IP Library Granted Patent US 12,192,967
Granted Patent B2
US 12,192,967 · App. 17/704,923 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Method and apparatus for using sidelink bandwidth part

Inventor: Qun Zhao (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
H04W72/02H04W72/044H04W72/23H04W72/56
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Patent No.
US 12,192,967
App. No.
17/704,923
Granted
Jan 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and apparatus for using a sidelink bandwidth part. The method is implemented by a terminal and includes: receiving a configuration signaling, in which the configuration signaling includes a first information field, and the first information field is configured to indicate a time domain resource location corresponding to a sidelink resource pool; and using the sidelink bandwidth part at the time domain resource location.

Claims (54)

1. A method for using a sidelink bandwidth part, implemented by a terminal and comprising:

receiving a configuration signaling, wherein the configuration signaling comprises a first information field, and the first information field is configured to indicate a time domain resource location corresponding to a sidelink resource pool;

using the sidelink bandwidth part at the time domain resource location;

performing an uplink transmission within the time domain resources using the sidelink bandwidth part; and

in response to frequency resources used for the uplink transmission being not completely within a frequency domain resource range corresponding to the sidelink bandwidth part, discarding the uplink transmission.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein time domain resources of the sidelink bandwidth part are divided with a resource division granularity; and

the resource division granularity comprises at least one of:

(i) an OFDM symbol, (ii) a time slot, (iii) a subframe, (iv) a radio frame, (v) a microsecond,

(vi) a millisecond, and (vii) a second.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein, the configuration signaling comprises at least one of:

(a) a radio resource control (RRC) signaling,

(b) a medium access control control unit (MAC CE) and

(c) a physical layer signaling.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink transmission comprises at least one of:

(x) a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH transmission;

(y) a physical uplink control channel PUCCH transmission; and

(z) a physical random access channel PRACH transmission.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the uplink transmission comprises a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH transmission scheduled by downlink control information; and

performing the uplink transmission in the time domain resources using the sidelink bandwidth part comprises:

receiving downlink control information sent by an access network device, wherein the downlink control information is configured to schedule the terminal to perform the uplink transmission;

performing the uplink transmission in the time domain resource using the sidelink bandwidth part according to the downlink control information;

wherein, the downlink control information is configured to perform frequency domain resource allocation for the uplink transmission according to an uplink bandwidth part activated; or, the downlink control information is configured to perform frequency domain resource allocation for the uplink transmission according to the sidelink bandwidth part.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the downlink control information comprises a second information field configured to indicate a manner of performing the frequency domain resource allocation.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

performing a transmission in the time domain resource using the sidelink bandwidth part according to a priority order in a descending order when there is a time domain conflict between the uplink transmission and a sidelink transmission.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein,

the priority order is a sequence relationship predefined in the terminal;

or,

the priority order is a sequence relationship configured by an access network device.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the priority order is: a priority of a first-level sidelink sending operation is higher than a priority of the uplink transmission, the priority of the uplink transmission is higher than a priority of a second-level sidelink sending operation, and the priority of the second-level sidelink sending operation is higher than a priority of a sidelink receiving operation.

10. A method for using a sidelink bandwidth part, implemented by an access network device and comprising:

sending a configuration signaling to a terminal, wherein the configuration signaling comprises a first information field, and the first information field is configured to indicate a time domain resource location corresponding to a sidelink resource pool, and the terminal is configured to use the sidelink bandwidth part at the time domain resource location based on the configuration signaling, and the terminal is configured to perform an uplink transmission within the time domain resources using the sidelink bandwidth part, and in response to frequency resources used for the uplink transmission being not completely within a frequency domain resource range corresponding to the sidelink bandwidth part, the terminal discards the uplink transmission.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein, time domain resources of the sidelink bandwidth part are divided with a resource division granularity; and

the resource division granularity comprises at least one of: (i) a OFDM symbol, (ii) a time slot, (iii) a subframe, (iv) a radio frame, (v) a microsecond, (vi) a millisecond, and (vii) a second.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the configuration signaling comprises: at least one of

(a) a radio resource control (RRC) signaling,

(b) a medium access control control unit (MAC CE) and

(c) a physical layer signaling.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

sending downlink control information to the terminal, wherein the downlink control information is configured to schedule the terminal to perform the uplink transmission within the time domain resources using the sidelink bandwidth part according to the downlink control information.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the downlink control information is configured to perform frequency domain resource allocation for the uplink transmission according to an uplink bandwidth part activated;

or,

the downlink control information is configured to perform frequency domain resource allocation for the uplink transmission according to the sidelink bandwidth part.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the downlink control information comprises a second information field configured to indicate a manner of performing frequency domain resource allocation.

16. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

sending a downlink configuration signaling to the terminal, wherein the downlink configuration signaling comprises a third information field configured to indicate a priority order, the terminal is configured to perform a transmission in the time domain resource using the sidelink bandwidth part according to a priority order in a descending order when there is a time domain conflict between the uplink transmission and a sidelink transmission.

17. A terminal, comprising:

a processor;

a transceiver connected to the processor;

wherein, the processor is configured to load and execute executable instructions to implement a method for using a sidelink bandwidth part, the method comprises:

receiving a configuration signaling, wherein the configuration signaling comprises a first information field, and the first information field is configured to indicate a time domain resource location corresponding to a sidelink resource pool;

using the sidelink bandwidth part at the time domain resource location;

performing an uplink transmission in the time domain resources using the sidelink bandwidth part; and

in response to frequency resources used for the uplink transmission being not completely within a frequency domain resource range corresponding to the sidelink bandwidth part, discarding the uplink transmission.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 16, 2025
From: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
To: 5G GOLF CARS LLC
Reel/Frame 072917/0943 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 31, 2022
From: ZHAO, QUN
To: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 059462/0538 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019109369 · Sep 30, 2019
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