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US 12,563,625 · App. 18/140,411 · Granted Feb 24, 2026

Method and device for link recovery in sidelink relay communication

Inventor: Gene Back Hahn (Hwaseong-si, KR)
Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company; Kia Corporation
H04W76/19H04L1/1812H04W8/005
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Patent No.
US 12,563,625
App. No.
18/140,411
Granted
Feb 24, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a method and a device for link recovery in a sidelink relay communication, an operating method of a transmission terminal includes: performing a first SL relay communication with a reception terminal through a first relay terminal; when a preconfigured condition is satisfied, declaring an RLF for a sidelink in which the first SL relay communication is performed; establishing a connection with a second relay terminal; and performing a second SL relay communication with the reception terminal through the second relay terminal.

Claims (19)

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

performing first sidelink (SL) relay communication with a receiving UE through a first relay UE;

declaring a radio link failure (RLF) for a sidelink where the first SL relay communication is performed based on a number of reception failures of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) for data transmitted through the first relay UE is greater than or equal to a threshold value;

configuring a connection with a second relay UE; and

performing second SL relay communication with the receiving UE through the second relay UE.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further including receiving, from a base station, a first message including information indicating a preconfigured condition used for declaring the RLF.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the first message further includes information used to determine whether the preconfigured condition is satisfied.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a preconfigured condition used for declaring the RLF is independently configured for each UE type, and the UE type indicates a transmitting UE, a relay UE, or a receiving UE.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuring of the connection with the second relay UE includes:

transmitting a discovery message in a broadcast scheme; and

configuring a connection with the second relay UE determined based on the discovery message.

6 . The method of claim 5 , further including transmitting, to the receiving UE, information of the second relay UE connected to the transmitting UE through the second relay UE.

7 . A method of a relay user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

performing sidelink (SL) relay communication between a transmitting UE and a receiving UE;

determining that a radio link failure (RLF) for a sidelink where first SL relay communication is performed has occurred based on a number of reception failures of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) for data of the transmitting UE transmitted from the relay UE to the receiving UE is greater than or equal to a threshold value; and

transmitting a second message indicating the occurrence of the RLF.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further including receiving, from a base station, a first message including information indicating a preconfigured condition used for declaring the RLF, wherein the first message further includes information to be used for determining whether the preconfigured condition is satisfied.

9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein a preconfigured condition used for declaring the RLF is independently configured for each UE type, and the UE type indicates a transmitting UE, the relay UE, or the receiving UE.

10 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the second message further includes information of a sidelink in which the RLF has occurred.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 28, 2023
From: HAHN, GENE BACK
To: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY; KIA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063474/0256 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2021-0145150 · Oct 28, 2021 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation In Part PCTKR2021015336 · Oct 28, 2021
Provisional Application 63107135 · Oct 29, 2020
Related Publication 20230269812A1 · Aug 24, 2023
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