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US 12,446,064 · App. 17/866,280 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Handling packets with different priorities in sidelink systems

Inventors: Arjun Bharadwaj (Cupertino, CA); Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, NJ); Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, NJ); Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Pleasanton, CA)
Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
H04W72/569H04L5/0055H04W28/26H04W72/0446H04W72/51H04W4/70
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Patent No.
US 12,446,064
App. No.
17/866,280
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems (e.g., sidelink systems, such as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) systems), wireless devices may perform dynamic resource reservations to schedule packet transmissions (e.g., data packet transmissions). Different packets may correspond to different priority levels. To support flexible resource reservation for high priority packets, wireless devices may implement techniques for preempting lower priority reservations. For example, a wireless device may identify reservations for transmitting different packets during a same transmission time interval (TTI). The device may determine whether a first or second packet has a higher relative priority and may communicate in the V2X system during the TTI according to the relative priorities. For example, a device that reserved the TTI for the lower priority packet may refrain from transmitting the packet during the TTI, while a device that reserved the TTI for the higher priority packet may transmit the packet.

Claims (55)

1. A method for wireless communications, comprising:

identifying, by a first wireless device in a sidelink system, a first packet for transmission during a transmission time interval within the sidelink system;

determining that a second packet is reserved for transmission by a second wireless device during at least a portion of the transmission time interval within the sidelink system;

determining whether the first packet or the second packet has a higher relative priority;

determining that a reference signal received power measurement associated with a reservation for the second packet by the second wireless device is greater than a reference signal received power threshold;

receiving the second packet based at least in part on determining that the second packet has the higher relative priority and the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold; and

selecting one or more updated resources of an updated set of candidate resources to transmit the first packet based at least in part on the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the second packet is reserved for transmission by the second wireless device further comprises:

receiving an indication that one or more resources of the transmission time interval are reserved via a first reservation for the second packet.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

excluding the one or more resources of the transmission time interval from the updated set of candidate resources based at least in part on the second packet having the higher relative priority;

refraining from transmitting the first packet during the one or more resources of the transmission time interval based at least in part on the second packet having the higher relative priority.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second packet comprises a re-transmission of a packet with the higher relative priority than the first packet, the method further comprising:

selecting the transmission time interval to transmit the first packet;

receiving control information comprising a reservation for transmission of the second packet during at least the portion of the selected transmission time interval; and

refraining from transmitting the first packet during the selected transmission time interval based at least in part on the reservation for transmission of the second packet, the determining that the second packet has the higher relative priority, and the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

communicating, in resources reserved for negative acknowledgment messaging, a reservation for the transmission time interval by either transmitting a first reservation for the first packet or receiving a second reservation for the second packet, wherein either determining the first packet for transmission during the transmission time interval or determining that the second packet is reserved for transmission during at least the portion of the transmission time interval is based at least in part on the reservation of the first packet or the reservation of the second packet.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the reservation for the transmission time interval comprises a dedicated sequence.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmission time interval comprises a plurality of slots.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

modifying a maximum re-transmission limit for a packet in the sidelink system based at least in part on a relative priority of the packet.

9. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

a transceiver;

at least one memory; and

at least one processor in electronic communication with the at least one memory and the transceiver, and responsive to instructions stored in the at least one memory and executable by the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:

identify, by a first wireless device in a sidelink system, a first packet for transmission during a transmission time interval within the sidelink system;

determine that a second packet is reserved for transmission by a second wireless device during at least a portion of the transmission time interval within the sidelink system;

determine whether the first packet or the second packet has a higher relative priority;

determine that a reference signal received power measurement associated with a reservation for the second packet by the second wireless device is greater than a reference signal received power threshold;

receive the second packet based at least in part on determining that the second packet has the higher relative priority and the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold; and

select one or more updated resources of an updated set of candidate resources to transmit the first packet based at least in part on the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the instructions to determine that the second packet is reserved for transmission by the second wireless device are further executable by the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:

receive, via the transceiver, an indication that one or more resources of the transmission time interval are reserved via a first reservation for the second packet.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:

excluding the one or more resources of the transmission time interval from the updated set of candidate resources based at least in part on the second packet having the higher relative priority;

refrain from transmission, via the transceiver, of the first packet during the one or more resources of the transmission time interval based at least in part on the second packet having the higher relative priority; and

select the one or more updated resources of the updated set of candidate resources to transmit the first packet based at least in part on the refraining and the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein a reservation for the transmission time interval is communicated via the transceiver by at least one of transmission of a first reservation for the first packet or reception of a second reservation for the second packet, and wherein at least one of the first packet for transmission during the transmission time interval is identified or the second packet is determined as being reserved for transmission during at least the portion of the transmission time interval based at least in part on the reservation as communicated.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the reservation for the transmission time interval comprises a dedicated sequence.

14. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the transmission time interval comprises a plurality of slots.

15. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

means for identifying, by a first wireless device in a sidelink system, a first packet for transmission during a transmission time interval within the sidelink system;

means for determining that a second packet is reserved for transmission by a second wireless device during at least a portion of the transmission time interval within the sidelink system;

means for determining whether the first packet or the second packet has a higher relative priority;

means for determining that a reference signal received power measurement associated with a reservation for the second packet by the second wireless device is greater than a reference signal received power threshold;

means for receiving the second packet based at least in part on determining that the second packet has the higher relative priority and the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold; and

means for selecting one or more updated resources of an updated set of candidate resources to transmit the first packet based at least in part on the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communications, the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

identify, by a first wireless device in a sidelink system, a first packet for transmission during a transmission time interval within the sidelink system;

determine that a second packet is reserved for transmission by a second wireless device during at least a portion of the transmission time interval within the sidelink system;

determine whether the first packet or the second packet has a higher relative priority;

determine that a reference signal received power measurement associated with a reservation for the second packet by the second wireless device is greater than a reference signal received power threshold;

receive the second packet based at least in part on determining that the second packet has the higher relative priority and the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold; and

select one or more updated resources of an updated set of candidate resources to transmit the first packet based at least in part on the reference signal received power measurement being greater than the reference signal received power threshold.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2022
From: BHARADWAJ, ARJUN; NGUYEN, TIEN VIET; GULATI, KAPIL; BAGHEL, SUDHIR KUMAR
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 060525/0889 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 16737844 · Jan 8, 2020
Provisional Application 62790885 · Jan 10, 2019
Related Publication 20220361192A1 · Nov 10, 2022
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