IP Library Granted Patent US 12,309,748
Granted Patent B2
US 12,309,748 · App. 17/595,885 · Granted May 20, 2025

Terminal and communication method

Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Yanru Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/02H04W72/0446H04W72/0453H04W72/20H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,309,748
App. No.
17/595,885
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal includes a receiving unit that performs reception on at least one of a plurality of sidelink control channels or a plurality of sidelink shared channels; a control unit that selects, upon detecting that a number of a plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted exceeds an upper limit number, the upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels from among the plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted, wherein each of the feedback channels is associated with at least one of a control channel of the plurality of sidelink control channels or a shared channel of the plurality of sidelink shared channel; and a transmitting unit that performs simultaneous transmissions on the selected upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels.

Claims (23)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver that performs reception on at least one of a plurality of sidelink control channels or a plurality of sidelink shared channels;

a processor that selects, upon detecting that a number of a plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted exceeds an upper limit number, the upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels from among the plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted, wherein each of the feedback channels is associated with at least one of a control channel of the plurality of sidelink control channels or a shared channel of the plurality of sidelink shared channel; and

a transmitter that performs simultaneous transmissions on the selected upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels,

wherein the processor associates, with resources of the plurality of sidelink feedback channels continuous in a frequency domain, a plurality of slots continuous in a direction of time in one subchannel on which reception of the plurality of sidelink control channels or the plurality of sidelink shared channels is performed, and

wherein the processor determines a maximum number of resources of the plurality of sidelink feedback channels that the terminal can transmit in a slot as UE capability.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the processor selects the upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels in descending order of priority levels assigned to the plurality of sidelink feedback channels.

3. A communication method executed by a terminal, the method comprising:

performing reception on at least one of a plurality of sidelink control channels and a plurality of sidelink shared channels;

selecting, upon detecting that a number of a plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted exceeds an upper limit number, the upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels from among the plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted, wherein each of the plurality of feedback channels is associated with at least one of a control channel of the plurality of sidelink control channels or a shared channel of the plurality of sidelink shared channels; and

performing simultaneous transmissions on the selected upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels,

wherein the selecting associates, with resources of the plurality of sidelink feedback channels continuous in a frequency domain, a plurality of slots continuous in a direction of time in one subchannel on which reception of the plurality of sidelink control channels or the plurality of sidelink shared channels is performed, and

wherein the terminal determines a maximum number of resources of the plurality of sidelink feedback channels that the terminal can transmit in a slot as UE capability.

4. A communication system comprising:

a terminal including:

a receiver that performs reception on at least one of a plurality of sidelink control channels or a plurality of sidelink shared channels;

a processor that selects, upon detecting that a number of a plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted exceeds an upper limit number, the upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels from among the plurality of sidelink feedback channels to be simultaneously transmitted, wherein each of the feedback channels is associated with at least one of a control channel of the plurality of sidelink control channels or a shared channel of the plurality of sidelink shared channel; and

a transmitter that performs simultaneous transmissions on the selected upper limit number of sidelink feedback channels,

wherein the processor associates, with resources of the plurality of sidelink feedback channels continuous in a frequency domain, a plurality of slots continuous in a direction of time in one subchannel on which reception of the plurality of sidelink control channels or the plurality of sidelink shared channels is performed, and

wherein the processor determines a maximum number of resources of the plurality of sidelink feedback channels that the terminal can transmit in a slot as UE capability; and

another terminal including:

a transmitter that performs transmission on at least one of the plurality of sidelink control channels or the plurality of sidelink shared channels; and

a receiver that performs reception on the sidelink feedback channels.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 3, 2021
From: YOSHIOKA, SHOHEI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, YANRU
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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