Granted Patent B2

US 12,302,457 · App. 18/597,987 · Granted May 13, 2025

Inventors: Sarun Selvanesan (Berlin, DE); Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin, DE); Roya Ebrahim Rezagah (Berlin, DE); Cornelius Hellge (Berlin, DE); Thomas Wirth (Berlin, DE); Thomas Schierl (Berlin, DE); Robin Thomas (Berlin, DE); Baris Goktepe (Berlin, DE)

Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.

H04W92/18H04L1/1854

Abstract

Claims (69)

1. A device comprising:

a processor circuit and a memory circuit, wherein the memory is arranged to store instructions for the processor circuit,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to communicate using a portion of a plurality sidelink resources,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to receive a sidelink feedback from a receiving device,

wherein the sidelink feedback indicates a successful or non-successful reception by the receiving device,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to report the sidelink feedback to a third device,

wherein the third device is arranged to provide to sidelink resources for a possible retransmission of a data packet in response to the sidelink feedback,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to reporting the sidelink feedback is activated or deactivated in response to at least one conditions,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to deactivate the sidelink feedback reporting in response to a deactivation signal from the third device,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to switch to an out-of-coverage sidelink feedback procedure in response to the deactivation signal from the third device.

2. The device claim 1 , wherein the at least one conditions are selected from the group consisting of a goal of reducing physical uplink control channel utilization for the sidelink feedback, a goal of reducing reporting overhead, an out-of-coverage timer/trigger, a quality of service, reliability and/or latency requirement, a trigger by an application, a change in link quality, a change of interference level, and reaching or exceeding a packet loss threshold.

3. The device claim 1 ,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to select sidelink resources for the possible retransmission in accordance with an out-of-coverage sidelink feedback procedure in response to the deactivation signal from the third device using third device assistance,

wherein the third device assistance is selected from the group consisting of providing resources from a pool/mini resource pool and providing grant-free resources.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the sidelink communication comprises:

a unicast transmission from the processor circuit,

a multicast transmission from the processor circuit to a plurality of receiving devices,

a groupcast from the processor circuit to a plurality of receiving devices,

a broadcast transmission by the processor circuit.

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein a retransmission is selected from the group consisting of transmitting the data packet itself, transmitting one or more duplicates of the data packet, transmitting one or more redundancy versions of the data packet, and transmitting one or more erasure correction codes for the data packet.

6. The device of claim 5 , wherein the one or more redundancy versions provide for an incremental redundancy at the receiver device.

7. The device of claim 1 ,

wherein the sidelink resources comprise a first group of resources and a second group of resources,

wherein the first group of resources comprises a first numerology,

wherein the second group of resources comprises a second numerology,

wherein the first numerology is different from the second numerology.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the set of sidelink resources comprises a plurality of contiguous or non contiguous resources across a frequency domain and adjacent or non-adjacent across a time domain.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the set of sidelink resources defines at least one of a resource pool, a mini-resource pool, a band width part in a resource pool and a resource pool in a band width part.

10. A device comprising:

a processor circuit and a memory circuit, wherein the memory is arranged to store instructions for the processor circuit,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to communicate using a portion of a plurality of sidelink resources,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to provide sidelink resources for a possible retransmission of a data packet over the sidelink to a receiving device in response to the sidelink feedback,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to deactivate the sidelink feedback reporting in response to a deactivation signal from the third device,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to switch to an out-of-coverage sidelink feedback procedure in response to the deactivation signal from the third device.

11. A device comprising:

a processor circuit and a memory circuit, wherein the memory is arranged to store instructions for the processor circuit,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to communicate using a portion of a plurality of sidelink resources,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to receive a sidelink feedback from a receiving device for a plurality of data transmissions,

wherein the sidelink feedback indicates a successful or non-successful reception by the receiving device,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to bundle a plurality of sidelink feedbacks,

wherein the bundle is reported to a third device,

wherein the processor is arranged to provide a slot timing value,

wherein the slot timing value indicates the number of slots before the sidelink feedback is reported in physical uplink control channel,

wherein the slot timing value is sent on a physical shared sidelink channel.

12. A device comprising:

a processor circuit and a memory circuit, wherein the memory is arranged to store instructions for the processor circuit,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to communicate using a portion of a plurality sidelink resources,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to receive a sidelink feedback from a receiving device,

wherein the sidelink feedback indicates a successful or non-successful reception by the receiving device,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to report the sidelink feedback to a third device,

wherein the third device is arranged to provide to sidelink resources for a possible retransmission of a data packet in response to the sidelink feedback,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to reporting the sidelink feedback is activated or deactivated in response to at least one conditions,

wherein the processor circuit is arranged to select sidelink resources for the possible retransmission in accordance with an out-of-coverage sidelink feedback procedure in response to the deactivation signal from the third device using third device assistance,

wherein the third device assistance is selected from the group consisting of providing resources from a pool/mini resource pool and providing grant-free resources.

13. The device claim 12 , wherein the at least one conditions are selected from the group consisting of a goal of reducing physical uplink control channel utilization for the sidelink feedback, a goal of reducing reporting overhead, an out-of-coverage timer/trigger, a quality of service, reliability and/or latency requirement, a trigger by an application, a change in link quality, a change of interference level, and reaching or exceeding a packet loss threshold.

14. The device of claim 12 , wherein the sidelink communication comprises:

a unicast transmission from the processor circuit,

a multicast transmission from the processor circuit to a plurality of receiving devices,

a groupcast from the processor circuit to a plurality of receiving devices,

a broadcast transmission by the processor circuit.

15. The device of claim 12 , wherein a retransmission is selected from the group consisting of transmitting the data packet itself, transmitting one or more duplicates of the data packet, transmitting one or more redundancy versions of the data packet, and transmitting one or more erasure correction codes for the data packet.

16. The device of claim 15 , wherein the one or more redundancy versions provide for an incremental redundancy at the receiver device.

17. The device of claim 12 ,

wherein the sidelink resources comprise a first group of resources and a second group of resources,

wherein the first group of resources comprises a first numerology,

wherein the second group of resources comprises a second numerology,

wherein the first numerology is different from the second numerology.

18. The device of claim 12 , wherein the set of sidelink resources comprises a plurality of contiguous or non contiguous resources across a frequency domain and adjacent or non-adjacent across a time domain.

19. The device of claim 12 , wherein the set of sidelink resources defines at least one of a resource pool, a mini-resource pool, a band width part in a resource pool and a resource pool in a band width part.

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References Cited (21)