Managing sidelink and non-sidelink information
To manage sidelink and non-sidelink information, a user device obtains, by processing hardware in a user device communicating with a radio access network (RAN), a first set of information for sidelink communication with another user device ( 504 A), and obtains, by the processing hardware, a second set of information for non-sidelink communication ( 504 B). The user device transmits, by the processing hardware to the RAN, a first message including the first set of information ( 1010 A), and transmits, by the processing hardware to the RAN, a second message including the second set of information ( 1010 B), the first and second messages being separate messages.
1. A method for managing sidelink and non-sidelink information in a user device operating using multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) with a radio access network (RAN) including a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN), the method comprising:
obtaining, by the user device, a first set of information for sidelink communication with another user device;
obtaining, by the user device, a second set of information for non-sidelink communication;
transmitting, by the user device to the MN, a first container message including a first radio resource control message that includes the first set of information; and
transmitting, by the user device to the MN or the SN, a second container message, different from the first container message, that includes a second radio resource control message including the second set of information.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
excluding, by the user device, the second set of information from the first radio resource control message.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
excluding, by the user device, the first set of information from the second radio resource control message.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first and second sets of information include measurement results.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting, by the user device to the RAN, a third radio resource control message to request or release sidelink resources or report quality of service information for sidelink communication with the other user device; and
receiving, by the user device from the RAN, a first measurement configuration configuring the user device to measure the first set of measurement results according to the first measurement configuration; and
receiving, by the user device from the RAN, a second measurement configuration configuring the user device to measure the second set of measurement results according to the second measurement configuration.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
transmitting the first radio resource control message includes transmitting the first radio resource control message to the MN via a first signaling radio bearer (SRB); and
transmitting the second radio resource control message includes transmitting the second radio resource control message to the SN via a second SRB.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
determining, by the user device, that the second SRB is configured; and
transmitting, by the user device to the SN, the second radio resource control message via the second SRB in response to determining that the second SRB is configured.
8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
determining, by the user device, that the second SRB is not configured; and
transmitting, by the user device to the MN, the second radio resource control message via the first SRB in response to determining that the second SRB is not configured.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the first set of information includes configured grant assistance information; and
the second set of information includes at least one of: information regarding enabling or disabling power saving, information regarding temporarily reduced capabilities or releasing the temporarily reduced capabilities, overheating assistance information, information indicating the overheating situation is gone, information regarding experiencing an in-device coexistence (IDC) problem or the IDC problem is gone, a preferred configuration, a preferred maximum aggregated bandwidth, a preferred maximum number of component carriers (CCs), a preferred maximum number of multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) layers, a preferred minimum scheduling offset, or a preferred radio resource control state.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the second container message to the MN or the SN includes transmitting the second container message to the MN.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the second container message to the MN or the SN includes transmitting the second container message to the SN.
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first and second sets of information include UE assistance information.
13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user device operates using Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA)-New Radio (NR) DC (EN-DC) with the MN and the SN.
14. A user device operating using multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) with a radio access network (RAN) including a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN), the user device comprising processing hardware configured to:
obtain a first set of information for sidelink communication with another user device;
obtain a second set of information for non-sidelink communication;
transmit a first container message including a first radio resource control message to the MN including the first set of information; and
transmit a second container message to the MN or the SN, different from the first container message, that includes a second radio resource control message including the second set of information.
15. The user device of claim 14 , wherein the second container message is transmitted to the MN.
16. The user device of claim 14 , wherein the second container message is transmitted to the SN.
17. The user device of claim 14 , wherein the processing hardware is further configured to:
exclude the second set of information from the first radio resource control message.
18. The user device of claim 14 , wherein the first and second sets of information include measurement results or UE assistance information.
19. The user device of claim 14 , wherein the processing hardware is further configured to:
exclude the first set of information from the second radio resource control message.