Method and apparatus for performing sidelink communication in a communication system
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method of a first communication device includes: receiving a first connection request from a second communication device, wherein the first connection request may include a first indication indicating that a first logical channel between the first communication device and the second communication device is associated with a third communication device.
1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving a first data from a second UE, wherein the first data comprises first sidelink control information, and the first sidelink control information comprises a destination field indicating an identity of the first UE; and
decoding the first data into a first medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU),
wherein:
the first MAC PDU comprises a destination field indicating the identity of the first UE;
the destination field of the first sidelink control information comprises a part of the identity of the first UE; and
the destination field of the first MAC PDU comprises the remaining part of the identity of the first UE.
2. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein:
the first MAC PDU comprises at least one MAC sub-header and at least one MAC service data unit (SDU), each MAC sub-header of the at least one MAC sub-header corresponds to a respective one of the at least one MAC SDU, and each MAC sub-header comprises a source field and a destination field; and
the source field indicates an identity of a source communication device of a corresponding MAC SDU, and the destination field indicates an identity of a destination communication device of the corresponding MAC SDU.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein:
the source field comprises at least a part of the identity of the source communication device, and wherein the destination field comprises at least a part of the identity of the destination communication device;
the first MAC PDU comprises a first MAC SDU and a second MAC SDU, and the destination communication device of the first MAC SDU is different from the destination communication device of the second MAC SDU;
or a combination thereof.
4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first MAC PDU comprises a first MAC SDU, and the method further comprises:
transmitting a second data associated with the first data to the destination communication device of the first MAC SDU when the destination communication device of the first MAC SDU is not the first communication device.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein transmitting the second data comprises:
multiplexing the first data and a third data into the second data, wherein the first data and the third data are received from different logical channels, and the destination communication device of the third data is the same as the destination communication device of the first MAC SDU.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein multiplexing the first data and the third data comprises:
encoding the first data into a second MAC SDU of a second MAC PDU, wherein a second MAC sub-header corresponding to the second MAC SDU comprises a source field indicating an identity of a source communication device of the first data and a destination field indicating an identity of a destination communication device of the first data; and
encoding the third data into a third MAC SDU of the second MAC PDU, wherein a third MAC sub-header corresponding to the second MAC SDU comprises a source field indicating an identity of a source communication device of the third data and a destination field indicating an identity of the destination communication device of the first data.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the source communication device of the first data is different from the source communication device of the third data.
8. The method of claim 4 , wherein the second data comprises second sidelink control information, and the second sidelink control information comprises a source field indicating the identity of the first communication device.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
decoding the first data into a first medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU), wherein the first MAC PDU comprises a first MAC header including a destination field indicating the identity of the first UE.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
decoding the first MAC PDU into a first Adaptation (ADAP) PDU, wherein a first ADAP header of the first ADAP PDU comprises a source field indicating an identity of the second UE and a destination field indicating an identity of a destination communication device.
11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
transmitting a second data associated with the first data to the destination communication device when the destination communication device is not the first UE.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein transmitting the second data comprises:
multiplexing the first data and a third data into the second data, wherein the destination communication device of the third data is the same as the destination communication device of the first ADAP PDU.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein multiplexing the first data and the third data comprises:
encoding the first data into a second ADAP PDU, wherein a second ADAP header of the second ADAP PDU comprises a source field indicating an identity of the second UE and a destination field indicating an identity of the destination communication device; and
encoding the third data into a third ADAP PDU, wherein a third ADAP header of the third ADAP PDU comprises a source field indicating an identity of a third UE and a destination field indicating an identity of the destination communication device.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the third UE is different from the second UE.
15. The method of claim 13 , wherein multiplexing the first data and the third data comprises:
encoding the second ADAP PDU and the third ADAP PDU into a second MAC PDU, wherein a header of the second MAC PDU comprises a source field indicating an identity of the first UE.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein transmitting the second data comprises:
encoding the second MAC PDU into the second data, wherein the second data comprises second sidelink control information, and the second sidelink control information comprises a source field indicating the identity of the first UE.
17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the source field of the second sidelink control information comprises at least a part the identity of the first UE.
18. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the UE to:
receive a first data from a second UE, wherein the first data comprises first sidelink control information, and the first sidelink control information comprises a destination field indicating an identity of the first UE; and
decode the first data into a first medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU),
wherein:
the first MAC PDU comprises a destination field indicating the identity of the first UE;
the destination field of the first sidelink control information comprises a part of the identity of the first UE; and
the destination field of the first MAC PDU comprises the remaining part of the identity of the first UE.