a following step is further implemented:

reporting a second reporting indication in a case that a count that the quantity of DTXs reaches a sixth preset count.

18. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein when the computer program is executed by the processor, a following step is further implemented:

reporting the RLM measurement result to an upper layer, wherein the RLM measurement result comprises:

a first reporting indication for indicating a good radio link quality; and/or,

a second reporting indication for indicating a poor radio link quality.

19. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein when the computer program is executed by the processor, a following step is further implemented:

reporting a link failure message to an upper layer or triggering a link failure in a case that link quality becomes poor; or,

reporting a link recovery message to an upper layer or triggering a link recovery if link quality becomes better.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, following steps are implemented:

in sidelink communication, performing a radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement on a radio link between terminals to monitor radio link quality between the terminals;

wherein the performing the RLM measurement on the radio link between the terminals to monitor the radio link quality between the terminals comprises:

performing the RLM measurement according to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback from a second terminal;

reporting a radio link failure (RLF) to an upper layer when a quantity of discontinuous transmissions (DTX) reaches a configured number L.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 30, 2021
From: JI, ZICHAO; PAN, XUEMING; WU, HUAMING
To: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD.
Reel/Frame 057662/0473 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201910263195.1 · Apr 2, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2020081904 · Mar 28, 2020
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