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US 12,316,462 · App. 17/762,265 · Granted May 27, 2025

Techniques for determining feedback timing capability in sidelink wireless communications

Inventors: Hui Guo (Beijing, CN); Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Fremont, CA); Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, NJ); Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego, CA); Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, NJ); Gabi Sarkis (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
H04L1/1887H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,316,462
App. No.
17/762,265
Granted
May 27, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Some aspects described herein relate to determining, by a transmitter user equipment (UE) in sidelink communications with a receiver UE, a feedback forwarding timing capability based at least in part on a first timing for receiving and processing feedback from the receiver UE, and receiving, from an access point and based on the feedback forwarding timing capability, at least an uplink resource grant for transmitting feedback for at least one of sidelink communications or downlink communications. Other aspects relate to determining, by a transmitter UE in sidelink communications with a receiver UE, a timing capability for the receiver UE to at least one of receive sidelink communications from the transmitter UE or report feedback for the sidelink communications to the transmitter UE.

Claims (46)

1. A method for wireless communication, comprising:

determining, by a transmitter user equipment (UE) in sidelink communications with a receiver UE, a feedback forwarding timing capability based at least in part on a period of time between sidelink feedback channel resources associated with a last time period of a sidelink feedback channel and a time when the transmitter UE can transmit feedback, received from the receiver UE over the sidelink feedback channel resources, to an access point; and

receiving, from the access point and based on the feedback forwarding timing capability, at least an uplink resource grant for transmitting feedback for at least one of sidelink communications or downlink communications.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the feedback forwarding timing capability corresponds to a default processing timing for multiple UEs.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting, to the access point and based on the uplink resource grant, the feedback from the receiver UE over an uplink channel.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising multiplexing, with the feedback from the receiver UE, feedback for a downlink channel received from the access point.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from the access point and based on the feedback forwarding timing capability, a downlink resource grant for receiving the downlink communications.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the feedback forwarding timing capability is further based at least in part on a second timing for at least one of receiving sidelink communications at the receiver UE or reporting the feedback for the sidelink communications by the receiver UE.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising determining the second timing of the receiver UE, and wherein indicating the feedback forwarding timing capability comprises indicating, to the access point, the second timing.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein determining the second timing comprises receiving, from the receiver UE, an indication of the second timing.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein determining the second timing comprises determining a default timing for the at least one of receiving sidelink communications at the receiver UE or reporting the feedback for the sidelink communications by the receiver UE.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining the default timing is based at least in part on at least one of a payload size or a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) associated with the sidelink communications for the receiver UE.

11. The method of claim 6 , wherein determining the feedback forwarding timing capability is further based at least in part on a third timing for multiplexing the feedback from the receiver UE with downlink feedback for downlink communications received from the access point.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising determining the third timing based at least in part on at least one of feedback codebook types or feedback handling and/or dropping rules defined for reporting the downlink feedback.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising indicating, to the access point, the feedback forwarding timing capability.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein indicating the feedback forwarding timing capability comprises transmitting an indication of the feedback forwarding timing capability using radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

15. A method for wireless communication, comprising:

determining, for a transmitter user equipment (UE) in sidelink communications with a receiver UE, a feedback forwarding timing capability based at least in part on a period of time between sidelink feedback channel resources associated with a last time period of a sidelink feedback channel and a time when the transmitter UE can transmit feedback received from the receiver UE over the sidelink feedback channel resources;

generating, based at least in part on the feedback forwarding timing capability, an uplink grant for the transmitter UE; and

transmitting, to the transmitter UE, the uplink grant.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the feedback forwarding timing capability corresponds to a default processing timing for multiple UEs.

17. The method of claim 15 , further comprising determining a second timing for at least one of receiving sidelink communications at the receiver UE or reporting the feedback for the sidelink communications by the receiver UE, wherein generating the uplink grant is further based at least in part on the second timing.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein determining the second timing comprises receiving an indication of the second timing from at least one of the transmitter UE or the receiver UE.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising determining a third timing for multiplexing, by the transmitter UE, the feedback from the receiver UE with downlink feedback for downlink communications transmitted to the transmitter UE based at least in part on at least one of feedback codebook types or feedback handling and/or dropping rules defined for reporting the downlink feedback, wherein generating the uplink grant is further based at least in part on the third timing.

20. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

a transceiver;

a memory configured to store instructions; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled with the memory and the transceiver, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

determine, by the apparatus as a transmitter user equipment (UE) in sidelink communications with a receiver UE, a feedback forwarding timing capability based at least in part on a period of time between sidelink feedback channel resources associated with a last time period of a sidelink feedback channel and a time when the transmitter UE can transmit feedback, received from the receiver UE over the sidelink feedback channel resources, to an access point; and

receive, from the access point and based on the feedback forwarding timing capability, at least an uplink resource grant for transmitting feedback for at least one of sidelink communications or downlink communications.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the feedback forwarding timing capability corresponds to a default processing timing for multiple UEs.

22. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to transmit, to the access point and based on the uplink resource grant, the feedback from the receiver UE over an uplink channel.

23. The apparatus of claim 22 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to multiplex, with the feedback from the receiver UE, feedback for a downlink channel received from the access point.

24. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to receive, from the access point and based on the feedback forwarding timing capability, a downlink resource grant for receiving the downlink communications.

25. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine the feedback forwarding timing capability further based at least in part on a second timing for at least one of receiving sidelink communications at the receiver UE or based on reporting the feedback for the sidelink communications by the receiver UE.

26. The apparatus of claim 25 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine the second timing of the receiver UE, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to indicate the feedback forwarding timing capability at least in part by indicating, to the access point, the second timing.

27. The apparatus of claim 26 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine the second timing at least in part by receiving, from the receiver UE, an indication of the second timing.

28. The apparatus of claim 26 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine the second timing at least in part by determining a default timing for the at least one of receiving sidelink communications at the receiver UE or reporting the feedback for the sidelink communications by the receiver UE.

29. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

a transceiver;

a memory configured to store instructions; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled with the memory and the transceiver, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

determine, for a transmitter user equipment (UE) in sidelink communications with a receiver UE, a feedback forwarding timing capability based at least in part on a period of time between sidelink feedback channel resources associated with a last time period of a sidelink feedback channel and a time when the transmitter UE can transmit feedback received from the receiver UE over the sidelink feedback channel resources;

generate, based at least in part on the feedback forwarding timing capability, an uplink grant for the transmitter UE; and

transmit, to the transmitter UE, the uplink grant.

30. The apparatus of claim 29 , wherein the feedback forwarding timing capability corresponds to a default processing timing for multiple UEs.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2022
From: GUO, HUI; BAGHEL, SUDHIR KUMAR; GULATI, KAPIL; WU, SHUANSHUAN; NGUYEN, TIEN VIET; SARKIS, GABI
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 060038/0418 →
Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/CN2019/113245 · Oct 25, 2019 · international
Continuity (1)
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