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Granted Patent B2
US 12,323,829 · App. 17/759,844 · Granted Jun 3, 2025

Apparatus and method for controlling sidelink auxiliary carrier in wireless communication system

Inventors: Hyunjeong Kang (Suwon-si, KR); Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, KR); Sangkyu Baek (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H04W24/04H04W76/19
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Patent No.
US 12,323,829
App. No.
17/759,844
Granted
Jun 3, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a first terminal for performing unicast communication between terminals in a wireless communication system. The first terminal may be configured to: transmit a packet to a second terminal through a first sidelink carrier; determine a failure of the first sidelink carrier based on at least one of a number of times of retransmission of the transmitted packet, a number of times of reception of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) negative acknowledgement (NACK) or discontinuous transmission (DTX) for the transmitted packet, or a number of times of continuous out of synch (OOS) for the first sidelink carrier; and determine whether to perform a radio link failure (RLF) handling procedure or whether to perform a carrier failure handling procedure, based on a result of the determining of the failure and the first sidelink carrier, wherein the carrier failure handling procedure may be performed based on at least one of a connection state between the first terminal and a base station or a need for multi-carrier transmission.

Claims (30)

1. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

performing a sidelink transmission associated with a plurality of sidelink carriers;

identifying whether all of the plurality of sidelink carriers are unavailable, based on a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operation;

in case that all of the plurality of sidelink carriers are unavailable, identifying a detection of a sidelink radio link failure (RLF); and

transmitting, to a base station, information associated with the sidelink RLF.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

in case that at least one of the plurality of sidelink carriers is available and that a sidelink carrier failure occurs in a sidelink carrier, transmitting, to the base station, information associated with the sidelink carrier failure.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the information associated with the sidelink carrier failure includes a parameter indicating a destination identity for the sidelink carrier failure and a parameter indicating the sidelink carrier associated with the sidelink carrier failure.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

in case that at least one of the plurality of sidelink carriers is available and that a sidelink carrier failure occurs in a sidelink carrier, performing a carrier selection or reselection procedure.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the carrier selection or reselection procedure is performed based on configuration information for a carrier selection or reselection.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the configuration information for the carrier selection or reselection is received from the base station.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the configuration information for the carrier selection or reselection includes information associated with a logical channel and information associated with a channel busy ratio (CBR).

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the performing of the carrier selection or reselection procedure comprises:

selecting a carrier with a lowest CBR, from among one or more candidate carriers for the carrier selection or reselection.

9. The method of claim 4 , wherein the carrier selection or reselection procedure is associated with multiple carrier transmission related capability information, for unicast.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the terminal is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state.

11. A terminal in a wireless communication system, the terminal comprising:

a transceiver; and

at least one processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to:

perform a sidelink transmission associated with a plurality of sidelink carriers;

identify whether all of the plurality of sidelink carriers are unavailable, based on a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operation;

in case that all of the plurality of sidelink carriers are unavailable, identify a detection of a sidelink radio link failure (RLF); and

transmit, to a base station, information associated with the sidelink RLF.

12. The terminal of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

in case that at least one of the plurality of sidelink carriers is available and that a sidelink carrier failure occurs in a sidelink carrier, transmit, to the base station, information associated with the sidelink carrier failure.

13. The terminal of claim 12 , wherein the information associated with the sidelink carrier failure includes a parameter indicating a destination identity for the sidelink carrier failure and a parameter indicating the sidelink carrier associated with the sidelink carrier failure.

14. The terminal of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

in case that at least one of the plurality of sidelink carriers is available and that a sidelink carrier failure occurs in a sidelink carrier, perform a carrier selection or reselection procedure.

15. The terminal of claim 14 , wherein the carrier selection or reselection procedure is performed based on configuration information for a carrier selection or reselection.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2022
From: KANG, HYUNJEONG; AGIWAL, ANIL; BAEK, SANGKYU
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 060677/0076 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0011928 · Jan 31, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230128455A1 · Apr 27, 2023
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