Granted Patent B2

US 12,381,689 · App. 17/855,728 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Inventors: Qing Li (Princeton Junction, NJ); Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, NJ); Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, PA); Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego, CA); Gabi Sarkis (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04L5/0053H04W16/14H04W92/18

Abstract

Claims (63)

1. An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors; and

instructions stored in the one or more memories and executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

detect a first sidelink message on an unlicensed channel, the first sidelink message sharing a common sidelink feedback symbol;

map a first set of sidelink feedback resources for a first interlace of one or more interlaces for each sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message according to an interlace mapping rule associated with sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol;

determine whether to allocate a second set of sidelink feedback resources for a second interlace of the one or more interlaces for sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message, wherein the second interlace is a replica of the first interlace associated with the first sidelink message, and wherein the first sidelink message is addressed to the UE;

map the replica of the first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message to a second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol according to a replica mapping rule;

transmit, during the common sidelink feedback symbol, sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the first interlace; and

transmit, during the common sidelink feedback symbol, the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the replica of the first interlace based at least in part on the determining.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the replica mapping rule comprises an offset value indicating a quantity of frequency resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol between the first set of sidelink feedback resources and the second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first interlace and the replica of the first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message satisfy a channel occupancy threshold for the common sidelink feedback symbol on the unlicensed channel.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

refrain from transmitting the replica of the first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol based at least in part on the determining, wherein the second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol is occupied by the additional first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the second sidelink message.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the sidelink feedback satisfies a channel occupancy threshold for the common sidelink feedback symbol on the unlicensed channel.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

receive configuration information comprising parameters for at least the interlace mapping rule, a replica mapping rule, or both, wherein the mapping is based at least in part on the parameters.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

monitor the unlicensed channel for the first sidelink message and the second sidelink message, wherein the detecting is based at least in part on the monitoring, and wherein at least one of the first sidelink message and the second sidelink message are addressed to one or more additional UEs.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the mapping is based at least in part on the interlace mapping rule and a cast type of the first sidelink message.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the instructions to transmit the sidelink feedback are executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

transmit a sidelink feedback message associated with the first sidelink message via a first set of a plurality of physical resource blocks for the first interlace for sidelink feedback, the sidelink feedback message comprising an acknowledgement message or a negative acknowledgement message, wherein the first sidelink message comprises a unicast cast type addressed to the UE.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the instructions to transmit the sidelink feedback are executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

transmit a sidelink feedback message associated with the first sidelink message via a first set of a plurality of physical resource blocks for the first interlace for sidelink feedback, the sidelink feedback message comprising a negative acknowledgement message indicating that the UE failed to decode the first sidelink message, wherein the first sidelink message comprises a multicast cast type addressed to a plurality of UEs comprising the UE, and wherein the first set of the plurality of physical resource block is allocated to the plurality of UEs, according to the interlace mapping rule, for transmitting the sidelink feedback.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the instructions to transmit the sidelink feedback are executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:

transmit a sidelink feedback message associated with the first sidelink message via a first set of a plurality of physical resource blocks for the first interlace for sidelink feedback, the sidelink feedback message comprising an acknowledgement message or a negative acknowledgement message, wherein the first sidelink message comprises a multicast cast type addressed to a plurality of UEs comprising the UE, and wherein the first set of the plurality of physical resource blocks of the first interlace is allocated to each UE of the plurality of UEs, according to the interlace mapping rule, for transmitting the sidelink feedback.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first interlace for sidelink feedback comprises a plurality of physical resource blocks that are contiguous in frequency.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first interlace for sidelink feedback comprises a plurality of physical resource blocks that are not contiguous in frequency.

14. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first interlace for sidelink feedback comprises a plurality of respective physical resource blocks that are associated with a single cyclic shift.

15. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first interlace for sidelink feedback comprises a plurality of respective physical resource blocks that are associated with a plurality of cyclic shifts.

16. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

detecting a first sidelink message on an unlicensed channel, the first sidelink message sharing a common sidelink feedback symbol;

mapping a first set of sidelink feedback resources for a first interlace of one or more interlaces for each sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message according to an interlace mapping rule associated with sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol;

determining whether to allocate a second set of sidelink feedback resources for a second interlace of the one or more interlaces for sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message, wherein the second interlace is a replica of the first interlace associated with the first sidelink message;

mapping the replica of the first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message to a second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol according to a replica mapping rule;

transmitting, during the common sidelink feedback symbol, sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the first interlace; and

transmitting, during the common sidelink feedback symbol, the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the replica of the first interlace based at least in part on the determining.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the replica mapping rule comprises an offset value indicating a quantity of frequency resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol between the first set of sidelink feedback resources and the second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first interlace and the replica of the first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message satisfy a channel occupancy threshold for the common sidelink feedback symbol on the unlicensed channel.

19. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

refraining from transmitting the replica of the first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol based at least in part on the determining, wherein the second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol is occupied by the additional first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the second sidelink message.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the sidelink feedback satisfies a channel occupancy threshold for the common sidelink feedback symbol on the unlicensed channel.

21. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

receiving configuration information comprising parameters for at least the interlace mapping rule, a replica mapping rule, or both, wherein the mapping is based at least in part on the parameters.

22. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

monitoring the unlicensed channel for the first sidelink message and the second sidelink message, wherein the detecting is based at least in part on the monitoring, and wherein at least one of the first sidelink message and the second sidelink message are addressed to one or more additional UEs.

23. The method of claim 16 , wherein the mapping is based at least in part on the interlace mapping rule and a cast type of the first sidelink message.

24. The method of claim 23 , further comprising:

transmitting a sidelink feedback message associated with the first sidelink message via a first set of a plurality of physical resource blocks for the first interlace for sidelink feedback, the sidelink feedback message comprising an acknowledgement message or a negative acknowledgement message, wherein the first sidelink message comprises a unicast cast type addressed to the UE.

25. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communications, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to:

detect a first sidelink message on an unlicensed channel, the first sidelink message sharing a common sidelink feedback symbol;

map a first set of sidelink feedback resources for a first interlace of one or more interlaces for each sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message according to an interlace mapping rule associated with sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol;

determine whether to allocate a second set of sidelink feedback resources for a second interlace of the one or more interlaces for sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message, wherein the second interlace is a replica of the first interlace associated with the first sidelink message, and wherein the first sidelink message is addressed to a UE;

map the replica of the first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message to a second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol according to a replica mapping rule;

transmit, during the common sidelink feedback symbol, sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the first interlace; and

transmit, during the common sidelink feedback symbol, the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the replica of the first interlace based at least in part on the determining.

26. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

means for detecting a first sidelink message on an unlicensed channel, the first sidelink message sharing a common sidelink feedback symbol;

means for mapping a first set of sidelink feedback resources for a first interlace of one or more interlaces for each sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message according to an interlace mapping rule associated with sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol;

means for determining whether to allocate a second set of sidelink feedback resources for a second interlace of the one or more interlaces for sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message of the one or more sidelink messages based at least in part on whether the second interlace overlaps with an additional first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with a second sidelink message, wherein the second interlace is a replica of the first interlace associated with the first sidelink message;

means for mapping the replica of the first interlace for the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message to a second set of sidelink feedback resources of the common sidelink feedback symbol according to a replica mapping rule;

means for transmitting, during the common sidelink feedback symbol, sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the first interlace; and

means for transmitting, during the common sidelink feedback symbol, the sidelink feedback associated with the first sidelink message via the replica of the first interlace based at least in part on the determining.

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