Patent Application
20230354304
Wireless communications systems are widely deployed to provide various types of communication content such as voice, video, packet data, messaging, broadcast, and so on. These systems may be capable of supporting communication with multiple users by sharing the available system resources (e.g., time, frequency, and power). A wireless multiple-access communications system may include a number of base stations (BSs), each simultaneously supporting communications for multiple communication devices, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE).
To meet the growing demands for expanded mobile broadband connectivity, wireless communication technologies are advancing from the long term evolution (LTE) technology to a next generation new radio (NR) technology, which may be referred to as 5th Generation (5G). For example, NR is designed to provide a lower latency, a higher bandwidth or a higher throughput, and a higher reliability than LTE. NR is designed to operate over a wide array of spectrum bands, for example, from low-frequency bands below about 1 gigahertz (GHz) and mid-frequency bands from about 1 GHz to about 6 GHz, to high-frequency bands such as millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. NR is also designed to operate across different spectrum types, from licensed spectrum to unlicensed and shared spectrum. Spectrum sharing enables operators to opportunistically aggregate spectrums to dynamically support high-bandwidth services. Spectrum sharing can extend the benefit of NR technologies to operating entities that may not have access to a licensed spectrum.
In a wireless communication network, a BS may communicate with a UE in an uplink direction and a downlink direction. Sidelink was introduced in LTE to allow a UE to send data to another UE without tunneling through the BS and/or an associated core network. The LTE sidelink technology had been extended to provision for device-to-device (D2D) communications, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, and/or cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications. Similarly, NR may be extended to support sidelink communications, D2D communications, V2X communications, and/or C-V2X over licensed bands and/or unlicensed bands.
The following summarizes some aspects of the present disclosure to provide a basic understanding of the discussed technology. This summary is not an extensive overview of all contemplated features of the disclosure and is intended neither to identify key or critical elements of all aspects of the disclosure nor to delineate the scope of any or all aspects of the disclosure. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one or more aspects of the disclosure in summary form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
According to some aspects of the present disclosure, a method of wireless communication performed by a first wireless communication device includes: receiving, in first sidelink (SL) resources of a shared frequency band comprising a first interlace of resource blocks (RBs) within one or more first RB-sets, a first SL communication in a first slot and a second SL communication in a second slot; and transmitting, in second SL resources of the shared frequency band comprising the one or more first RB-sets and a second interlace of RBs, a first SL feedback communication for the first SL communication and a second SL feedback communication for the second SL communication, wherein the transmitting the first SL feedback communication and the second SL feedback communication is based on a mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication to the second interlace of RBs in the one or more first RB-sets.
According to some aspects of the present disclosure, a first wireless communication device comprises: a memory; a transceiver; and a processor in communication with the memory and the transceiver. The first wireless communication device may be configured to: receive, in first sidelink (SL) resources of a shared frequency band comprising a first interlace of resource blocks (RBs) within one or more first RB-sets, a first SL communication in a first slot and a second SL communication in a second slot; and transmit, in second SL resources of the shared frequency band comprising the one or more first RB-sets and a second interlace of RBs, a first SL feedback communication for the first SL communication and a second SL feedback communication for the second SL communication, wherein the transmitting the first SL feedback communication and the second SL feedback communication is based on a mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication to the second interlace of RBs in the one or more first RB-sets.
According to some aspects of the present disclosure, a non-transitory, computer-readable medium has program code recorded thereon. The program code comprises instructions executable by a processor of a first wireless communication device to cause the first wireless communication device to: receive, in first sidelink (SL) resources of a shared frequency band comprising a first interlace of resource blocks (RBs) within one or more first RB-sets, a first SL communication in a first slot and a second SL communication in a second slot; and transmit, in second SL resources of the shared frequency band comprising the one or more first RB-sets and a second interlace of RBs, a first SL feedback communication for the first SL communication and a second SL feedback communication for the second SL communication, wherein the transmitting the first SL feedback communication and the second SL feedback communication is based on a mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication to the second interlace of RBs in the one or more first RB-sets.
According to some aspects of the present disclosure, a first wireless communication device includes: means for receiving, in first sidelink (SL) resources of a shared frequency band comprising a first interlace of resource blocks (RBs) within one or more first RB-sets, a first SL communication in a first slot and a second SL communication in a second slot; and means for transmitting, in second SL resources of the shared frequency band comprising the one or more first RB-sets and a second interlace of RBs, a first SL feedback communication for the first SL communication and a second SL feedback communication for the second SL communication, wherein the means for transmitting the first SL feedback communication and the second SL feedback communication is based on a mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication to the second interlace of RBs in the one or more first RB-sets.
Other aspects, features, and embodiments of the present invention will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art, upon reviewing the following description of specific, exemplary embodiments of the present invention in conjunction with the accompanying figures. While features of the present invention may be discussed relative to certain embodiments and figures below, all embodiments of the present invention can include one or more of the advantageous features discussed herein. In other words, while one or more embodiments may be discussed as having certain advantageous features, one or more of such features may also be used in accordance with the various embodiments of the invention discussed herein. In similar fashion, while exemplary embodiments may be discussed below as device, system, or method embodiments it should be understood that such exemplary embodiments can be implemented in various devices, systems, and methods.
The detailed description set forth below, in connection with the appended drawings, is intended as a description of various configurations and is not intended to represent the only configurations in which the concepts described herein may be practiced. The detailed description includes specific details for the purpose of providing a thorough understanding of the various concepts. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that these concepts may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known structures and components are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid obscuring such concepts.
This disclosure relates generally to wireless communications systems, also referred to as wireless communications networks. In various embodiments, the techniques and apparatus may be used for wireless communication networks such as code division multiple access (CDMA) networks, time division multiple access (TDMA) networks, frequency division multiple access (FDMA) networks, orthogonal FDMA (OFDMA) networks, single-carrier FDMA (SC-FDMA) networks, LTE networks, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks, 5th Generation (5G) or new radio (NR) networks, as well as other communications networks. As described herein, the terms “networks” and “systems” may be used interchangeably.
An OFDMA network may implement a radio technology such as evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, flash-OFDM and the like. UTRA, E-UTRA, and GSM are part of universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS). In particular, long term evolution (LTE) is a release of UMTS that uses E-UTRA. UTRA, E-UTRA, GSM, UMTS and LTE are described in documents provided from an organization named “3rd Generation Partnership Project” (3GPP), and cdma2000 is described in documents from an organization named “3rd Generation Partnership Project 2” (3GPP2). These various radio technologies and standards are known or are being developed. For example, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations that aims to define a globally applicable third generation (3G) mobile phone specification. 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) is a 3GPP project which was aimed at improving the UMTS mobile phone standard. The 3GPP may define specifications for the next generation of mobile networks, mobile systems, and mobile devices. The present disclosure is concerned with the evolution of wireless technologies from LTE, 4G, 5G, NR, and beyond with shared access to wireless spectrum between networks using a collection of new and different radio access technologies or radio air interfaces.
In particular, 5G networks contemplate diverse deployments, diverse spectrum, and diverse services and devices that may be implemented using an OFDM-based unified, air interface. In order to achieve these goals, further enhancements to LTE and LTE-A are considered in addition to development of the new radio technology for 5G NR networks. The 5G NR will be capable of scaling to provide coverage (1) to a massive Internet of things (IoTs) with a ULtra-high density (e.g., ˜1M nodes/km2), ultra-low complexity (e.g., ˜10s of bits/sec), ultra-low energy (e.g., ˜10+ years of battery life), and deep coverage with the capability to reach challenging locations; (2) including mission-critical control with strong security to safeguard sensitive personal, financial, or classified information, ultra-high reliability (e.g., ˜99.9999% reliability), ultra-low latency (e.g., ˜1 ms), and users with wide ranges of mobility or lack thereof; and (3) with enhanced mobile broadband including extreme high capacity (e.g., ˜10 Tbps/km2), extreme data rates (e.g., multi-Gbps rate, 100+ Mbps user experienced rates), and deep awareness with advanced discovery and optimizations.
The 5G NR may be implemented to use optimized OFDM-based waveforms with scalable numerology and transmission time interval (TTI); having a common, flexible framework to efficiently multiplex services and features with a dynamic, low-latency time division duplex (TDD)/frequency division duplex (FDD) design; and with advanced wireless technologies, such as massive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO), robust millimeter wave (mmWave) transmissions, advanced channel coding, and device-centric mobility. Scalability of the numerology in 5G NR, with scaling of subcarrier spacing, may efficiently address operating diverse services across diverse spectrum and diverse deployments. For example, in various outdoor and macro coverage deployments of less than 3 GHz FDD/TDD implementations, subcarrier spacing may occur with 15 kHz, for example over 5, 10, 20 MHz, and the like bandwidth (BW). For other various outdoor and small cell coverage deployments of TDD greater than 3 GHz, subcarrier spacing may occur with 30 kHz over 80/100 MHz BW. For other various indoor wideband implementations, using a TDD over the unlicensed portion of the 5 GHz band, the subcarrier spacing may occur with 60 kHz over a 160 MHz BW. Finally, for various deployments transmitting with mmWave components at a TDD of 28 GHz, subcarrier spacing may occur with 120 kHz over a 500 MHz BW.
The scalable numerology of the 5G NR facilitates scalable TTI for diverse latency and quality of service (QoS) requirements. For example, shorter TTI may be used for low latency and high reliability, while longer TTI may be used for higher spectral efficiency. The efficient multiplexing of long and short TTIs to allow transmissions to start on symbol boundaries. 5G NR also contemplates a self-contained integrated subframe design with UL/downlink scheduling information, data, and acknowledgement in the same subframe. The self-contained integrated subframe supports communications in unlicensed or contention-based shared spectrum, adaptive UL/downlink that may be flexibly configured on a per-cell basis to dynamically switch between UL and downlink to meet the current traffic needs.
Various other aspects and features of the disclosure are further described below. It should be apparent that the teachings herein may be embodied in a wide variety of forms and that any specific structure, function, or both being disclosed herein is merely representative and not limiting. Based on the teachings herein one of an ordinary level of skill in the art should appreciate that an aspect disclosed herein may be implemented independently of any other aspects and that two or more of these aspects may be combined in various ways. For example, an apparatus may be implemented or a method may be practiced using any number of the aspects set forth herein. In addition, such an apparatus may be implemented or such a method may be practiced using other structure, functionality, or structure and functionality in addition to or other than one or more of the aspects set forth herein. For example, a method may be implemented as part of a system, device, apparatus, and/or as instructions stored on a computer readable medium for execution on a processor or computer. Furthermore, an aspect may comprise at least one element of a claim.
The present application describes mechanisms for sidelink communications in a shared radio frequency band using frequency-interlaced waveforms. The shared radio frequency band may be part of a shared spectrum or an unlicensed spectrum. For example, a BS may configure a first UE with a frequency interlace resource pool for sidelink communications between the first UE and the second UE. The frequency interlace resource pool may include a plurality of frequency domain physical resource block (PRB) interlaces in the shared radio frequency band. PRBs may also be referred to as resource blocks (RBs) for the purposes of the present disclosure. Each frequency domain PRB interlace may include a set of PRBs uniformly spaced in the shared radio frequency band. Further, the frequency interlace resource pool may include or be associated with one or more RB-sets. In some aspects, an RB-set may refer to the available RBs in a LBT bandwidth. Each interlace may be associated with or located within at least one RB-set. In some aspects, each RB-set includes a plurality of interlaces of PRBs.
The sidelink communications may include a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The PSSCH may carry data and the PSCCH may carry control information including transmission parameters used for transmitting the data in the PSSCH. The BS may configure the first UE to multiplex PSSCH and PSCCH on the same frequency interlace using frequency-division-multiplexing (FDM) or time-division-multiplexing (TDM). In response to receiving a sidelink communication including PSSCH, for example, the second UE may be configured with sidelink feedback resources for communicating an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement that the PSSCH was received. For example, the second UE may be configured with physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources for communicating the SL feedback communication. In some aspects, the PSFCH communication may span about one OFDM symbol. In some other aspects, the PSFCH communication may span more than one OFDM symbol. In some aspects, the PSFCH communication may include at least one symbol for automatic gain control (AGC).
In some aspects, the PSFCH communication may carry HARQ ACK/NACK feedbacks. As described above, HARQ techniques may be applied to improve communication reliability. In this regard, the first UE and the second UE may communicate PSSCH data (e.g., the PSSCH communications) using HARQ and communicate HARQ ACK/NACK feedback using an assigned frequency interlace. For instance, the first UE may transmit PSSCH data to the second UE over a sidelink. The PSSCH data packet may be transmitted in the form of a TB. If the second UE receives PSSCH data successfully, the second UE may transmit a HARQ ACK (in the PSFCH communication) to the first UE using the at least one assigned frequency interlace. Conversely, if the second UE fails to receive the PSSCH data successfully, the second UE may transmit a HARQ NACK (in the PSFCH communication) to the first UE using the assigned frequency interlace. Upon receiving a HARQ NACK from the second UE, the first UE may retransmit the PSSCH data. Similarly, the second UE may transmit PSSCH data to the first UE using similar HARQ mechanisms. In some aspects, the HARQ ACK/NACK transmission may use one waveform sequence to indicate an ACK and another waveform sequence to indicate a NACK.
According to some aspects of the present disclosure, the sidelink feedback resources may include, similarly to the PSCCH and PSSCH resources, one or more RB-sets and one or more PRB interlaces within each of the one or more RB-sets. The second UE may be configured to map one or more of the PSSCH resources to one or more of the SL feedback resources. For example, the second UE may be configured to map a PSSCH resource in a first RB-set and in a first PSSCH interlace to a first PSFCH interlace also in the first RB-set. In another aspect, the second UE may be configured to map a PSSCH resource in a first plurality of RB-sets and in a first PSSCH interlace to a first PSFCH interlace also in the first plurality of RB-sets. In some aspects, the mapping may be a one-to-one mapping between PSSCH RB-set(s), interlace(s), and/or slots and the PSFCH RB-set(s), interlace(s), and/or cyclic shift (CS) pairs. In some aspects, the PSFCH RB-sets may be the same as the PSSCH RB-sets. In other words, a single set of one or more RB-sets may be used for both PSSCH communications and PSFCH communications. In some aspects, a plurality of PSSCH communications (e.g., PSSCH TBs) are received at the first UE, and the first UE may map each PSSCH communication to at least one CS pair based on the slot index of the PSSCH communication. In another aspect, the second UE may be configured to hash within a CS pair set based on an identifier of the first UE and/or on a groupcast identifier.
Aspects of the present disclosure can provide several benefits. For example, the use of frequency interlaced waveforms for sidelink transmission may allow the sidelink transmission to meet a certain bandwidth occupancy requirement (e.g., a BW occupancy requirement of about 80%) of the shared radio frequency band. Additionally, the use of the frequency interlaced waveforms may allow the sidelink transmission to be transmitted at an increased power while meeting a certain maximum allowable power spectral density (PSD) of the shared radio frequency band. Further, the use of an unlicensed spectrum for sidelink communication can offload traffic from licensed spectrum. The RB-set-based PSFCH mapping mechanisms described herein also allow for an efficient mapping of sidelink feedback communications while meeting the bandwidth occupancy requirement described above.
A BS 105 may provide communication coverage for a macro cell or a small cell, such as a pico cell or a femto cell, and/or other types of cell. A macro cell generally covers a relatively large geographic area (e.g., several kilometers in radius) and may allow unrestricted access by UEs with service subscriptions with the network provider. A small cell, such as a pico cell, would generally cover a relatively smaller geographic area and may allow unrestricted access by UEs with service subscriptions with the network provider. A small cell, such as a femto cell, would also generally cover a relatively small geographic area (e.g., a home) and, in addition to unrestricted access, may also provide restricted access by UEs having an association with the femto cell (e.g., UEs in a closed subscriber group (CSG), UEs for users in the home, and the like). A BS for a macro cell may be referred to as a macro BS. A BS for a small cell may be referred to as a small cell BS, a pico BS, a femto BS or a home BS. In the example shown in
The network 100 may support synchronous or asynchronous operation. For synchronous operation, the BSs may have similar frame timing, and transmissions from different BSs may be approximately aligned in time. For asynchronous operation, the BSs may have different frame timing, and transmissions from different BSs may not be aligned in time.
The UEs 115 are dispersed throughout the wireless network 100, and each UE 115 may be stationary or mobile. A UE 115 may also be referred to as a terminal, a mobile station, a subscriber unit, a station, or the like. A UE 115 may be a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless modem, a wireless communication device, a handheld device, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a cordless phone, a wireless local loop (WLL) station, or the like. In one aspect, a UE 115 may be a device that includes a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC). In another aspect, a UE may be a device that does not include a UICC. In some aspects, the UEs 115 that do not include UICCs may also be referred to as IoT devices or internet of everything (IoE) devices. The UEs 115a-115d are examples of mobile smart phone-type devices accessing network 100. A UE 115 may also be a machine specifically configured for connected communication, including machine type communication (MTC), enhanced MTC (eMTC), narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and the like. The UEs 115e-115h are examples of various machines configured for communication that access the network 100. The UEs 115i-115k are examples of vehicles equipped with wireless communication devices configured for communication that access the network 100. A UE 115 may be able to communicate with any type of the BSs, whether macro BS, small cell, or the like. In
In operation, the BSs 105a-105c may serve the UEs 115a and 115b using 3D beamforming and coordinated spatial techniques, such as coordinated multipoint (CoMP) or multi-connectivity. The macro BS 105d may perform backhaul communications with the BSs 105a-105c, as well as small cell, the BS 105f. The macro BS 105d may also transmits multicast services which are subscribed to and received by the UEs 115c and 115d. Such multicast services may include mobile television or stream video, or may include other services for providing community information, such as weather emergencies or alerts, such as Amber alerts or gray alerts.
The BSs 105 may also communicate with a core network. The core network may provide user authentication, access authorization, tracking, Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity, and other access, routing, or mobility functions. At least some of the BSs 105 (e.g., which may be an example of a gNB or an access node controller (ANC)) may interface with the core network through backhaul links (e.g., NG-C, NG-U, etc.) and may perform radio configuration and scheduling for communication with the UEs 115. In various examples, the BSs 105 may communicate, either directly or indirectly (e.g., through core network), with each other over backhaul links (e.g., X1, X2, etc.), which may be wired or wireless communication links.
The network 100 may also support mission critical communications with ultra-reliable and redundant links for mission critical devices, such as the UE 115e, which may be a drone. Redundant communication links with the UE 115e may include links from the macro BSs 105d and 105e, as well as links from the small cell BS 105f. Other machine type devices, such as the UE 115f (e.g., a thermometer), the UE 115g (e.g., smart meter), and UE 115h (e.g., wearable device) may communicate through the network 100 either directly with BSs, such as the small cell BS 105f, and the macro BS 105e, or in multi-step-size configurations by communicating with another user device which relays its information to the network, such as the UE 115f communicating temperature measurement information to the smart meter, the UE 115g, which is then reported to the network through the small cell BS 105f. The network 100 may also provide additional network efficiency through dynamic, low-latency TDD/FDD communications, such as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications among the UEs 115i-115k, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications between a UE 115i, 115j, or 115k and other UEs 115, and/or vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications between a UE 115i, 115j, or 115k and a BS 105.
In some implementations, the network 100 utilizes OFDM-based waveforms for communications. An OFDM-based system may partition the system BW into multiple (K) orthogonal subcarriers, which are also commonly referred to as subcarriers, tones, bins, or the like. Each subcarrier may be modulated with data. In some instances, the subcarrier spacing between adjacent subcarriers may be fixed, and the total number of subcarriers (K) may be dependent on the system BW. The system BW may also be partitioned into subbands. In other instances, the subcarrier spacing and/or the duration of TTIs may be scalable.
In some aspects, the BSs 105 can assign or schedule transmission resources (e.g., in the form of time-frequency resource blocks (RB)) for downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) transmissions in the network 100. DL refers to the transmission direction from a BS 105 to a UE 115, whereas UL refers to the transmission direction from a UE 115 to a BS 105. The communication can be in the form of radio frames. A radio frame may be divided into a plurality of subframes or slots, for example, about 10. Each slot may be further divided into mini-slots. In a FDD mode, simultaneous UL and DL transmissions may occur in different frequency bands. For example, each subframe includes a UL subframe in a UL frequency band and a DL subframe in a DL frequency band. In a TDD mode, UL and DL transmissions occur at different time periods using the same frequency band. For example, a subset of the subframes (e.g., DL subframes) in a radio frame may be used for DL transmissions and another subset of the subframes (e.g., UL subframes) in the radio frame may be used for UL transmissions.
The DL subframes and the UL subframes can be further divided into several regions. For example, each DL or UL subframe may have pre-defined regions for transmissions of reference signals, control information, and data. Reference signals are predetermined signals that facilitate the communications between the BSs 105 and the UEs 115. For example, a reference signal can have a particular pilot pattern or structure, where pilot tones may span across an operational BW or frequency band, each positioned at a pre-defined time and a pre-defined frequency. For example, a BS 105 may transmit cell specific reference signals (CRSs) and/or channel state information—reference signals (CSI-RSs) to enable a UE 115 to estimate a DL channel. Similarly, a UE 115 may transmit sounding reference signals (SRSs) to enable a BS 105 to estimate a UL channel Control information may include resource assignments and protocol controls. Data may include protocol data and/or operational data. In some aspects, the BSs 105 and the UEs 115 may communicate using self-contained subframes. A self-contained subframe may include a portion for DL communication and a portion for UL communication. A self-contained subframe can be DL-centric or UL-centric. A DL-centric subframe may include a longer duration for DL communication than for UL communication. A UL-centric subframe may include a longer duration for UL communication than for UL communication.
In some aspects, the network 100 may be an NR network deployed over a licensed spectrum. The BSs 105 can transmit synchronization signals (e.g., including a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS)) in the network 100 to facilitate synchronization. The BSs 105 can broadcast system information associated with the network 100 (e.g., including a master information block (MIB), remaining system information (RMSI), and other system information (OSI)) to facilitate initial network access. In some instances, the BSs 105 may broadcast the PSS, the SSS, and/or the MIB in the form of synchronization signal block (SSBs) over a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) and may broadcast the RMSI and/or the OSI over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).
In some aspects, a UE 115 attempting to access the network 100 may perform an initial cell search by detecting a PSS from a BS 105. The PSS may enable synchronization of period timing and may indicate a physical layer identity value. The UE 115 may then receive a SSS. The SSS may enable radio frame synchronization, and may provide a cell identity value, which may be combined with the physical layer identity value to identify the cell. The PSS and the SSS may be located in a central portion of a carrier or any suitable frequencies within the carrier.
After receiving the PSS and SSS, the UE 115 may receive a MIB. The MIB may include system information for initial network access and scheduling information for RMSI and/or OSI. After decoding the MIB, the UE 115 may receive RMSI and/or OSI. The RMSI and/or OSI may include radio resource control (RRC) information related to random access channel (RACH) procedures, paging, control resource set (CORESET) for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring, physical UL control channel (PUCCH), physical UL shared channel (PUSCH), power control, and SRS.
After obtaining the MIB, the RMSI and/or the OSI, the UE 115 can perform a random access procedure to establish a connection with the BS 105. In some examples, the random access procedure may be a four-step random access procedure. For example, the UE 115 may transmit a random access preamble and the BS 105 may respond with a random access response. The random access response (RAR) may include a detected random access preamble identifier (ID) corresponding to the random access preamble, timing advance (TA) information, a UL grant, a temporary cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI), and/or a backoff indicator. Upon receiving the random access response, the UE 115 may transmit a connection request to the BS 105 and the BS 105 may respond with a connection response. The connection response may indicate a contention resolution. In some examples, the random access preamble, the RAR, the connection request, and the connection response can be referred to as message 1 (MSG1), message 2 (MSG2), message 3 (MSG3), and message 4 (MSG4), respectively. In some examples, the random access procedure may be a two-step random access procedure, where the UE 115 may transmit a random access preamble and a connection request in a single transmission and the BS 105 may respond by transmitting a random access response and a connection response in a single transmission.
After establishing a connection, the UE 115 and the BS 105 can enter a normal operation stage, where operational data may be exchanged. For example, the BS 105 may schedule the UE 115 for UL and/or DL communications. The BS 105 may transmit UL and/or DL scheduling grants to the UE 115 via a PDCCH. The scheduling grants may be transmitted in the form of DL control information (DCI). The BS 105 may transmit a DL communication signal (e.g., carrying data) to the UE 115 via a PDSCH according to a DL scheduling grant. The UE 115 may transmit a UL communication signal to the BS 105 via a PUSCH and/or PUCCH according to a UL scheduling grant.
In some aspects, the BS 105 may communicate with a UE 115 using HARQ techniques to improve communication reliability, for example, to provide a URLLC service. The BS 105 may schedule a UE 115 for a PDSCH communication by transmitting a DL grant in a PDCCH. The BS 105 may transmit a DL data packet to the UE 115 according to the schedule in the PDSCH. The DL data packet may be transmitted in the form of a transport block (TB). If the UE 115 receives the DL data packet successfully, the UE 115 may transmit a HARQ ACK to the BS 105. Conversely, if the UE 115 fails to receive the DL transmission successfully, the UE 115 may transmit a HARQ NACK to the BS 105. Upon receiving a HARQ NACK from the UE 115, the BS 105 may retransmit the DL data packet to the UE 115. The retransmission may include the same coded version of DL data as the initial transmission. Alternatively, the retransmission may include a different coded version of the DL data than the initial transmission. The UE 115 may apply soft-combining to combine the encoded data received from the initial transmission and the retransmission for decoding. The BS 105 and the UE 115 may also apply HARQ for UL communications using substantially similar mechanisms as the DL HARQ.
In some aspects, the network 100 may operate over a system BW or a component carrier (CC) BW. The network 100 may partition the system BW into multiple BWPs (e.g., portions). A BS 105 may dynamically assign a UE 115 to operate over a certain BWP (e.g., a certain portion of the system BW). The assigned BWP may be referred to as the active BWP. The UE 115 may monitor the active BWP for signaling information from the BS 105. The BS 105 may schedule the UE 115 for UL or DL communications in the active BWP. In some aspects, a BS 105 may assign a pair of BWPs within the CC to a UE 115 for UL and DL communications. For example, the BWP pair may include one BWP for UL communications and one BWP for DL communications.
In some aspects, the network 100 may operate over a shared channel, which may include shared frequency bands or unlicensed frequency bands. For example, the network 100 may be an NR-unlicensed (NR-U) network operating over an unlicensed frequency band. In such an aspect, the BSs 105 and the UEs 115 may be operated by multiple network operating entities. To avoid collisions, the BSs 105 and the UEs 115 may employ a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure to monitor for transmission opportunities (TXOPs) in the shared channel. For example, a transmitting node (e.g., a BS 105 or a UE 115) may perform an LBT prior to transmitting in the channel. When the LBT passes, the transmitting node may proceed with the transmission. When the LBT fails, the transmitting node may refrain from transmitting in the channel. In an example, the LBT may be based on energy detection. For example, the LBT results in a pass when signal energy measured from the channel is below a threshold. Conversely, the LBT results in a failure when signal energy measured from the channel exceeds the threshold. In another example, the LBT may be based on signal detection. For example, the LBT results in a pass when a channel reservation signal (e.g., a predetermined preamble signal) is not detected in the channel.
In some aspects, the network 100 may provision for sidelink communications to allow a UE 115 to communicate with another UE 115 without tunneling through a BS 105 and/or the core network. The BS 105 may configure certain resources in a licensed band and/or an unlicensed band for sidelink communications between the UE 115 and the other UE 115. Certain frequency bands may have certain BW occupancy requirements and/or a maximum allowable power spectral density (PSD). To meet BW occupancy requirements and/or boost transmit power under certain PSD limitations, sidelink transmissions in the network 100 may use a frequency-interlaced waveform. Mechanisms for sidelink communications using frequency interlaces are described in greater detail herein.
In the network 200, some of the UEs 215 may communicate with each other in peer-to-peer communications. For example, the UE 215a may communicate with the UE 215b over a sidelink 251, and the UE 215c may communicate with the UE 215d over another sidelink 252. The sidelinks 251 and 252 are unicast bidirectional links. Some of the UEs 215 may also communicate with the BS 205 in a UL direction and/or a DL direction via communication links 253. For instance, the UE 215a, 215b, and 215c are within a coverage area 210 of the BS 205, and thus may be in communication with the BS 205. The UE 215d is outside the coverage area 210, and thus may not be in direct communication with the BS 205. In some instances, the UE 215c may operate as a relay for the UE 215d to reach the BS 205. In some aspects, some of the UEs 215 are associated with vehicles (e.g., similar to the UEs 115i-k) and the communications over the sidelinks 251 and/or 252 may be C-V2X communications. C-V2X communications may refer to communications between vehicles and any other wireless communication devices in a cellular network.
In some aspects, the network 200 may be a LTE network. The transmissions by the UE 215a and the UE 215b over the sidelink 251 and/or the transmissions by the UE 215c and the UE 215d over the sidelink 252 may reuse a LTE PUSCH waveform, which is a discrete Fourier transform-spreading (DFT-s) based waveform. In some aspects, the network 200 may be an NR network. The transmissions by the UEs 215 over the sidelinks 251 and/or 252 may use a cyclic-prefix-OFDM (CP-OFDM) waveform.
The scheme 300 may be suitable when the sidelink communication is over a licensed band. For sidelink communication over a shared radio frequency band or unlicensed band, the sidelink communication may be required to satisfy certain power spectral density (PSD) requirements and/or occupancy channel bandwidth (OCB) requirements.
Accordingly, the present disclosure provides techniques for sidelink communications over an unlicensed band using frequency-interlaced waveforms to meet OCB requirements and allow for a higher total transmit power without exceeding a certain PSD limitation.
The processor 402 may include a central processing unit (CPU), a digital signal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a controller, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) device, another hardware device, a firmware device, or any combination thereof configured to perform the operations described herein. The processor 402 may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration.
The memory 404 may include a cache memory (e.g., a cache memory of the processor 402), random access memory (RAM), magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM), read-only memory (ROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM), flash memory, solid state memory device, hard disk drives, other forms of volatile and non-volatile memory, or a combination of different types of memory. In an aspect, the memory 404 includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The memory 404 may store, or have recorded thereon, instructions 406. The instructions 406 may include instructions that, when executed by the processor 402, cause the processor 402 to perform the operations described herein with reference to the UEs 115 in connection with aspects of the present disclosure, for example, aspects of
The sidelink communication module 408 may be implemented via hardware, software, or combinations thereof. For example, the sidelink communication module 408 may be implemented as a processor, circuit, and/or instructions 406 stored in the memory 404 and executed by the processor 402. In some instances, the sidelink communication module 408 can be integrated within the modem subsystem 412. For example, the sidelink communication module 408 can be implemented by a combination of software components (e.g., executed by a DSP or a general processor) and hardware components (e.g., logic gates and circuitry) within the modem subsystem 412.
The sidelink communication module 408 may be used for various aspects of the present disclosure, for example, aspects of
The configuration may further indicate a mapping scheme or protocol for mapping PSSCH communications to PSFCH resources. For example, the sidelink communication module 408 may be configured to receive one or more PSSCH communications in one or more RB-sets and in one or more first interlaces. The sidelink communication module 408 may be configured to map the PSSCH communications to one or more PSFCH interlaces in one or more RB-sets based on the mapping. In some aspects, the mapping may be a one-to-one mapping such that a PSSCH communication is mapped to a same RB-set and a same PSFCH interlace in the RB-set corresponding to the PSSCH interlace. In another aspect, the mapping may include a mapping to one or more cyclic shift pair sets, as further explained below. The mapping may be based on a slot index associated with each PSSCH communication. In another aspect, the sidelink communication module may be configured to hash within a CS pair set based on at least one of an identifier of the transmitting UE or a groupcast identifier associated with the PSSCH communications. Additional details regarding the mapping and communication of PSSCH and PSFCH communications will be described below with respect to
As shown, the transceiver 410 may include the modem subsystem 412 and the RF unit 414. The transceiver 410 can be configured to communicate bi-directionally with other devices, such as the BSs 105. The modem subsystem 412 may be configured to modulate and/or encode the data from the memory 404 and/or the sidelink communication module 408 according to a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), e.g., a low-density parity check (LDPC) coding scheme, a turbo coding scheme, a convolutional coding scheme, a digital beamforming scheme, etc. The RF unit 414 may be configured to process (e.g., perform analog to digital conversion or digital to analog conversion, etc.) modulated/encoded data (e.g., PSSCH data, PSCCH control information, and/or PSFCH data) from the modem subsystem 412 (on outbound transmissions) or of transmissions originating from another source such as a UE 115 or a BS 105. The RF unit 414 may be further configured to perform analog beamforming in conjunction with the digital beamforming. Although shown as integrated together in transceiver 410, the modem subsystem 412 and the RF unit 414 may be separate devices that are coupled together at the UE 115 to enable the UE 115 to communicate with other devices.
The RF unit 414 may provide the modulated and/or processed data, e.g. data packets (or, more generally, data messages that may contain one or more data packets and other information), to the antennas 416 for transmission to one or more other devices. The antennas 416 may further receive data messages transmitted from other devices. The antennas 416 may provide the received data messages for processing and/or demodulation at the transceiver 410. The transceiver 410 may provide the demodulated and decoded data (e.g., the frequency interlace configuration, PSSCH data, PSCCH control information, and/or PSFCH information) to the sidelink communication module 408 for processing. The antennas 416 may include multiple antennas of similar or different designs in order to sustain multiple transmission links. The RF unit 414 may configure the antennas 416.
In an example, the transceiver 410 is configured to receive a frequency interlace configuration from a BS (e.g., the BSs 105 and 205) indicating frequency-interlaced resources for sidelink communication, transmit PSSCH data, PSCCH control information, and/or feedbacks (e.g., HARQ ACK/NACK and/or channel measurement reports) to another UE, and/or receive PSSCH data, PSCCH control information, and/or feedbacks from another UE, for example, by coordinating with the sidelink communication module 408.
In an aspect, the UE 400 can include multiple transceivers 410 implementing different RATs (e.g., NR and LTE). In an aspect, the UE 400 can include a single transceiver 410 implementing multiple RATs (e.g., NR and LTE). In an aspect, the transceiver 410 can include various components, where different combinations of components can implement different RATs.
The processor 502 may have various features as a specific-type processor. For example, these may include a CPU, a DSP, an ASIC, a controller, a FPGA device, another hardware device, a firmware device, or any combination thereof configured to perform the operations described herein. The processor 502 may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration.
The memory 504 may include a cache memory (e.g., a cache memory of the processor 502), RAM, MRAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash memory, a solid state memory device, one or more hard disk drives, memristor-based arrays, other forms of volatile and non-volatile memory, or a combination of different types of memory. In some aspects, the memory 504 may include a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The memory 504 may store instructions 506. The instructions 506 may include instructions that, when executed by the processor 502, cause the processor 502 to perform operations described herein, for example, aspects of
The sidelink communication module 508 may be implemented via hardware, software, or combinations thereof. For example, the sidelink communication module 508 may be implemented as a processor, circuit, and/or instructions 506 stored in the memory 504 and executed by the processor 502. In some instances, the sidelink communication module 508 can be integrated within the modem subsystem 512. For example, the sidelink communication module 508 can be implemented by a combination of software components (e.g., executed by a DSP or a general processor) and hardware components (e.g., logic gates and circuitry) within the modem subsystem 512.
The sidelink communication module 508 may be used for various aspects of the present disclosure, for example, aspects of
The configuration may further indicate a mapping scheme or protocol for mapping PSSCH communications to PSFCH resources. For example, the configuration may include a configuration for mapping the PSSCH communications to one or more PSFCH interlaces in one or more RB-sets based on the mapping. In some aspects, the mapping may be a one-to-one mapping such that a PSSCH communication is mapped to a same RB-set and a same PSFCH interlace in the RB-set corresponding to the PSSCH interlace. In another aspect, the mapping may include a mapping to one or more cyclic shift pair sets, as further explained below. The mapping may be based on a slot index associated with each PSSCH communication. In another aspect, the sidelink communication module may be configured to hash within a CS pair set based on at least one of an identifier of the transmitting UE or a groupcast identifier associated with the PSSCH communications. Additional details regarding the mapping and communication of PSSCH and PSFCH communications will be described below with respect to
As shown, the transceiver 510 may include the modem subsystem 512 and the RF unit 514. The transceiver 510 can be configured to communicate bi-directionally with other devices, such as the UEs 115 and/or 400 and/or another core network element. The modem subsystem 512 may be configured to modulate and/or encode data according to a MCS, e.g., a LDPC coding scheme, a turbo coding scheme, a convolutional coding scheme, a digital beamforming scheme, etc. The RF unit 514 may be configured to process (e.g., perform analog to digital conversion or digital to analog conversion, etc.) modulated/encoded data (e.g., grants, resource allocations) from the modem subsystem 512 (on outbound transmissions) or of transmissions originating from another source such as a UE 115 and/or UE 400. The RF unit 514 may be further configured to perform analog beamforming in conjunction with the digital beamforming. Although shown as integrated together in transceiver 510, the modem subsystem 512 and/or the RF unit 514 may be separate devices that are coupled together at the BS 105 to enable the BS 105 to communicate with other devices.
The RF unit 514 may provide the modulated and/or processed data, e.g. data packets (or, more generally, data messages that may contain one or more data packets and other information), to the antennas 516 for transmission to one or more other devices. This may include, for example, transmission of information to complete attachment to a network and communication with a camped UE 115 or 400 according to some aspects of the present disclosure. The antennas 516 may further receive data messages transmitted from other devices and provide the received data messages for processing and/or demodulation at the transceiver 510. The transceiver 510 may provide the demodulated and decoded data (e.g., UCI, DMRS) to the sidelink communication module 508 for processing. The antennas 516 may include multiple antennas of similar or different designs in order to sustain multiple transmission links.
In an example, the transceiver 510 is configured to transmit a resource configuration to a UE (e.g., the UEs 115 and 400) indicating a frequency interlace and receive a UL control channel signal (e.g., a PUCCH signal) modulated by HARQ ACK/NACK and SR from the UE in the frequency interlace, for example, by coordinating with the sidelink communication module 508.
In an aspect, the BS 500 can include multiple transceivers 510 implementing different RATs (e.g., NR and LTE). In an aspect, the BS 500 can include a single transceiver 510 implementing multiple RATs (e.g., NR and LTE). In an aspect, the transceiver 510 can include various components, where different combinations of components can implement different RATs.
The frequency interlaces are shown as 608I(0) to 608(M−1), where M is a positive integer. Each frequency interlace 608I(i) may include K plurality of RBs 610 evenly spaced over the frequency band 602, where K is a positive integer and i may vary between 0 to M−1. In other words, the RBs 610 in a particular frequency interlace 608I(i) are spaced apart from each other by at least one other RB 610. The frequency interlace 608I(0) as shown comprises RBs 610 from clusters 604C(0) to 604C(K−1). The values of K and M may vary based on several factors, such as the bandwidth, the SCS, and/or the PSD limitation of the frequency band 602, as described in greater detail herein. In an example, a BS (e.g., the BSs 105) may assign the frequency interlace 608I(0) for sidelink communications between a pair of UEs (e.g., the UEs 115) and may assign the frequency interlace 608I(1) for sidelink communications between another pair of UEs. The allocation of the frequency interlace 608I(0) are shown as patterned boxes. In some other examples, the BS may assign multiple frequency interlaces 608 (e.g., frequency interlaces 608I(0) and 608I(1)) for sidelink communications between a pair of UEs.
A group of M localized RBs 610 forms a cluster 604. As shown, the frequency interlaces 608I(0) to 608(M−1) form K clusters 604C(0) to 604C(K−1). Each RB 610 may span about twelve contiguous subcarriers 612 in frequency and a time period 614. The subcarriers 612 are indexed from 0 to 11. The subcarriers 612 are also referred to as resource elements (REs). The time period 614 may span any suitable number of OFDM symbols 606. In some aspects, the time period 614 may correspond to one transmission time interval (TTI), which may include about fourteen OFDM symbols 606.
The number of clusters 604 or the value of K may be dependent on the amount of frequency distribution required to maintain a certain BW occupancy. As an example, the scheme 600 may divide the frequency band 602 into about ten clusters 604 (e.g., K=10) and distribute an allocation over the ten clusters 604 to increase a frequency occupancy of the allocation. In an aspect, the frequency band 602 may have a bandwidth of about 20 MHz and each subcarrier 612 may span about 15 kHz in frequency. In such an aspect, the frequency band 602 may include about ten frequency interlaces 608 (e.g., M=10). For example, an allocation may include one frequency interlace 608 having ten distributed or equally spaced RBs 610. Compared to an allocation with a single RB or ten localized RBs, the interlaced allocation with the ten distributed RBs 610 allows a UE to transmit with a higher BW occupancy.
In another aspect, the frequency band 602 may have a bandwidth of about 10 MHz and each subcarrier 612 may span about 15 kHz in frequency. In such an aspect, the frequency band 602 may include about five frequency interlaces 608 (e.g., M=5). Similarly, an allocation may include one frequency interlace 608 having ten distributed RBs 610. The interlaced allocation with the ten distributed RBs may allow for a wider BW occupancy than an allocation with a single RB or ten localized RBs.
In another aspect, the frequency band 602 may have a bandwidth of about 20 MHz and each subcarrier 612 may span about 30 kHz in frequency. In such an aspect, the frequency band 602 may include about five frequency interlaces 608 (e.g., M=5). Similarly, an allocation may include one frequency interlace 608 having ten distributed RBs 610. The interlaced allocation with the ten distributed RBs may allow for a wider BW occupancy than an allocation with a single RB or ten localized RBs.
In some aspects, the RBs 610 are physical resource blocks (PRBs) and each frequency interlace 608 may include PRBs uniformly spaced in the frequency band 602.
In the scheme 600, sidelink communications over an assigned frequency interlace 608 (e.g., the frequency interlace 608I(0)) may include PSSCH communications (e.g., the PSSCH communication 310) and PSCCH communication (e.g., the PSCCH communication 320). Thus, in the scheme 600, sidelink transmissions may have a frequency-interlaced waveform. Since the frequency band 602 is a shared radio frequency band or an unlicensed band, a UE is required to perform an LBT prior to transmitting in an assigned frequency interlace 608. When the LBT is a pass, the UE may proceed to transmit PSSCH data and/or PSCCH control information to another UE using the assigned frequency interlace 608. The PSSCH control information may be transmitted in the form of SCI, which may be substantially similar to the PDCCH DCI transmitted by a BS to a UE. When the LBT fails, the UE may refrain from transmitting in the assigned frequency interlace. To reduce LBT delay, the scheme 600 may configure the UE to multiplex PSSCH and PSCCH in the same frequency interlace 608.
In the scheme 700, a BS (e.g., the BSs 105, 205, and/or 500) may configure a first UE (e.g., the UEs 115, 215, and/or 400) with a frequency interlace 608 in the frequency band 602 for sidelink communication with a second UE (e.g., the UEs 115, 215, and/or 400) over a sidelink (e.g., the sidelinks 251 and/or 252). For example, in the illustrated example of
To provide a maximum frequency diversity for the PSCCH communication 720, the BS may configure the PSCCH communication 720 to be at the two ends of the frequency interlace 608I(0). In other words, the BS may configure a highest-frequency RB (e.g., the RB(0)) and a lowest-frequency RB (e.g., the RB(9)) for the PSCCH communication 720. The PSSCH communication 710 may use the remaining RBs (e.g., the RB(1) to RB(8)) in the frequency interlace 608I(0).
The PSSCH communication 710 may include data and the PSCCH communication 720 may include control information associated with the transmission of the data.
In some aspects, the transmission of the PSSCH communication 710 and the PSCCH communication 720 may use a CP-OFDM waveform over the frequency interlace 608I(0). In this regard, the first UE and/or the second UE may generate a CP-OFDM transmission signal by mapping encoded PSSCH control information and the encoded PSSCH data onto subcarriers (e.g., the subcarriers 612) of corresponding RBs of the frequency interlace 608I(0) and performing an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT).
In the scheme 800, a BS (e.g., the BSs 105, 205, and/or 500) may configure a first UE (e.g., the UEs 115, 215, and/or 400) with the frequency interlace 608I(0) for sidelink communication with a second UE (e.g., the UEs 115, 215, and/or 400) over a sidelink (e.g., the sidelinks 251 and/or 252). The BS may configure the first UE with a TDM configuration for multiplexing the PSSCH communication 810 and the PSCCH communication 820 on the frequency interlace 608I(0). The BS may configure a time period 802 for the PSCCH communication 820 and another time period 804 for the PSSCH communication 810. The time period 804 may be adjacent to the time period 802 to reduce LBT delay (e.g., a single LBT may be performed before the time period 802 for the transmission of the PSCCH communication 820 and the PSSCH communication 810). In some instances, the time period 804 for the PSSCH communication 810 may include a greater number of symbols (e.g., the symbols 606) than the time period 802 for the PSCCH communication 820. In some instances, the time period 802 may include about 1-2 OFDM symbols and the time period 804 may include 10-11 symbols. In some instances, the length of the time period 802 for the PSCCH communication 820 may be predetermined. The first UE may transmit SCI in the PSCCH communication 820 during the time period 802 to the second UE, and the second UE may perform blind decoding in the time period 802 to receive the SCI.
While the PSSCH communication 810 and the PSCCH communication 820 are communicated during different time periods, each PSSCH communication 810, the PSCCH communication 820 may include an interlaced waveform. In some aspects, the transmission of the PSSCH communication 810 and the PSCCH communication 820 may use a DFT-s-OFDM waveform over the frequency interlace 608I(0). In this regard, the first UE and/or the second UE may generate a DFT-s-OFDM transmission signal for transmission during the time period 802 by performing a DFT on the encode PSSCH control information, mapping the DFT output onto subcarriers (e.g., the subcarriers 612) of the RBs in the frequency interlace 608I(0), and performing an IFFT. Similarly, the first UE and/or the second UE may generate a DFT-s-OFDM transmission signal for transmission during the time period 804 by performing a DFT on the encode PSSCH data, mapping the DFT output onto subcarriers of the RBs in the frequency interlace 608I(0), and performing an IFFT. The DFT-s-OFDM based waveform transmission in the scheme 800 may provide a lower peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR) than the CP-OFDM based waveform transmission in the scheme 700.
A UE may be configured with sidelink feedback resources for communicating an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement that the PSSCH communication was received. For example, the UE may be configured with physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources for communicating the SL feedback communication. In some aspects, the PSFCH communication may span about one OFDM symbol. In some other aspects, the PSFCH communication may span more than one OFDM symbol. In some aspects, the PSFCH communication may include at least one symbol for automatic gain control (AGC).
In some aspects, the PSFCH communication may carry HARQ ACK/NACK feedbacks. As described above, HARQ techniques may be applied to improve communication reliability. In this regard, a first UE and a second UE may communicate PSSCH data (e.g., the PSSCH communications) using HARQ and communicate HARQ ACK/NACK feedback using an assigned frequency interlace. For instance, the first UE may transmit PSSCH data to the second UE over a sidelink interface. The PSSCH data packet may be transmitted in the form of a TB. If the second UE receives PSSCH data successfully, the second UE may transmit a HARQ ACK (in the PSFCH communication) to the first UE using the at least one assigned frequency interlace. Conversely, if the second UE fails to receive the PSSCH data successfully, the second UE may transmit a HARQ NACK (in the PSFCH communication) to the first UE using the assigned frequency interlace. Upon receiving a HARQ NACK from the second UE, the first UE may retransmit the PSSCH data. Similarly, the second UE may transmit PSSCH data to the first UE using similar HARQ mechanisms. In some aspects, the HARQ ACK/NACK transmission may use one waveform sequence to indicate an ACK and another waveform sequence to indicate a NACK.
In some instances, a plurality of PSFCH communications are transmitted simultaneously, where each PSFCH communication corresponds to a respective PSSCH communication. For example, in some aspects, each PSFCH communication may correspond to a respective PSSCH TB. Accordingly, the second UE transmitting the PSFCH communications may map each PSSCH communication to a respective PSFCH resource. The present disclosure describes schemes and mechanisms for mapping, hashing, multiplexing, and communicating PSFCH communications using interlaced PSFCH waveforms. In some aspects, the PSFCH resources may include, or be defined in terms of, RB-sets, interlaces, and/or cyclic shift (CS) pairs. For example, aspects of the present disclosure may include mapping one or more PSSCH communications based on their associated RB-set, interlace, and/or slot to one or more corresponding PSFCH resources in one or more RB-sets, interlaces, CS pair sets, and/or CS pairs. Further aspects of the present disclosure include hashing PSFCH communications in a plurality of CS pairs.
Referring to the scheme 900 of
In one aspect, the PSSCH communications 906i(j) are mapped to the PSFCH resources 940 based on the RB-set 902 and the interlace 904i. For example, the PSSCH communications 90600) and 9060(1) map to the PSFCH interlace 9100 in the RB-set 902. In the example of
In some aspects, the mapping may include a one-to-one mapping from the PSSCH interlace and slot index to the corresponding PSFCH interlace and a corresponding CS pair set within the PSFCH period. In one aspect, the PSSCH leading RB-set and interlace may be the interlace and RB-set which carry or include the SCI-1 scheduling the PSSCH communication. If the PSSCH resources 930 include the same number of RB-sets and the same number of interlaces as the PSFCH resources 940, the mapping may include a one-to-one mapping between the PSSCH interlace and RB-set, and the PSFCH interlace in the same RB-set. In one example, the UE may map a leading PSSCH interlace and one or more RB-sets to a corresponding PSFCH interlace in the one or more RB-sets. In another example, the UE may map a set of PSSCH interlaces and one or more RB-sets to a corresponding set of PSFCH interlaces in the one or more RB-sets. In another example, the UE may map a leading PSSCH interlace and a leading RB-set to a corresponding PSFCH interlace and a corresponding RB-set.
In some aspects, the number of PSFCH interlaces within an RB-set may be smaller than the number of PSSCH interlaces. For example, referring to
Where NtypePSFCH may be:
In some aspects, NRBsetPSSCH is the number of RB-sets that the corresponding PSSCH occupies. In some aspects, NinterlacesPSSCH is the number of interlaces that the PSSCH occupies. In some aspects, the choice of NtypePSFCH based on whether all of the PSFCH resources 940 are used in the PSSCH occupied interlaces and RB-sets.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a UE may be configured to hash within associated CS pair sets 916 based on the transmitting UE's identifier (ID) and/or on the groupcast ID associated with the PSSCH communication. For example, in some aspects, a receiving UE may be configured to hash within an associated CS pair set based on the transmitting UE's L1 ID and groupcast ID of the PSSCH communication. In some aspects, the hashing may be based on the formula below:
(PID±MID)mod NCS-setPSFCH (3)
Where PID and MID are the transmitting UE's ID and the groupcast ID, respectively.
In some aspects, the PSFCH period may be 0, 1, 2, 4, and/or any other suitable period. In some aspects, there may be 2, 3, 4, 6, and/or any other suitable number of CS pairs within an interlace of RBs. In this regard,
At step 1010, the BS transmits, and UE A and UE B receive, a frequency interlace configuration for sidelink communication between the UE A and the UE B. The sidelink communications may include one or more PSSCH communications (e.g., PSSCH communications 710, 810, and/or 906), PSCCH communications (e.g., the PSCCH communications 720 and/or 820), and/or one or more PSFCH communications. The configuration may indicate a pool of frequency resources in a shared frequency band. In some aspects, the shared frequency resources include one or more RB-sets (e.g., the RB-set 902) and one or more PSSCH interlaces (e.g., the frequency interlaces 904). The configuration may further indicate a multiplexing configuration for multiplexing PSSCH and PSCCH communication on the same frequency interlace. The configuration may further indicate a mapping configuration or scheme for mapping PSSCH communications or resources to PSFCH resources. For example, the configuration may indicate a mapping scheme from one or more PSSCH interlaces in one or more RB-sets to one or more corresponding PSFCH interlaces in the one or more RB-sets, as described above with respect to
At step 1012, UE A transmits, and UE B receives, a PSCCH and a PSSCH communication. In some aspects, the PSCCH may include sidelink control information (SCI) indicating a grant or allocation for the PSSCH communication. In another aspect, the SCI may indicate the PSFCH resources described above. For example, the SCI may indicate one or more RB-sets, one or more PSSCH interlaces, and/or one or more PSFCH interlaces. In some aspects, the SCI may include an SCI-1. In some aspects, the PSSCH communication includes a plurality of PSSCH TBs distributed across one or more indicated RB-sets and in one or more PSSCH interlaces. Further, the PSSCH communications may be communicated over one or more slots, where each slot is associated with a slot index. In some aspects, the number of slots in which the PSSCH communications are communicated may be referred to as the PSFCH period.
At step 1014, UE B maps the one or more PSSCH communications to the indicated PSFCH resources based on the configuration transmitted at action 1010. Accordingly, step 1014 may include one or more aspects of actions 900 and/or 950 described above with respect to
In one aspect, the PSSCH communications are mapped to the PSFCH resources based on the RB-set and the interlace. In another aspect, the PSSCH communications may be mapped to the PSFCH resources further based on the slot index. For example, the PSSCH communications may be mapped to one or more CS pairs in the PSFCH resources. In some aspects, the size of CS pairs in an interlace may be determined or defined based on equation (1).
In some aspects, the mapping may include a one-to-one mapping from the PSSCH interlace and slot index to the corresponding PSFCH interlace and a corresponding CS pair within the PSFCH period. In one aspect, the PSSCH leading RB-set and interlace may be the interlace and RB-set which carry or include the SCI-1 scheduling the PSSCH communication. If the PSSCH resources include the same number of RB-sets and the same number of interlaces as the PSFCH resources, the mapping may include a one-to-one mapping between the PSSCH interlace and RB-set, and the PSFCH interlace in the same RB-set. In one example, the UE B may map a leading PSSCH interlace and one or more RB-sets to a corresponding PSFCH interlace in the one or more RB-sets. In another example, the UE B may map a set of PSSCH interlaces and one or more RB-sets to a corresponding set of PSFCH interlaces in the one or more RB-sets. In another example, the UE may map a leading PSSCH interlace and a leading RB-set to a corresponding PSFCH interlace and a corresponding RB-set.
In some aspects, the number of PSFCH interlaces within an RB-set may be smaller than the number of PSSCH interlaces. The UE B may partition a total number of CS pairs in the PSFCH resources and map the PSSCH communications based on a leading PSSCH interlace to a corresponding partitioned CS pair set. In this regard, although the number of PSFCH interlaces may be smaller than or otherwise different than the number of PSSCH interlaces, the UE B may map a PSSCH leading RB-set or RB-sets to a corresponding PSFCH RB-set or RB-sets. In some aspects, the size of a partitioned CS pairs set may be determined or defined based on equation (2).
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, UE B may be configured to hash within associated CS pair sets based on UE A's identifier (ID) and/or on the groupcast ID associated with the PSSCH communication. For example, in some aspects, UE B may be configured to hash within an associated CS pair set based on UE A's L1 ID and the groupcast ID of the PSSCH communication. In some aspects, the hashing may be based on equation (3).
At step 1016, based on the mapping of action 1014, UE B transmits and UE A receives, a PSFCH communication indicating HARQ ACK/NACK feedback for each of the PSSCH communications transmitted at action 1012.
At step 1110, the method 1100 includes receiving, in first sidelink (SL) resources of a shared frequency band comprising a first interlace of resource blocks (RBs) within one or more first RB-sets, a first SL communication in a first slot and a second SL communication in a second slot. In some aspects, the first SL communication and the second SL communication comprise PSSCH communications. For example, the first SL communication may comprise a first PSSCH communication and the second SL communication may comprise a second PSSCH communication. In some aspects, the first and second SL communications may comprise first and second PSSCH transport blocks (TBs). In some aspects, the PSSCH communications are distributed across one or more indicated RB-sets and in one or more PSSCH interlaces. In some aspects, the communication of the first and second SL communications may be based on a SL resource pool configuration transmitted by the network via a network entity, for example. Further, the PSSCH communications may be communicated over one or more slots, where each slot is associated with a slot index.
At step 1120, the method 1100 includes transmitting, in second SL resources of the shared frequency band comprising the one or more first RB-sets and a second interlace of RBs, a first SL feedback communication for the first SL communication and a second SL feedback communication for the second SL communication. In some aspects, the transmitting the first SL feedback communication and the second SL feedback communication is based on a mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication to the second interlace of RBs in the one or more first RB-sets.
In some aspects, step 1120 includes mapping the first and second SL communications to the SL resources based on a SL resource configuration communicated by the network. For example, step 1120 may include the first UE mapping the one or more PSSCH communications to the indicated PSFCH resources based on the SL resource pool configuration. Accordingly, step 1120 may include one or more aspects of the schemes 900 and/or 950 described above with respect to
In one aspect, the PSSCH communications are mapped to the PSFCH resources based on the RB-set and the interlace. In another aspect, the PSSCH communications may be mapped to the PSFCH resources further based on the slot index. For example, the PSSCH communications may be mapped to one or more CS pairs in the PSFCH resources. In some aspects, the size of CS pairs in an interlace may be determined or defined based on equation (1).
In some aspects, the mapping may include a one-to-one mapping from the PSSCH interlace and slot index to the corresponding PSFCH interlace and a corresponding CS pair within the PSFCH period. In one aspect, the PSSCH leading RB-set and interlace may be the interlace and RB-set which carry or include the SCI-1 scheduling the PSSCH communication. If the PSSCH resources include the same number of RB-sets and the same number of interlaces as the PSFCH resources, the mapping may include a one-to-one mapping between the PSSCH interlace and RB-set, and the PSFCH interlace in the same RB-set. In one example, the first UE may map a leading PSSCH interlace and one or more RB-sets to a corresponding PSFCH interlace in the one or more RB-sets. In another example, the first UE may map a set of PSSCH interlaces and one or more RB-sets to a corresponding set of PSFCH interlaces in the one or more RB-sets. In another example, the UE may map a leading PSSCH interlace and a leading RB-set to a corresponding PSFCH interlace and a corresponding RB-set.
In some aspects, the number of PSFCH interlaces within an RB-set may be smaller than the number of PSSCH interlaces. The first UE may partition a total number of CS pairs in the PSFCH resources and map the PSSCH communications based on a leading PSSCH interlace to a corresponding partitioned CS pair set. In this regard, although the number of PSFCH interlaces may be smaller than or otherwise different than the number of PSSCH interlaces, the first UE may map a PSSCH leading RB-set or RB-sets to a corresponding PSFCH RB-set or RB-sets. In some aspects, the size of a partitioned CS pairs set may be determined or defined based on equation (2).
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the first UE may be configured to hash within associated CS pair sets based on the second UE's identifier (ID) and/or on the groupcast ID associated with the PSSCH communication. For example, in some aspects, the first UE may be configured to hash within an associated CS pair set based on the second UE's L1 ID and the groupcast ID of the PSSCH communication. In some aspects, the hashing may be based on equation (3). As explained above, communicating the first and second SL feedback communications may include communicating PSFCH communications associated with a plurality of PSSCH communications.
Aspect 1. A method of wireless communication performed by a first wireless communication device, the method comprising: receiving, in first sidelink (SL) resources of a shared frequency band comprising a first interlace of resource blocks (RBs) within one or more first RB-sets, a first SL communication in a first slot and a second SL communication in a second slot; and transmitting, in second SL resources of the shared frequency band comprising the one or more first RB-sets and a second interlace of RBs, a first SL feedback communication for the first SL communication and a second SL feedback communication for the second SL communication, wherein the transmitting the first SL feedback communication and the second SL feedback communication is based on a mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication to the second interlace of RBs in the one or more first RB-sets.
Aspect 2. The method of aspect 1, wherein: the first SL resources comprise a first plurality of interlaces of RBs and a first plurality of RB-sets, the first plurality of interlaces of RBs comprising the first interlace of RBs and the first plurality of RB-sets comprising the one or more first RB-sets; the second SL resources comprise a second plurality of interlaces of RBs in the first plurality of RB-sets, the second plurality of interlaces of RBs comprising the second interlace of RBs.
Aspect 3. The method of aspect 2, wherein a number of interlaces of RBs of the second plurality of interlaces of RBs is equal to a number of interlaces of RBs of the first plurality of interlaces of RBs.
Aspect 4. The method of aspect 3, wherein: the one or more first RB-sets comprises two or more first RB-sets; the receiving the first SL communication and the second SL communication comprises receiving the first SL communication and the second SL communication in the two or more first RB-sets; the mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication is a mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication to the second interlace of RBs in the two or more first RB-sets.
Aspect 5. The method of aspect 3, wherein: the one or more first RB-sets comprises a first RB-set; the first SL communication and the second SL communication are received in the first RB-set; the mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication is a mapping of the first SL communication and the second SL communication to the second interlace in the first RB-set.
Aspect 6. The method of any of aspects 3-5, wherein the mapping is based on the first slot and the second slot, and wherein the mapping comprises a mapping of the first SL feedback communication to a first cyclic shift (CS) pair set within the second interlace of RBs, and a mapping of the second SL feedback communication to a second CS pair set within the second interlace of RBs.
Aspect 7. The method of aspect 2, wherein a number of interlaces of RBs of the second plurality of interlaces of RBs is smaller than a number of interlaces of RBs of the first plurality of interlaces of RBs.
Aspect 8. The method of aspect 7, wherein the second SL resources comprise a plurality of cyclic shift (CS) pairs, and wherein the mapping is based on a partitioning of the plurality of CS pairs into a plurality of CS pair sets, and wherein the partitioning of the plurality of CS pairs is based on a number of interlaces of RBs of the first plurality of interlaces of RBs and a number of slots of the first SL resources.
Aspect 9. The method of aspect 8, wherein a size of each CS pair set of the plurality of CS pair sets is based on a number of CS pairs within the second interlace of RBs and a number of slots in the first SL resources.
Aspect 10. The method of any of aspects 1-9, wherein the second interlace of RBs within the one or more first RB-sets comprises a plurality of cyclic shift (CS) pairs, wherein the mapping is based on a hashing of the first interlace of RBs and the first slot within the plurality of CS pairs.
Aspect 11. The method of aspect 10, wherein the receiving the first SL communication and the second SL communication comprises receiving the first SL communication and the second SL communication from a second UE, and wherein the hashing is based on an identifier of the second UE and a groupcast identifier.
Aspect 12. The method of aspect 11, wherein the hashing is further based on a number of CS pairs of the plurality of CS pairs.
Aspect 13. A first wireless communication device comprising: a memory; a transceiver; and a processor in communication with the memory and the transceiver, wherein the first wireless communication device is configured to perform the actions of any of aspects 1-12.
Aspect 14. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium having program code recorded thereon, wherein the program code comprises instructions executable by a processor of a first wireless communication device to cause the first wireless communication advice to perform the actions of any of aspects 1-12.
Aspect 15. A first wireless communication device, comprising: means for performing the actions of any of aspects 1-12.
Information and signals may be represented using any of a variety of different technologies and techniques. For example, data, instructions, commands, information, signals, bits, symbols, and chips that may be referenced throughout the above description may be represented by voltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or particles, optical fields or particles, or any combination thereof.
The various illustrative blocks and modules described in connection with the disclosure herein may be implemented or performed with a general-purpose processor, a DSP, an ASIC, an FPGA or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine. A processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices (e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, multiple microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration).
The functions described herein may be implemented in hardware, software executed by a processor, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software executed by a processor, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. Other examples and implementations are within the scope of the disclosure and appended claims. For example, due to the nature of software, functions described above can be implemented using software executed by a processor, hardware, firmware, hardwiring, or combinations of any of these. Features implementing functions may also be physically located at various positions, including being distributed such that portions of functions are implemented at different physical locations. Also, as used herein, including in the claims, “or” as used in a list of items (for example, a list of items prefaced by a phrase such as “at least one of” or “one or more of”) indicates an inclusive list such that, for example, a list of [at least one of A, B, or C] means A or B or C or AB or AC or BC or ABC (i.e., A and B and C).
As those of some skill in this art will by now appreciate and depending on the particular application at hand, many modifications, substitutions and variations can be made in and to the materials, apparatus, configurations and methods of use of the devices of the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. In light of this, the scope of the present disclosure should not be limited to that of the particular embodiments illustrated and described herein, as they are merely by way of some examples thereof, but rather, should be fully commensurate with that of the claims appended hereafter and their functional equivalents.
The present application claims the benefit of and priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/336,126, filed Apr. 28, 2022, the entirety of which is incorporated by reference herein.
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