Method and apparatus for controlling semi-persistent scheduling

1. A method of controlling Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) for a user device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the user device, sidelink (SL) SPS radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) from a base station; and

receiving, by the user device, a SL grant including downlink control information (DCI from the base station with a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH),

wherein the DCI comprises a SL SPS index field and an activation/release indication field if the DCI with Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) is scrambled with the SL SPS RNTI,

wherein a start subframe for Sidelink Control (SC) period is determined based on an offset value and a subframe in which the sidelink grant is received, and

wherein an index of a subframe for SC period is relative to System Frame Number (SFN) 0.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a value for the SL SPS RNTI is determined as one of values which is described as below table.

Values (hexa-decimal)

RNTI

0001-FFF3

SL SPS RNTI

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

scrambling, by the user device, PDCCH by using the SL SPS RNTI for the user device, wherein the DCI scrambled by the SL SPS RNTI enable the user device to operate an SL SPS associated with a direct communication between the user device and another user device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the SL SPS index field has a 3-bits field, and

wherein a maximum quantity of a SL SPS configurations for the user device is eight.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein a 1-bit field of the 3-bits field is a activation/release indication field.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user device comprises one or more of: vehicle having a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication capability, a vehicle having a vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication capability, a vehicle having a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication capability, or a vehicle having a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication capability.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, by the user device, a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising release information (implicitReleaseAfter) to the user device.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein SL grant is released when consecutive Medium Access Control Protocol Data Units (MAC PDUs) containing zero MAC Service Data Unit (SDU) is transmitted, and

wherein the number of the consecutive MAC PDUs is determined by the release information.