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Granted Patent B2
US 12,279,251 · App. 18/542,325 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Sidelink communication reliability

Inventors: Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, NJ); Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, NJ); Jing Sun (San Diego, CA); Lik Hang Silas Fong (Bridgewater, NJ)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04W72/1263H04W52/52H04W72/02H04W72/0453H04W72/20H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,279,251
App. No.
18/542,325
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for improving sidelink communication reliability. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may map allocated sidelink resources from a logical domain to a physical domain, where the mapped resources may include greater frequency diversity in the physical domain A frequency range of a sidelink control channel or of a sidelink data channel may be greater in the physical domain than in the logical domain after the mapping. In some examples, sidelink communications may be associated with an aggregation factor that represents a number of repetitions of a sidelink communication. In this example, a UE may repeat a sidelink communication within a contention-based resource pool a number of times before receiving feedback in order to increase communication reliability. A first UE may communicate a sidelink communication with a second UE using a resource mapping or repetitions of the sidelink communication.

Claims (46)

1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

one or more memories; and

one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and configured to cause the UE to:

receive a first signal that indicates a communication resource pool comprising one or more contention-based communication resources for sidelink communications;

receive a second signal that indicates a quantity of repetitions associated with the communication resource pool; and

communicate, via a contention-based communication resource from the one or more contention-based communication resources, one or more repetitions of a sidelink communication in a quantity of consecutive time periods based at least in part on the quantity of repetitions, wherein the contention-based communication resource is based at least in part on a transmission priority associated with the one or more repetitions, and wherein the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication are unassociated with control information used to schedule repetitions.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to:

select, based at least in part on a configuration for the transmission priority associated with the one or more repetitions, the contention-based communication resource from the one or more contention-based communication resources to communicate the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, to communicate the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication, the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to:

communicate consecutive repetitions of the sidelink communication via at least partially different frequency ranges.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to:

identify a redundancy version identifier for each of the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication based at least in part on a configured pattern of redundancy version identifiers.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to:

receive a third signal from a broadcast UE, wherein the third signal indicates the communication resource pool, the quantity of repetitions, or both.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to:

receive a third signal from a network node, wherein the third signal indicates the communication resource pool, the quantity of repetitions, or both.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to:

perform a combining process based at least in part on the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the quantity of repetitions is associated with feedback.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the quantity of repetitions is unassociated with feedback.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:

one or more antennas coupled with the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive the first signal, receive the second signal, and communicate the one or more repetitions based at least in part on the one or more antennas.

11. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving a first signal that indicates a communication resource pool comprising one or more contention-based communication resources for sidelink communications;

receiving a second signal that indicates a quantity of repetitions associated with the communication resource pool; and

communicating, via a contention-based communication resource from the one or more contention-based communication resources, one or more repetitions of a sidelink communication in a quantity of consecutive time periods based at least in part on the quantity of repetitions, the contention-based communication resource based at least in part on a transmission priority associated with the one or more repetitions, and the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication unassociated with control information used to schedule repetitions.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

selecting, based at least in part on a configuration for the transmission priority associated with the one or more repetitions, the contention-based communication resource from the one or more contention-based communication resources to communicate the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication.

13. The method of claim 11 , the communicating the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication comprising:

communicating consecutive repetitions of the sidelink communication via at least partially different frequency ranges.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

identifying a redundancy version identifier for each of the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication based at least in part on a configured pattern of redundancy version identifiers.

15. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving a third signal from a broadcast UE, the third signal indicating the communication resource pool, the quantity of repetitions, or both.

16. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving a third signal from a network node, the third signal indicating the communication resource pool, the quantity of repetitions, or both.

17. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

performing a combining process based at least in part on the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication.

18. The method of claim 11 , the quantity of repetitions associated with feedback.

19. The method of claim 11 , the quantity of repetitions unassociated with feedback.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the UE to:

receive a first signal that indicates a communication resource pool comprising one or more contention-based communication resources for sidelink communications;

receive a second signal that indicates a quantity of repetitions associated with the communication resource pool; and

communicate, via a contention-based communication resource from the one or more contention-based communication resources, one or more repetitions of a sidelink communication in a quantity of consecutive time periods based at least in part on the quantity of repetitions, wherein the contention-based communication resource is based at least in part on a transmission priority associated with the one or more repetitions, and wherein the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication are unassociated with control information used to schedule repetitions.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20 , wherein the instructions are executable by the one or more processors to cause the UE to:

select, based at least in part on a configuration for the transmission priority associated with the one or more repetitions, the contention-based communication resource from the one or more contention-based communication resources to communicate the one or more repetitions of the sidelink communication.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2024
From: WANG, XIAOJIE; GUPTA, PIYUSH; SUN, JING; FONG, LIK HANG SILAS
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 066311/0183 →
Continuity (3)
Division 17350314 · Jun 17, 2021
Provisional Application 63043011 · Jun 23, 2020
Related Publication 20240121775A1 · Apr 11, 2024
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