IP Library Granted Patent US 12,507,261
Granted Patent B2
US 12,507,261 · App. 18/140,968 · Granted Dec 23, 2025

Method and apparatus for transmitting SCI in sidelink communication

Inventor: Ui Hyun Hong (Hwaseong-si, KR)
Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company; Kia Corporation
H04W72/25H04L5/0051
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Patent No.
US 12,507,261
App. No.
18/140,968
Granted
Dec 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for transmitting SCI in sidelink communication may include the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information of the size of an SL subchannel set to a threshold value or higher for power saving of a receiving terminal; multiplexing a PSCCH and a first PSSCH DMRS in a frequency domain when the size of the SL subchannel is equal to or greater than the threshold value; and mapping second stage SCI to a symbol in which the first PSSCH DMRS is located.

Claims (24)

1 . A method of a transmitting user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving, from a base station, configuration information of a sidelink (SL) subchannel size set to a size equal to or greater than a threshold value to save power of a receiving UE;

multiplexing a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a frequency domain when the SL subchannel size is greater than or equal to the threshold value; and

mapping second-stage sidelink control information (SCI) to a symbol where the first PSSCH DMRS is located,

wherein a PSCCH size is set to a maximum value or less than the maximum value to save the power of the receiving UE.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the threshold value is 20 physical resource blocks (PRBs), and the SL subchannel size is greater than or equal to a PSCCH size.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein when the PSCCH size is set to be less than or equal to the maximum value, new first-stage SCI including only specific information elements is used.

4 . The method of claim 3 , further including receiving information allowing use of the new first-stage SCI from the base station.

5 . A method of a transmitting user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving, from a base station, configuration information of a sidelink (SL) subchannel size and configuration information of a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) size;

multiplexing a PSCCH and a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a frequency domain regardless of the PSCCH size when the SL subchannel size is less than a threshold value; and

mapping second-stage sidelink control information (SCI) to a symbol where the first PSSCH DMRS is located,

wherein the PSCCH size is set to a maximum value or less than the maximum value to save power of a receiving UE.

6 . The method of claim 5 , further including receiving, from the base station, information allowing multiplexing of the PSCCH and the first PSSCH DMRS in the frequency domain regardless of the PSCCH size when the SL subchannel size is less than the threshold value.

7 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the threshold value is 20 physical resource blocks (PRBs), and the SL subchannel size is greater than or equal to the PSCCH size.

8 . The method of claim 5 , wherein when the PSCCH size is set to be less than or equal to the maximum value, new first-stage SCI including only specific information elements is used, and information allowing use of the new first-stage SCI is received from the base station.

9 . A method of a transmitting user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

mapping first-stage sidelink control information (SCI) to one or more symbols;

mapping second-stage SCI to a preceding symbol of a symbol in which a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) is located; and

mapping the first PSSCH DMRS after the second-stage SCI in a time domain,

wherein the preceding symbol is included in the one or more symbols, the first-stage SCI is included in a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and a PSCCH size is set to a maximum value or less than the maximum value to save power of a receiving UE.

10 . The method of claim 9 , further including: receiving, from a base station, information allowing the second-stage SCI to be mapped to a front region within a slot regardless of a location of the first PSSCH DMRS.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the second-stage SCI is mapped to the front region within the slot, regardless of the location of the first PSSCH DMRS as well as a sidelink (SL) subchannel size and the PSCCH size.

12 . The method of claim 9 , further including: receiving, from the base station, configuration information of an SL subchannel size set to a maximum value or less than the maximum value to reduce a number of performing blind detections for the first-stage SCI.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 28, 2023
From: HONG, UI HYUN
To: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY; KIA CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
KR KR10-2021-0148004 · Nov 1, 2021 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation In Part PCTKR2021015589 · Nov 1, 2021
Provisional Application 63109307 · Nov 3, 2020
Related Publication 20230269756A1 · Aug 24, 2023
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