Two-stage design for new radio (NR) sidelink control information (SCI)
A receive (Rx) UE performs blind detection to decode a first-stage Sidelink Control Information (SCI) in a received signal. The first-stage SCI contains control information for the Rx UE to locate time-and-frequency resources used by a transmit (Tx) UE. The time-and-frequency resources are used to transmit the first-stage SCI and a second-stage SCI via a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) and to transmit data via a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) associated with the PSCCH. The Rx UE locates the second-stage SCI in the time-and-frequency resources based on the first-stage SCI. The second-stage SCI contains additional control information from the Tx UE to the Rx UE for the sidelink V2X communication. The Rx UE decodes the second-stage SCI using at least in part an identifier which identifies the Rx UE as a destination of the received signal.
1. A method performed by a receive (Rx) UE for sidelink Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, comprising:
decoding, using blind detection, a first-stage Sidelink Control Information (SCI) in a received signal, wherein the first-stage SCI contains control information for the Rx UE to locate time-and-frequency resources used by a transmit (Tx) UE, and wherein the time-and-frequency resources are used to transmit the first-stage SCI via a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) and to transmit a second-stage SCI and data via a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) associated with the PSCCH; and
locating the second-stage SCI in the time-and-frequency resources based on the first-stage SCI, wherein the second-stage SCI contains additional control information from the Tx UE to the Rx UE for the sidelink V2X communication,
wherein the second-stage SCI contains the additional control information which includes a source identifier and a destination identifier.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein decoding the second-stage SCI further comprises:
locating the second-stage SCI for the decoding when the received signal is a unicast or a groupcast from the Tx UE to the Rx UE.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first-stage SCI contains the control information for the Rx UE to locate reserved time-and-frequency resources for future data transmission from the Tx UE.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first-stage SCI has a predefined payload size which is same for broadcast, unicast and groupcast.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
locating the second-stage SCI within the time-and-frequency resources based on a start location of the first-stage SCI.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second-stage SCI contains the additional control information which further includes at least one of: a modulation order, a code rate, redundancy information, Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information, reference signal information, position information of the Tx UE.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first-stage SCI and the second-stage SCI are different with respect to one or more of: a payload size, a code rate, and a data scrambler for scrambling error-checking bits.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first-stage SCI includes first error-checking bits which are not scrambled or scrambled by a data sequence known to UEs in a same resource pool as the Tx UE, and the second-stage SCI includes error-checking bits which are scrambled by the identifier specific to the Rx UE or a destination group including the Rx UE.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PSCCH includes a first part carrying the first-stage SCI and a second part carrying the second-stage SCI, and wherein the first part and the second part of the PSCCH share the time-and-frequency resources with the PSSCH by one or more of: Frequency-Division Multiplexing and Time-Division Multiplexing.
10. A method performed by a transmit (Tx) UE for sidelink Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, comprising:
encoding a first-stage Sidelink Control Information (SCI) which contains control information for a receive (Rx) UE to locate time-and-frequency resources used by the Tx UE for the sidelink V2X communication, wherein encoding of the first-stage SCI does not use an identifier which identifies the Rx UE as a destination of the sidelink V2X communication;
encoding a second-stage SCI using at least in part the identifier;
transmitting the first-stage SCI via a first part and a second part of a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH), respectively, wherein a location of the second-stage SCI in the time-and-frequency resources is determined based on the first-stage SCI; and
transmitting the second-stage SCI and data via a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) associated with the PSCCH using a portion of the time-and-frequency resources,
wherein the second-stage SCI contains the additional control information which includes a source identifier and a destination identifier.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein encoding the second-stage SCI further comprises:
encoding the second-stage SCI when the sidelink V2X communication between the Tx UE and the Rx UE is a unicast or a groupcast.
12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first-stage SCI contains the control information for the Rx UE to locate reserved time-and-frequency resources for future data transmission from the Tx UE.
13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first-stage SCI has a predefined payload size which is same for broadcast, unicast and groupcast.
14. The method of claim 10 , wherein a start location of the second-stage SCI within the time-and-frequency resources is determined from a start location of the first-stage SCI.
15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the second-stage SCI contains the additional control information which includes at least one of: a modulation order, a code rate, redundancy information, Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information, reference signal information, position information of the Tx UE.
16. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first-stage SCI and the second-stage SCI are different with respect to one or more of: a payload size, a code rate, and a data scrambler for scrambling error-checking bits.
17. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first-stage SCI includes first error-checking bits which are not scrambled or scrambled by a data sequence known to UEs in a same resource pool as the Tx UE, and wherein the second-stage SCI includes second error-checking bits which are scrambled by the identifier specific to the Rx UE or a destination group including the Rx UE.
18. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first part and the second part of the PSCCH share the time-and-frequency resources with the PSSCH by one or more of: Frequency-Division Multiplexing and Time-Division Multiplexing.
19. A receive (Rx) user equipment (UE) operative to perform sidelink vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, comprising:
an antenna;
a transceiver coupled to the antenna;
one or more processors coupled to the transceiver; and
memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are operative to perform the method according to claim 1 .
20. A transmit (Tx) user equipment (UE) operative to perform sidelink vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, comprising:
an antenna;
a transceiver coupled to the antenna;
one or more processors coupled to the transceiver; and
memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are operative to perform the method according to claim 10 .