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Granted Patent B2
US 11,871,399 · App. 17/901,329 · Granted Jan 9, 2024

User equipment (UE) and methods for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) sidelink communication in accordance with a short transmission time interval (TTI)

Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Mikhail Shilov (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Seunghee Han (San Jose, CA); Sergey Panteleev (Nizhny Novgorod, RU); Sergey Sosnin (Zavolzhie, RU); Pavel Dyakov (Nizhny Novgorod, RU)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W72/12H04L5/0087H04W4/44H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 11,871,399
App. No.
17/901,329
Granted
Jan 9, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The UE may select, from a plurality of short transmission time intervals (TTIs), a short TTI for a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) sidelink transmission by the UE. The short TTIs may occur within a legacy TTI. The short TTIs may be allocated for V2V sidelink transmissions by non-legacy UEs. The legacy TTI may be allocated for V2V sidelink transmissions by legacy UEs. The UE may transmit, in accordance with the legacy TTI, a legacy physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) to indicate, to legacy UEs, the V2V sidelink transmission by the UE. The UE may transmit, in accordance with the selected short TTI, a short PSCCH (sPSCCH) to indicate, to non-legacy UEs, the V2V sidelink transmission by the UE.

Claims (58)

1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

memory; and

processing circuitry in communication with the memory and configured to:

select a sidelink resource for sidelink transmission; and

transmit the sidelink transmission on the selected sidelink resource, wherein the sidelink transmission includes an initial orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the initial OFDM symbol is a copy of a second OFDM symbol, wherein the second OFDM symbol immediately follows the initial OFDM symbol, wherein the second OFDM symbol includes at least one of a physical sidelink shared data channel or a physical sidelink control channel, and wherein, when the sidelink transmission includes 6 symbols or 7 symbols, a second symbol and a sixth symbol of the sidelink transmission are demodulation reference signals (DM-RS).

2. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

reserve a first set of resources for the sidelink transmission; and

reserve a second set of resources for a second transmission process, wherein the first set of resources and the second set of resources are shifted in time with respect to one another.

3. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

transmit information for reservation for resources for the sidelink transmission to a second UE.

4. The UE of claim 3 ,

wherein the information for the reservation of resources for the sidelink transmission to the second UE further includes resources for an acknowledgment to be received from the second UE.

5. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

sense resources during a sensing window.

6. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the sidelink resource is selected from a resource pool.

7. The UE of claim 6 ,

wherein the resource pool includes time resources and frequency resources.

8. A method for transmitting a sidelink transmission, comprising:

a user equipment,

selecting a sidelink resource for sidelink transmission; and

transmitting the sidelink transmission on the selected sidelink resource, wherein the sidelink transmission includes an initial orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the initial OFDM symbol is a copy of a second OFDM symbol, wherein the second OFDM symbol immediately follows the initial OFDM symbol, wherein the second OFDM symbol includes at least one of a physical sidelink shared data channel or a physical sidelink control channel, and wherein, when the sidelink transmission includes 6 symbols or 7 symbols, a second symbol and a sixth symbol of the sidelink transmission are demodulation reference signals (DM-RS).

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

the UE,

reserving a first set of resources for the sidelink transmission; and

reserving a second set of resources for a second transmission process, wherein the first set of resources and the second set of resources are shifted in time with respect to one another.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

the UE,

transmitting information for reservation for resources for the sidelink transmission to a second UE.

11. The method of claim 10 ,

wherein the information for the reservation of resources for the sidelink transmission to the second UE further includes resources for an acknowledgment to be received from the second UE.

12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

the UE,

sensing resources during a sensing window.

13. The method of claim 8 ,

wherein the sidelink resource is selected from a resource pool.

14. The method of claim 13 ,

wherein the resource pool includes time resources and frequency resources.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors to perform operations for communication by a user equipment (UE), the operations to configure the one or more processors to:

select a sidelink resource for sidelink transmission; and

transmit the sidelink transmission on the selected sidelink resource, wherein the sidelink transmission includes an initial orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the initial OFDM symbol is a copy of a second OFDM symbol, wherein the second OFDM symbol immediately follows the initial OFDM symbol, wherein the second OFDM symbol includes at least one of a physical sidelink shared data channel or a physical sidelink control channel, and wherein, when the sidelink transmission includes 6 symbols or 7 symbols, a second symbol and a sixth symbol of the sidelink transmission are demodulation reference signals (DM-RS).

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 ,

wherein the operations further configure the one or more processors to:

reserve a first set of resources for the sidelink transmission; and

reserve a second set of resources for a second transmission process, wherein the first set of resources and the second set of resources are shifted in time with respect to one another.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 ,

wherein the operations further configure the one or more processors to:

transmit information for reservation for resources for the sidelink transmission to a second UE, wherein the information for the reservation of resources for the sidelink transmission to the second UE further includes resources for an acknowledgment to be received from the second UE.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 ,

wherein the operations further configure the one or more processors to:

sense resources during a sensing window.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 ,

wherein the sidelink resource is selected from a resource pool.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19 ,

wherein the resource pool includes time resources and frequency resources.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 16496321
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