Granted Patent B2

US 12,273,860 · App. 17/711,644 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Inventors: Thomas Wirth (Berlin, DE); Sarun Selvanesan (Berlin, DE); Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin, DE); Cornelius Hellge (Berlin, DE); Baris Göktepe (Berlin, DE); Thomas Schierl (Berlin, DE); Roya Ebrahim Rezagah (Berlin, DE)

Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.

H04W72/02H04W72/0446H04W72/20H04W76/20H04W92/18

Abstract

Claims (96)

1. An apparatus comprising:

wherein the processor circuit is arranged for a sidelink communication,

wherein the sidelink communication comprises at least one sidelink frames,

wherein each of the at least one sidelink frames have a control region and a data region,

wherein the control region comprises a first control region and a second control region,

wherein the first control region comprises basic information regarding a sidelink transmission of a packet,

wherein the second control region comprises information regarding data transmission resource location or data transmission resource locations of the packet,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to transmit the packet using more than a single data transmission resource location in a single sidelink frame such that the packet or multiple redundant, versions of the packet is/are to transmitted in data transmission resource locations across the at least one sidelink frames and at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one subsequent sidelink frames are located in continuous or non-continuous sidelink frames, or

wherein between two subsequent sidelink frames a second sidelink frame is used by a user equipment.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first control region and the second control region are transmitted using the same sidelink frame, or

wherein the first control region and the second control region are transmitted using the same sidelink frame along with a portion of the data transmission, or a first version of the data transmission.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first control region comprises an information,

wherein the information comprises a reservation of resources or an information on the second control region or an information pointing to the second control region,

wherein the second control region is in the same sidelink frame,

wherein the second control region is in each of the at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sidelink transmission uses at least one subsequent sidelink frames,

wherein the second control region of the at least one subsequent sidelink frames comprises an information regarding the data transmission resource location of the respective sidelink frame or regarding data transmission resource locations.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first control region comprises an information,

wherein the information comprises a reservation of resources or an information on the second control region or an information pointing to the second control regions in a respective or in the at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sidelink transmission uses at least one subsequent sidelink frames,

wherein each of the at least one subsequent sidelink frames comprises a respective second control portion; and/or

wherein a respective second control portion of at least one succeeding sidelink frames comprises an information pointing to the data region within the respective sidelink frames.

8. The apparatus according to claim 5 ,

wherein within at least one of the succeeding sidelink frames a respective first control portion is retransmitted; and/or

wherein the respective first control portion comprises an information pointing to the at least one second control portions in the at least one further subsequent sidelink frames.

9. The apparatus according claim 1 , wherein the first control portion comprises an information regarding the destination ID of an RX UE; and/or an information regarding a number of the data transmission resource locations; and/or a number of the sidelink frames used for data transmission resource locations; and/or an information pointing to the respective second control portions transmitted using subsequent sidelink frames.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a processor circuit and a memory circuit, wherein the memory is arranged to store instructions for the processor circuit,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged for a sidelink communication,

wherein the sidelink communication comprises at least one sidelink frames,

wherein the at least one sidelink frames comprises a first sidelink frame and at least one subsequent sidelink frames

wherein each of the at least one sidelink frames have a control region and a data region,

wherein a control information belonging to a first control region is transmitted within the data region,

wherein a control information belonging to a second control region is transmitted or partially transmitted using a layer 2 PC5-RRC configurations,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to transmit the packet using more than a single data transmission resource location in a single sidelink frame such that the packet or multiple redundant, versions of the packet is/are to transmitted in data transmission resource locations across the at least one sidelink frames and at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10 ,

wherein the control region comprises a third control region,

wherein a portion of the control information belonging to the second control region is transmitted in the third control region the control region.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the first control region is transmitted using any of the sidelink frames previous to the sidelink frame used for a sidelink transmission of a packet data region or together with the sidelink transmission of the packet.

13. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the second control region is transmitted using the at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

14. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the second control region is transmitted using a sidelink frame previous to the sidelink frame used for a sidelink transmission of a packet or together with the sidelink transmission of the packet.

15. The apparatus according to claim 10 ,

wherein the first control region comprises an information pointing to the second control region or to the information belonging to a second control region transmitted or partially transmitted using the layer 2 PC5-RRC configurations; and/or

wherein the information pointing to a second control region transmitted or partially transmitted as second control region of the control region comprises an information pointing to the second control region of a subsequent sidelink frame or to the information belonging to the second control region transmitted or partially transmitted using the layer 2 PC5-RRC configurations; and/or

wherein the second control region comprises an information regarding data transmission resource location or data transmission resource locations of the packet.

16. The apparatus according to claim 14 ,

wherein a transmission of the packet uses at least two single data transmission resource locations in a single sidelink frame, and/or

wherein the packet is to be transmitted in data transmission resource locations across at least one subsequent sidelink frames, or

wherein multiple versions of the packet are to be transmitted in data transmission resource locations across at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

17. A method comprising:

transmitting a sidelink communication,

wherein the sidelink communication comprises at least one sidelink frames,

wherein each of the at least one sidelink frames have a control region and a data region,

wherein the control region comprises a first control region and a second control region,

wherein the first control region comprises basic information regarding a sidelink transmission of a packet,

wherein the second control region comprises information regarding data transmission resource location or data transmission resource locations of the packet; and

transmitting the packet using more than a single data transmission resource location in a single sidelink frame such that the packet or multiple redundant, versions of the packet is/are to transmitted in data transmission resource locations across the at least one sidelink frames and at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

18. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein the at least one subsequent sidelink frames are located in continuous or non-continuous sidelink frames, or

wherein between two subsequent sidelink frames a second sidelink frame is used by a user equipment.

19. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein the first control region and the second control region are transmitted using the same sidelink frame, or

wherein the first control region and the second control region are transmitted using the same sidelink frame along with a portion of the data transmission, or a first version of the data transmission.

20. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein the first control region comprises an information,

wherein the information comprises a reservation of resources or an information on the second control region or an information pointing to the second control region,

wherein the second control region is in the same sidelink frame,

wherein the second control region is in each of the at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

21. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein the sidelink transmission uses at least one subsequent sidelink frames,

wherein the second control region of the at least one subsequent sidelink frames comprises an information regarding the data transmission resource location of the respective sidelink frame or regarding data transmission resource locations.

22. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein the first control region comprises an information,

wherein the information comprises a reservation of resources or an information on the second control region or an information pointing to the second control regions in a respective or in the at least one subsequent sidelink frames.

23. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein the sidelink transmission uses at least one subsequent sidelink frames,

wherein each of the at least one subsequent sidelink frames comprises a respective second control portion; and/or

wherein a respective second control portion of at least one succeeding sidelink frames comprises an information pointing to the data region within the respective sidelink frames.

24. The method according to claim 21 ,

wherein within at least one of the succeeding sidelink frames a respective first control portion is retransmitted; and/or

wherein the respective first control portion comprises an information pointing to the at least one second control portions in the at least one further subsequent sidelink frames.

25. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein the first control portion comprises an information regarding the destination ID of an RX UE; and/or an information regarding a number of the data transmission resource locations; and/or a number of the sidelink frames used for data transmission resource locations; and/or an information pointing to the respective second control portions transmitted using subsequent sidelink frames.

26. The method according to claim 17 ,

wherein the at least one sidelink frames comprise a transmission time interval, a first interval, a TTI, a slot, and/or a mini-slot,

wherein the first interval has reserved resources.

27. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one sidelink frames comprise a transmission time interval, a first interval, a TTI, a slot, and/or a mini-slot,

wherein the first interval has reserved resources.

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