Granted Patent B2

US 12,732,967 · App. 18/246,774 · Granted Sep 8, 2026

Inventors: Yu Cai (Shenzhen, CN); Haibo Xu (Beijing, CN)

Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

H04W72/02H04W76/28

Abstract

Claims (59)

1 . A method, applied to a first terminal, the method comprising:

sending, by a medium access control entity of the first terminal, first information to a physical layer of the first terminal, wherein the first information indicates a sidelink discontinuous reception-active time of a second terminal;

sending, by the medium access control entity, second information to the physical layer, wherein the second information indicates a retransmission end time of data or indicates a remaining retransmission time of the data;

determining, by the physical layer of the first terminal based on the first information and the second information, one or more sidelink resources, wherein the one or more sidelink resources comprise a first sidelink resource located in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time of the second terminal; and

sending the data to the second terminal on the first sidelink resource in the one or more sidelink resources.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more sidelink resources comprises:

determining, by the physical layer of the first terminal, the one or more sidelink resources from a candidate resource set; and

reporting, by the physical layer, the one or more sidelink resources to the medium access control entity of the first terminal; and

wherein the method further comprises:

selecting, by the medium access control entity from the one or more sidelink resources, the first sidelink resource located in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

selecting, from the one or more sidelink resources, a second sidelink resource within a first time, wherein the first time comprises the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time and a running time of a sidelink retransmission timer assumed according to the first sidelink resource; and

sending data to the second terminal on the second sidelink resource.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein sending, by the medium access control entity, the first information to the physical layer comprises:

when the remaining time of the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time is less than or equal to a remaining packet delay budget, sending, by the medium access control entity, the first information to the physical layer.

5 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the first information further comprises information indicating a start time of the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein when a time unit 1 is earlier than the start time of the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time, the medium access control entity of the first terminal sends, to the physical layer of the first terminal, the first information indicating the start time of the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time, wherein the time unit 1 is a moment at which the physical layer of the first terminal determines to sense sidelink resources.

7 . The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:

determining the retransmission end time of the data or the remaining retransmission time of the data; and

determining, based on the retransmission end time or the remaining retransmission time, an end moment corresponding to the candidate resource set, wherein the end moment corresponding to the candidate resource set is earlier than or equal to the retransmission end time.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein determining the retransmission end time of the data or the remaining retransmission time of the data comprises:

determining, by the physical layer, the retransmission end time or the remaining retransmission time based on the second information.

9 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein when a remaining packet delay budget is greater than or equal to the remaining retransmission time, the medium access control entity provides one or more of the retransmission end time or the remaining retransmission time for the physical layer, or the medium access control entity provides a minimum value in the remaining packet delay budget and the retransmission end time for the physical layer.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a quantity of sidelink resources, located in a second time period in the one or more sidelink resources, is greater than or equal to a second threshold; and

wherein the second time period is determined based on an end moment of the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time and the end moment corresponding to a candidate resource set.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the first sidelink resource is a sidelink resource used to initially transmit the data, and the method further comprises:

determining, by the first terminal, a second sidelink resource used to retransmit the data, wherein the second sidelink resource is located in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time or a third time period, and the third time period is determined based on the first sidelink resource.

12 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein:

a time interval between the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource is greater than or equal to a minimum time interval; or

when a resource pool in which the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource are located is configured with a physical sidelink feedback control channel resource, a time interval between the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource is greater than or equal to a minimum time interval.

13 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein when there is no sidelink resource used to transmit the data for a first time, or no sidelink resource used to retransmit the data in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time, the first terminal triggers a sidelink resource selection/reselection process.

14 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein

when the sidelink resource used to initially transmit the data is not located in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time, the first sidelink resource is a sidelink resource used to retransmit the data; and

wherein the method further comprises:

when the sidelink resource used to initially transmit the data is not located in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time, stopping, by the first terminal, sending the data on a second sidelink resource used to retransmit the data.

15 . A terminal, comprising:

at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is coupled to a memory, and the at least one processor is configured to run instructions stored in the memory to perform the following:

sending, by a medium access control entity of the terminal, first information to a physical layer of the terminal, wherein the first information indicates a sidelink discontinuous reception-active time of a second terminal;

sending, by the medium access control entity, second information to the physical layer, wherein the second information indicates a retransmission end time of data or indicates a remaining retransmission time of the data;

determining, by the physical layer based on the first information and the second information, one or more sidelink resources, wherein the one or more sidelink resources comprise a first sidelink resource located in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time of the second terminal; and

sending the data to the second terminal on the first sidelink resource in the one or more sidelink resources.

16 . The terminal according to claim 15 , wherein determining the one or more sidelink resources comprises:

determining, by the physical layer of the terminal based on the first information and the second information, the one or more sidelink resources from a candidate resource set; and

reporting, by the physical layer, the one or more sidelink resources to the medium access control entity of the terminal; and

wherein the at least one processor is configured to run instructions stored in the memory to perform the following:

selecting, by the medium access control entity from the one or more sidelink resources, the first sidelink resource located in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time.

17 . The terminal according to claim 15 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to run instructions stored in the memory to perform the following:

selecting, from the one or more sidelink resources, a second sidelink resource within a first time, wherein the first time comprises the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time and a running time of a sidelink retransmission timer assumed according to the first sidelink resource; and

sending data to the second terminal on the second sidelink resource.

18 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein at least one processor is coupled to a memory, and the at least one processor is configured to run instructions stored in the memory to perform the following:

sending, by a medium access control entity of a first terminal, first information to a physical layer of the first terminal, wherein the first information indicates a sidelink discontinuous reception-active time of a second terminal;

sending, by the medium access control entity, second information to the physical layer, wherein the second information indicates a retransmission end time of data or indicates a remaining retransmission time of the data;

determining, by the physical layer of the first terminal, one or more sidelink resources, wherein the one or more sidelink resources comprise a first sidelink resource located in the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time of the second terminal; and

sending the data to the second terminal on the first sidelink resource in the one or more sidelink resources.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 18 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to run the instructions stored in the memory to further perform the following:

selecting, from the one or more sidelink resources, a second sidelink resource within a first time, wherein the first time comprises the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time and a running time of a sidelink retransmission timer assumed according to the first sidelink resource; and

sending data to the second terminal on the second sidelink resource.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 18 , wherein sending, by the medium access control entity, the first information to the physical layer comprises:

when the remaining time of the sidelink discontinuous reception-active time is less than or equal to a remaining packet delay budget, sending, by the medium access control entity, the first information to the physical layer.

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