Patent Grant
11889477
This disclosure relates to a wireless communication system.
Sidelink (SL) communication is a communication scheme in which a direct link is established between User Equipments (UEs) and the UEs exchange voice and data directly with each other without intervention of an evolved Node B (eNB). SL communication is under consideration as a solution to the overhead of an eNB caused by rapidly increasing data traffic. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) refers to a communication technology through which a vehicle exchanges information with another vehicle, a pedestrian, an object having an infrastructure (or infra) established therein, and so on. The V2X may be divided into 4 types, such as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-network (V2N), and vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P). The V2X communication may be provided via a PC5 interface and/or Uu interface.
Meanwhile, as a wider range of communication devices require larger communication capacities, the need for mobile broadband communication that is more enhanced than the existing Radio Access Technology (RAT) is rising. Accordingly, discussions are made on services and user equipment (UE) that are sensitive to reliability and latency. And, a next generation radio access technology that is based on the enhanced mobile broadband communication, massive Machine Type Communication (MTC), Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication (URLLC), and so on, may be referred to as a new radio access technology (RAT) or new radio (NR). Herein, the NR may also support vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method for performing, by a first device, wireless communication may be proposed. For example, the method may comprise: determining a selection window; selecting X candidate resources based on sensing within the selection window, wherein the X candidate resources are included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to a second device; selecting a transmission resource for a transmission of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the X candidate resources; transmitting, to the second device, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on the transmission resource; and transmitting, to the second device, the MAC PDU through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a first device for performing wireless communication may be proposed. For example, the first device may comprise: one or more memories storing instructions; one or more transceivers; and one or more processors connected to the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers. For example, the one or more processors may execute the instructions to: determine a selection window; select X candidate resources based on sensing within the selection window, wherein the X candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to a second device; select a transmission resource for a transmission of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the X candidate resources; transmit, to the second device, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on the transmission resource; and transmit, to the second device, the MAC PDU through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a device adapted to control a first user equipment (UE) may be proposed. For example, the device may comprise: one or more processors; and one or more memories operably connectable to the one or more processors and storing instructions. For example, the one or more processors may execute the instructions to: determine a selection window; select X candidate resources based on sensing within the selection window, wherein the X candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to a second UE; select a transmission resource for a transmission of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the X candidate resources; transmit, to the second UE, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on the transmission resource; and transmit, to the second UE, the MAC PDU through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions may be proposed. For example, the instructions, when executed, may cause a first device to: determine a selection window; select X candidate resources based on sensing within the selection window, wherein the X candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to a second device; select a transmission resource for a transmission of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the X candidate resources; transmit, to the second device, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on the transmission resource; and transmit, to the second device, the MAC PDU through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method for performing, by a second device, wireless communication may be proposed. For example, the method may comprise: receiving, from a first device, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on a transmission resource; and receiving, from the first device, a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource, wherein the transmission is selected in Y candidate resources, wherein X candidate resources among the Y candidate resources are included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to the second device, and wherein the Y candidate resources are selected based on sensing within a selection window.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a second device for performing wireless communication may be proposed. For example, the second device may comprise: one or more memories storing instructions; one or more transceivers; and one or more processors connected to the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers. For example, the one or more processors may execute the instructions to: receive, from a first device, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on a transmission resource; and receive, from the first device, a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource, wherein the transmission may be selected in Y candidate resources, wherein X candidate resources among the Y candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to the second device, and wherein the Y candidate resources may be selected based on sensing within a selection window.
A UE may efficiently perform sidelink communication.
In the present disclosure, “A or B” may mean “only A”, “only B” or “both A and B.” In other words, in the present disclosure, “A or B” may be interpreted as “A and/or B”. For example, in the present disclosure, “A, B, or C” may mean “only A”, “only B”, “only C”, or “any combination of A, B, C”.
A slash (/) or comma used in the present disclosure may mean “and/or”. For example, “A/B” may mean “A and/or B”. Accordingly, “A/B” may mean “only A”, “only B”, or “both A and B”. For example, “A, B, C” may mean “A, B, or C”.
In the present disclosure, “at least one of A and B” may mean “only A”, “only B”, or “both A and B”. In addition, in the present disclosure, the expression “at least one of A or B” or “at least one of A and/or B” may be interpreted as “at least one of A and B”.
In addition, in the present disclosure, “at least one of A, B, and C” may mean “only A”, “only B”, “only C”, or “any combination of A, B, and C”. In addition, “at least one of A, B, or C” or “at least one of A, B, and/or C” may mean “at least one of A, B, and C”.
In addition, a parenthesis used in the present disclosure may mean “for example”. Specifically, when indicated as “control information (PDCCH)”, it may mean that “PDCCH” is proposed as an example of the “control information”. In other words, the “control information” of the present disclosure is not limited to “PDCCH”, and “PDCCH” may be proposed as an example of the “control information”. In addition, when indicated as “control information (i.e., PDCCH)”, it may also mean that “PDCCH” is proposed as an example of the “control information”.
In the following description, ‘when, if, or in case of’ may be replaced with ‘based on’.
A technical feature described individually in one figure in the present disclosure may be individually implemented, or may be simultaneously implemented.
In the present disclosure, a higher layer parameter may be a parameter which is configured, pre-configured or pre-defined for a UE. For example, a base station or a network may transmit the higher layer parameter to the UE. For example, the higher layer parameter may be transmitted through radio resource control (RRC) signaling or medium access control (MAC) signaling.
The technology described below may be used in various wireless communication systems such as code division multiple access (CDMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA), and so on. The CDMA may be implemented with a radio technology, such as universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) or CDMA-2000. The TDMA may be implemented with a radio technology, such as global system for mobile communications (GSM)/general packet ratio service (GPRS)/enhanced data rate for GSM evolution (EDGE). The OFDMA may be implemented with a radio technology, such as institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), and so on. IEEE 802.16m is an evolved version of IEEE 802.16e and provides backward compatibility with a system based on the IEEE 802.16e. The UTRA is part of a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS). 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) is part of an evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using the E-UTRA. The 3GPP LTE uses the OFDMA in a downlink and uses the SC-FDMA in an uplink. LTE-advanced (LTE-A) is an evolution of the LTE.
5G NR is a successive technology of LTE-A corresponding to a new Clean-slate type mobile communication system having the characteristics of high performance, low latency, high availability, and so on. 5G NR may use resources of all spectrum available for usage including low frequency bands of less than 1 GHz, middle frequency bands ranging from 1 GHz to 10 GHz, high frequency (millimeter waves) of 24 GHz or more, and so on.
For clarity in the description, the following description will mostly focus on LTE-A or 5G NR. However, technical features according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will not be limited only to this.
For terms and techniques not specifically described among terms and techniques used in this specification, a wireless communication standard document published before the present specification is filed may be referred to.
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Layers of a radio interface protocol between the UE and the network can be classified into a first layer (layer 1, L1), a second layer (layer 2, L2), and a third layer (layer 3, L3) based on the lower three layers of the open system interconnection (OSI) model that is well-known in the communication system. Among them, a physical (PHY) layer belonging to the first layer provides an information transfer service by using a physical channel, and a radio resource control (RRC) layer belonging to the third layer serves to control a radio resource between the UE and the network. For this, the RRC layer exchanges an RRC message between the UE and the BS.
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Between different physical layers, i.e., a physical layer of a transmitter and a physical layer of a receiver, data are transferred through the physical channel. The physical channel is modulated using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and utilizes time and frequency as a radio resource.
The MAC layer provides services to a radio link control (RLC) layer, which is a higher layer of the MAC layer, via a logical channel. The MAC layer provides a function of mapping multiple logical channels to multiple transport channels. The MAC layer also provides a function of logical channel multiplexing by mapping multiple logical channels to a single transport channel. The MAC layer provides data transfer services over logical channels.
The RLC layer performs concatenation, segmentation, and reassembly of Radio Link Control Service Data Unit (RLC SDU). In order to ensure diverse quality of service (QoS) required by a radio bearer (RB), the RLC layer provides three types of operation modes, i.e., a transparent mode (TM), an unacknowledged mode (UM), and an acknowledged mode (AM). An AM RLC provides error correction through an automatic repeat request (ARQ).
A radio resource control (RRC) layer is defined only in the control plane. The RRC layer serves to control the logical channel, the transport channel, and the physical channel in association with configuration, reconfiguration and release of RBs. The RB is a logical path provided by the first layer (i.e., the physical layer or the PHY layer) and the second layer (i.e., a MAC layer, an RLC layer, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, and a service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) layer) for data delivery between the UE and the network.
Functions of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer in the user plane include user data delivery, header compression, and ciphering. Functions of a PDCP layer in the control plane include control-plane data delivery and ciphering/integrity protection.
A service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) layer is defined only in a user plane. The SDAP layer performs mapping between a Quality of Service (QoS) flow and a data radio bearer (DRB) and QoS flow ID (QFI) marking in both DL and UL packets.
The configuration of the RB implies a process for specifying a radio protocol layer and channel properties to provide a particular service and for determining respective detailed parameters and operations. The RB can be classified into two types, i.e., a signaling RB (SRB) and a data RB (DRB). The SRB is used as a path for transmitting an RRC message in the control plane. The DRB is used as a path for transmitting user data in the user plane.
When an RRC connection is established between an RRC layer of the UE and an RRC layer of the E-UTRAN, the UE is in an RRC_CONNECTED state, and, otherwise, the UE may be in an RRC_IDLE state. In case of the NR, an RRC_INACTIVE state is additionally defined, and a UE being in the RRC_INACTIVE state may maintain its connection with a core network whereas its connection with the BS is released.
Data is transmitted from the network to the UE through a downlink transport channel. Examples of the downlink transport channel include a broadcast channel (BCH) for transmitting system information and a downlink-shared channel (SCH) for transmitting user traffic or control messages. Traffic of downlink multicast or broadcast services or the control messages can be transmitted on the downlink-SCH or an additional downlink multicast channel (MCH). Data is transmitted from the UE to the network through an uplink transport channel. Examples of the uplink transport channel include a random access channel (RACH) for transmitting an initial control message and an uplink SCH for transmitting user traffic or control messages.
Examples of logical channels belonging to a higher channel of the transport channel and mapped onto the transport channels include a broadcast channel (BCCH), a paging control channel (PCCH), a common control channel (CCCH), a multicast control channel (MCCH), a multicast traffic channel (MTCH), etc.
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In case of using a normal CP, each slot may include 14 symbols. In case of using an extended CP, each slot may include 12 symbols. Herein, a symbol may include an OFDM symbol (or CP-OFDM symbol) and a Single Carrier-FDMA (SC-FDMA) symbol (or Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) symbol).
Table 1 shown below represents an example of a number of symbols per slot (Nslotsymb), a number slots per frame (Nframe,uslot), and a number of slots per subframe (Nsubframe,uslot) based on an SCS configuration (u), in a case where a normal CP is used.
Table 2 shows an example of a number of symbols per slot, a number of slots per frame, and a number of slots per subframe based on the SCS, in a case where an extended CP is used.
In an NR system, OFDM(A) numerologies (e.g., SCS, CP length, and so on) between multiple cells being integrate to one UE may be differently configured. Accordingly, a (absolute time) duration (or section) of a time resource (e.g., subframe, slot or TTI) (collectively referred to as a time unit (TU) for simplicity) being configured of the same number of symbols may be differently configured in the integrated cells.
In the NR, multiple numerologies or SCSs for supporting diverse 5G services may be supported. For example, in case an SCS is 15 kHz, a wide area of the conventional cellular bands may be supported, and, in case an SCS is 30 kHz/60 kHz a dense-urban, lower latency, wider carrier bandwidth may be supported. In case the SCS is 60 kHz or higher, a bandwidth that is greater than 24.25 GHz may be used in order to overcome phase noise.
An NR frequency band may be defined as two different types of frequency ranges. The two different types of frequency ranges may be FR1 and FR2. The values of the frequency ranges may be changed (or varied), and, for example, the two different types of frequency ranges may be as shown below in Table 3. Among the frequency ranges that are used in an NR system, FR1 may mean a “sub 6 GHz range”, and FR2 may mean an “above 6 GHz range” and may also be referred to as a millimeter wave (mmW).
As described above, the values of the frequency ranges in the NR system may be changed (or varied). For example, as shown below in Table 4, FR1 may include a band within a range of 410 MHz to 7125 MHz. More specifically, FR1 may include a frequency band of 6 GHz (or 5850, 5900, 5925 MHz, and so on) and higher. For example, a frequency band of 6 GHz (or 5850, 5900, 5925 MHz, and so on) and higher being included in FR1 mat include an unlicensed band. The unlicensed band may be used for diverse purposes, e.g., the unlicensed band for vehicle-specific communication (e.g., automated driving).
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A carrier may include a maximum of N number BWPs (e.g., 5 BWPs). Data communication may be performed via an activated BWP. Each element may be referred to as a Resource Element (RE) within a resource grid and one complex symbol may be mapped to each element.
Hereinafter, a bandwidth part (BWP) and a carrier will be described.
The BWP may be a set of consecutive physical resource blocks (PRBs) in a given numerology. The PRB may be selected from consecutive sub-sets of common resource blocks (CRBs) for the given numerology on a given carrier
For example, the BWP may be at least any one of an active BWP, an initial BWP, and/or a default BWP. For example, the UE may not monitor downlink radio link quality in a DL BWP other than an active DL BWP on a primary cell (PCell). For example, the UE may not receive PDCCH, physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), or channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) (excluding RRM) outside the active DL BWP. For example, the UE may not trigger a channel state information (CSI) report for the inactive DL BWP. For example, the UE may not transmit physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) outside an active UL BWP. For example, in a downlink case, the initial BWP may be given as a consecutive RB set for a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) control resource set (CORESET) (configured by physical broadcast channel (PBCH)). For example, in an uplink case, the initial BWP may be given by system information block (SIB) for a random access procedure. For example, the default BWP may be configured by a higher layer. For example, an initial value of the default BWP may be an initial DL BWP. For energy saving, if the UE fails to detect downlink control information (DCI) during a specific period, the UE may switch the active BWP of the UE to the default BWP.
Meanwhile, the BWP may be defined for SL. The same SL BWP may be used in transmission and reception. For example, a transmitting UE may transmit an SL channel or an SL signal on a specific BWP, and a receiving UE may receive the SL channel or the SL signal on the specific BWP. In a licensed carrier, the SL BWP may be defined separately from a Uu BWP, and the SL BWP may have configuration signaling separate from the Uu BWP. For example, the UE may receive a configuration for the SL BWP from the BS/network. For example, the ULE may receive a configuration for the Uu BWP from the BS/network. The SL BWP may be (pre-)configured in a carrier with respect to an out-of-coverage NR V2X UE and an RRC_IDLE UE. For the UE in the RRC_CONNECTED mode, at least one SL BWP may be activated in the carrier.
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The BWP may be configured by a point A, an offset NstartBWP from the point A, and a bandwidth NsizeBWP. For example, the point A may be an external reference point of a PRB of a carrier in which a subcarrier 0 of all numerologies (e.g., all numerologies supported by a network on that carrier) is aligned. For example, the offset may be a PRB interval between a lowest subcarrier and the point A in a given numerology. For example, the bandwidth may be the number of PRBs in the given numerology.
Hereinafter, V2X or SL communication will be described.
A sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) may include a primary sidelink synchronization signal (PSSS) and a secondary sidelink synchronization signal (SSSS), as an SL-specific sequence. The PSSS may be referred to as a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS), and the SSSS may be referred to as a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS). For example, length-127 M-sequences may be used for the S-PSS, and length-127 gold sequences may be used for the S-SSS. For example, a UE may use the S-PSS for initial signal detection and for synchronization acquisition. For example, the UE may use the S-PSS and the S-SSS for acquisition of detailed synchronization and for detection of a synchronization signal ID.
A physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) may be a (broadcast) channel for transmitting default (system) information which must be first known by the UE before SL signal transmission/reception. For example, the default information may be information related to SLSS, a duplex mode (DM), a time division duplex (TDD) uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration, information related to a resource pool, a type of an application related to the SLSS, a subframe offset, broadcast information, or the like. For example, for evaluation of PSBCH performance, in NR V2X, a payload size of the PSBCH may be 56 bits including 24-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC).
The S-PSS, the S-SSS, and the PSBCH may be included in a block format (e.g., SL synchronization signal (SS)/PSBCH block, hereinafter, sidelink-synchronization signal block (S-SSB)) supporting periodical transmission. The S-SSB may have the same numerology (i.e., SCS and CP length) as a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH)/physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) in a carrier, and a transmission bandwidth may exist within a (pre-)configured sidelink (SL) BWP. For example, the S-SSB may have a bandwidth of 11 resource blocks (RBs). For example, the PSBCH may exist across 11 RBs. In addition, a frequency position of the S-SSB may be (pre-)configured. Accordingly, the UE does not have to perform hypothesis detection at frequency to discover the S-SSB in the carrier.
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For example, the first UE may receive information related to dynamic grant (DG) resource(s) and/or information related to configured grant (CG) resource(s) from the base station. For example, the CG resource(s) may include CG type 1 resource(s) or CG type 2 resource(s). In the present disclosure, the DG resource(s) may be resource(s) configured/allocated by the base station to the first UE through a downlink control information (DCI). In the present disclosure, the CG resource(s) may be (periodic) resource(s) configured/allocated by the base station to the first UE through a DCI and/or an RRC message. For example, in the case of the CG type 1 resource(s), the base station may transmit an RRC message including information related to CG resource(s) to the first UE. For example, in the case of the CG type 2 resource(s), the base station may transmit an RRC message including information related to CG resource(s) to the first UE, and the base station may transmit a DCI related to activation or release of the CG resource(s) to the first UE.
In step S610, the first UE may transmit a PSCCH (e.g., sidelink control information (SCI) or 1st-stage SCI) to a second UE based on the resource scheduling. In step S620, the first UE may transmit a PSSCH (e.g., 2nd-stage SCI, MAC PDU, data, etc.) related to the PSCCH to the second UE. In step S630, the first UE may receive a PSFCH related to the PSCCH/PSSCH from the second UE. For example, HARQ feedback information (e.g., NACK information or ACK information) may be received from the second UE through the PSFCH. In step S640, the first UE may transmit/report HARQ feedback information to the base station through the PUCCH or the PUSCH. For example, the HARQ feedback information reported to the base station may be information generated by the first UE based on the HARQ feedback information received from the second UE. For example, the HARQ feedback information reported to the base station may be information generated by the first UE based on a pre-configured rule. For example, the DCI may be a DCI for SL scheduling. For example, a format of the DCI may be a DCI format 3_0 or a DCI format 3_1.
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Hereinafter, an example of SCI format 1-A will be described.
SCI format 1-A is used for the scheduling of PSSCH and 2nd-stage-SCI on PSSCH.
The following information is transmitted by means of the SCI format 1-A:
Priority—3 Bits
Hereinafter, an example of SCI format 2-A will be described.
SCI format 2-A is used for the decoding of PSSCH, with HARQ operation when HARQ-ACK information includes ACK or NACK, when HARQ-ACK information includes only NACK, or when there is no feedback of HARQ-ACK information.
The following information is transmitted by means of the SCI format 2-A:
Hereinafter, an example of SCI format 2-B will be described.
SCI format 2-B is used for the decoding of PSSCH, with HARQ operation when HARQ-ACK information includes only NACK, or when there is no feedback of HARQ-ACK information.
The following information is transmitted by means of the SCI format 2-B:
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Hereinafter, a UE procedure for determining a subset of resources to be reported to a higher layer in PSSCH resource selection in sidelink resource allocation mode 2 will be described.
In resource allocation mode 2, the higher layer can request the UE to determine a subset of resources from which the higher layer will select resources for PSSCH/PSCCH transmission. To trigger this procedure, in slot n, the higher layer provides the following parameters for this PSSCH/PSCCH transmission:
The following higher layer parameters affect this procedure:
sl-SelectionWindowList: internal parameter T2min is set to the corresponding value from higher layer parameter sl-SelectionWindowList for the given value of prioTX.
The resource reservation interval, Prsvp_TX, if provided, is converted from units of msec to units of logical slots, resulting in Prsvp_TX′.
Notation:
(t′0SL, t1SL, t2SL, . . . ) may denote the set of slots which belongs to the sidelink resource pool.
For example, a UE may select a set of candidate resources (Sa) based on Table 8. For example, when resource (re)selection is triggered, a UE may select a candidate resource set (Sa) based on Table 8. For example, when re-evaluation or pre-emption is triggered, a UE may select a candidate resource set (Sa) based on Table 8.
Meanwhile, partial sensing may be supported for power saving of the UE. For example, in LTE SL or LTE V2X, the UE may perform partial sensing based on Tables 9 and 10.
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Meanwhile, SL communication needs to be performed based on aggregated resources (e.g., burst resources) in NR V2X. For example, an aggregated resource be a contiguous set of resources (e.g., a contiguous set of resources in the time domain and/or frequency domain). For example, an aggregated resources may be a set of resources with an interval within a threshold value (e.g., a set of resources spaced apart within a threshold in the time domain and/or frequency domain). Hereinafter, the reason why aggregated resource-based SL communication is required in NR V2X will be described in detail.
For example, unlike LTE V2X, aperiodic transmission is supported in NR V2X. Compared to periodic transmission, aperiodic transmission has a high possibility of transmission failure due to channel congestion or the like within a packet delay budget (PDB) of a packet from the time of packet generation. Accordingly, a UE may perform burst transmission by selecting aggregated resources for aperiodic transmission, thereby maximizing the transmission success probability within the PDB.
For example, unlike LTE V2X, in NR V2X, packets with strict delay requirements need to be transmitted. Table 11 shows the mapping between Standardized PQI and QoS characteristics.
Referring to Table 11, the PDB corresponding to PQI 91 is 3 ms. In this case, in the case of 15 kHz, a UE must transmit the corresponding packet within 3 slots. If aggregated resources are not supported, a UE can transmit a packet corresponding to PQI 91 using only one slot, and if the transmission fails, the UE's retransmission opportunity may not be guaranteed. However, if aggregated transmission is supported, a UE can transmit packets corresponding to PQI 91 using 3 consecutive slots, and through this, the transmission success probability can be increased. For convenience of description, the description is based on PQI 91, but the same problem may occur in packets having tight delay requirements, such as PQI 55 and PQI 21.
Meanwhile, aggregated resource selection/reservation may be required to reduce UE power consumption. For example, a UE performing partial sensing or random resource selection (e.g., a power-saving UE) may perform full sensing for a short period of time prior to the selected transmission resource timing (hereinafter referred to as short-term sensing (STS)) in order to avoid resource collision due to aperiodic transmission. For example, since the STS is performed before each selected transmission resource, power consumption of a UE by the STS may increase when the selected resource is temporally distant.
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For example, in order to minimize power consumption of the UE by such an STS, when the UE selects resources based on partial sensing or random selection, the UE selects resources adjacent to each other within a resource selection window. Referring to (b) of
Due to the above reasons, aggregated resource-based SL transmission needs to be allowed in order to reduce power consumption of a UE, ensure reliability of SL communication, and increase resource use efficiency.
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For example, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, continuous partial sensing (CPS) may refer to an operation of sensing all or a part of a time domain given as a specific configuration value. For example, CPS may include a short-term sensing operation in which sensing is performed for a relatively short period.
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In this specification, the wording “configuration or definition” may be interpreted as being (pre)configured (via predefined signaling (e.g., SB, MAC signaling, RRC signaling)) from a base station or network. For example, “A may be configured” may include “a base station or network (pre)configuring/defining or notifying A of a UE”. Alternatively, the wording “configuration or definition” may be interpreted as being previously configured or defined by system. For example, “A may be configured” may include “A is (pre-)configured/defined by system”.
Referring to the standard document, some procedures and technical specifications related to the present disclosure are as follows.
On the other hand, in the existing power saving UE operation, when selecting a candidate resource based on partial sensing, the sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) operation was not considered, as a result, there is a problem in that transmission power required for transmission and reception of the power saving UE is not efficiently used.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, when a power saving UE performs an SL DRX operation, a resource selection window and candidate resource selection method for minimizing transmission/reception power consumption when selecting candidate resources based on partial sensing and a device supporting the same are proposed.
For example, for (or, for each of) at least one among elements/parameters of service type (and/or (LCH or service) priority and/or QOS requirements (e.g., latency, reliability, minimum communication range) and/or PQI parameters) (and/or HARQ feedback enabled (and/or disabled) LCH/MAC PDU (transmission) and/or CBR measurement value of a resource pool and/or SL cast type (e.g., unicast, groupcast, broadcast) and/or SL groupcast HARQ feedback option (e.g., NACK only feedback, ACK/NACK feedback, NACK only feedback based on TX-RX distance) and/or SL mode 1 CG type (e.g., SL CG type 1/2) and/or SL mode type (e.g., mode 1/2) and/or resource pool and/or PSFCH resource configured resource pool and/or source (L2) ID (and/or destination (L2) ID) and/or PC5 RRC connection/link and/or SL link and/or (with base station) connection state (e.g., RRC connected state, IDLE state, inactive state) and/or whether an SL HARQ process (ID) and/or (of a transmitting UE or a receiving UE) performs an SL DRX operation and/or whether it is a power saving (transmitting or receiving) UE and/or (from the perspective of a specific UE) case when PSFCH transmission and PSFCH reception (and/or a plurality of PSFCH transmissions (exceeding UE capability)) overlap (and/or a case where PSFCH transmission (and/or PSFCH reception) is omitted) and/or a case where a receiving UE actually (successfully) receives a PSCCH (and/or PSSCH) (re)transmission from a transmitting UE, etc.), whether the rule is applied (and/or the proposed method/rule-related parameter value of the present disclosure) may be specifically (or differently or independently) configured/allowed. In addition, in the present disclosure, “configuration” (or “designation”) wording may be extended and interpreted as a form in which a base station informs a UE through a predefined (physical layer or higher layer) channel/signal (e.g., SIB, RRC, MAC CE) (and/or a form provided through pre-configuration and/or a form in which a UE informs other UEs through a predefined (physical layer or higher layer) channel/signal (e.g., SL MAC CE, PC5 RRC)), etc. In addition, in this disclosure, the “PSFCH” wording may be extended and interpreted as “(NR or LTE) PSSCH (and/or (NR or LTE) PSCCH) (and/or (NR or LTE) SL SSB (and/or UL channel/signal))”. And, the methods proposed in the present disclosure may be used in combination with each other (in a new type of manner).
For example, the term “specific threshold” below may refer to a threshold value defined in advance or (pre-)configured by a higher layer (including an application layer) of a network, a base station, or a UE. Hereinafter, the term “specific configuration value” may refer to a value defined in advance or (pre-)configured by a higher layer (including an application layer) of a network, a base station, or a UE. Hereinafter, “configured by a network/base station” may mean an operation in which a base station configures (in advance) a UE by higher layer RRC signaling, configures/signals a UE through MAC CE, or signals a UE through DCI.
According to an embodiment, when a power saving UE (P-UE) selects Y candidate slots including candidate resources within a resource selection window for resource selection based on partial sensing, the minimum value or range of the minimum value of Y may be configured or selected to be within a packet delay budget (PDB) of a packet to be transmitted. Alternatively, the minimum value or range of the minimum value of Y may be configured as a specific threshold with a value greater than or equal to the maximum number of retransmissions for a transmission packet, or a UE may select the minimum value of Y or range of the minimum value within the specific threshold.
According to an embodiment, a UE may report the maximum number of retransmissions and/or the remaining number of retransmissions for a transport block (TB) to be transmitted to a base station. In this case, a UE can select the maximum number of retransmissions by implementation from among specific configured values or values (pre-) configured by network, and the UE may report the selected maximum number of retransmissions to a base station. The base station may configure the minimum value of Y based on the maximum number of retransmissions reported from the UE and signal the configured minimum value of Y to the UE.
For example, the minimum value Y may be separately configured or selected depending on whether or not a UE performs burst SL transmission through temporally adjacent or nearby transmission resources. Alternatively, for example, the minimum value or range of the minimum value of Y may be configured or be selected by a UE based on QoS requirements such as priority, latency, distance, and reliability related to transmission packets, cast type, congestion/interference level of a resource pool, whether a UE operates SL DRX, whether there is inter-UE coordination, in-coverage (IC)/out-of-coverage (OOC) operation status, the total number of retransmissions/remaining number of retransmissions for transmission packets, etc.
According to an embodiment, when a transmitting UE performs partial sensing-based resource selection allowed/configured in a (transmitting) resource pool and a receiving UE performs an SL DRX operation allowed/configured in a resource pool, the resource selection window of the transmitting UE may be configured to fully or partially overlap with an SL DRX on-duration or active time used by the receiving UE or configured in a (receiving) resource pool. As described above, when the resource selection window and the on-duration or active time overlap each other, a front part of the resource selection window may overlap the on-duration or active time. That is, when the resource selection window of the transmitting UE is configured to the interval [n+T1, n+T2], for a T3 value that is less than or equal to T2, the interval [n+T1, n+T3] may be included in the on-duration or active time configured in the receiving UE or resource pool. For example, the T3 value may be configured to a specific threshold value, may be determined by UE implementation within a specific threshold value, or may be determined by UE implementation within a range that satisfies the condition of T3<T2.
According to an embodiment, an SL DRX cycle of a UE may be configured to coincide with a transmission resource period configured in the resource pool or to be a multiple of the transmission resource period. For example, when one or more transmission resource periods are configured in the resource pool, an SL DRX cycle may be configured to be a common multiple or least common multiple of all resource transmission periods or some resource transmission periods. For example, for resource transmission periods not included in the common multiple or least common multiple relationship, the transmission time according to the resource transmission period may be configured to be included in the on-duration or active time, or the resource transmission time may be configured to be included in the separate active time by generating a separate active time, when the on-duration or active time of an SL DRX cycle is extended by an inactivity timer, etc.
According to an embodiment, when a transmitting UE performing partial sensing-based resource selection selects Y candidate slots within a resource selection window, X number of candidate slots less than or equal to Y may be configured by a UE implementation or (pre-)configured by a higher layer or network to be included in an SL DRX on-duration or active time used by a receiving UE or configured in a resource pool. For example, the ratio of the number of candidate resources to be applied to an SL DRX off-duration or inactive time period to the number of candidate resources to be applied to an SL DRX on-duration or active time period may be configured to a specific configuration value or may be determined by a UE implementation within a specific threshold value. For example, the X candidate slots may be selected such that a ratio of the X candidate slots within the Y candidate slots is equal to or greater than a specific threshold value. For example, the specific threshold may be pre-configured for a transmitting UE or may be signaled from a base station/network.
For example, at this time, the X value or the ratio of the number of candidate resources to be applied to an SL DRX off-duration or inactive time period to the number of candidate resources to be applied to an SL DRX on-duration or active time period may be configured separately according to QoS requirements such as delay/reliability/distance related to transmission packets, a service/packet priority, a cast type, the congestion/interference level of a resource pool, transmit power level, whether it is a HARQ enabled/disabled MAC PDU transmission, the HARQ ACK/NACK ratio, the number of (continuous) HARQ NACK receptions, whether it is an SL DRX operation, whether it is a inter-UE-coordinating UE or inter-UE-coordinated UE, whether it is a relaying UE or a remote UE, a sync selection priority of a reference sync signal of a UE, the MCS size/number of layers, CSI, the remaining battery power amount of a UE, the PDB of remaining transmission packets, the maximum number of retransmissions for packets, the number of remaining retransmissions, whether a peer UE is a P-UE, the SL DRX cycle length, the SL DRX on-duration length, the ratio of SL DRX cycle length to an SL DRX on-duration, the number of initial transmissions and blind retransmissions to be transmitted during an SL DRX on-duration or an active time period.
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According to an embodiment, when the number of the idle resources included in the SL DRX on-duration or active time period is less than the X value among valid idle resources remaining after excluding resources based on partial sensing within a resource selection window during a resource selection process by a transmitting UE, a specific threshold value related to RSRP used to select valid idle resources may be increased by a specific configuration value related to RSRP offset (e.g., 3 dB). For example, as described above, in an operation of making the number of idle resources included in the SL DRX on-duration or active time period finally greater than or equal to the X value by continuing to increase the RSRP-related specific threshold, the above process may be repeatedly performed.
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According to an embodiment, in a transmission resource selection procedure, a specific threshold value related to RSRP and a specific configuration value related to RSRP offset to be applied to an SL DRX on-duration or active time period may be configured differently from a specific threshold value related to RSRP and a specific configuration value related to RSRP offset to be applied to an SL DRX off-duration or inactive time period. For example, a specific threshold value related to RSRP and specific configuration value related to RSRP offset to be applied to an SL DRX on-duration or active time period may be configured to be greater than a specific threshold value related to RSRP and a specific configuration value related to RSRP offset to be applied to an SL DRX off-duration or inactive time period.
According to an embodiment, the target ratio of valid idle resources to total resources to be applied to an SL DRX on-duration or active time period may be configured separately from the target ratio of valid idle resources to total resources to be applied to an SL DRX off-duration or inactive time period.
According to an embodiment, if the number of candidate slots (Y) to be selected for a UE performing partial sensing is configured, when a UE excludes a resource based on partial sensing and selects a valid idle resource, the UE may preferentially select a valid idle resource included in an interval overlapping with an SL DRX on-duration or active time within a resource selection window period. And, for example, if the number of resources included in the interval overlapping with the SL DRX on-duration or active time does not satisfy the target ratio of valid idle resources to the total resources, the UE may select the remaining valid idle resources in an SL DRX off-duration or inactive time period.
According to an embodiment, if the X value, or the ratio of the number of candidate resources to be applied to an SL DRX off-duration or an inactive time period to the number of candidate resources to be applied to an SL DRX on-duration or active time period is configured to a specific configuration value or determined by a UE implementation within a specific threshold value, if “the number of remaining valid idle resources within an on-duration or active time period” does not satisfy “the X value, or the ratio of the number of candidate resources to be applied to an SL DRX off-duration or an inactive time period to the number of candidate resources to be applied to an SL DRX on-duration or active time period” or “the ratio of total resources to target varid resources configured/determined in SL DRX on-duration or active time period” in a transmission resource selection procedure, a UE may increase the RSRP-related specific threshold configured for an SL DRX on-duration or active time period by a specific configuration value related to an RSRP offset (e.g., 3 dB). At this time, for example, the specific configuration value related to the RSRP offset may be configured or determined only for an SL DRX on-duration or active time period separately from the value applied to an SL DRX off-duration or inactive time period.
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, the proposed resource selection window and candidate resource selection method has an effect of minimizing transmission and reception power consumption of a power saving UE performing an SL DRX operation in an NR-V2X system.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the power saving effect of a transmitting UE may be improved by selecting candidate resources for resource selection based on PPS. In addition, since it is ensured that resources of a certain ratio or more of the candidate resources selected based on the PPS exist within an SL DRX active time of a receiving UE, the receiving UE can perform smoother SL reception based on the candidate resource.
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For example, selecting the X candidate resources may include: selecting Y candidate slots within the selection window; selecting Z or more candidate slots included within the active time among the Y candidate slots; and selecting the X candidate resources based on the sensing, among at least one resource included in the Z or more candidate slots.
For example, the Z may be greater than or equal to the X.
For example, additionally, the first device may obtain a first threshold related to ratio of the X compared to a total number of resources included in the Y candidate slots. For example, the Z or more candidate slots may be selected such that the ratio of the X compared to the total number of resources included in the Y candidate slots is greater than or equal to the first threshold.
For example, the first threshold may be determined based on at least one of a quality of service (QoS) requirement, a priority related to the MAC PDU, congestion level of a resource pool, or remaining packet delay budget (PDB) related to the MAC PDU.
For example, additionally, the first device may obtain a minimum number of resources included within the active time of the SL DRX configuration. For example, the X candidate resources may be greater than or equal to the minimum number.
For example, selecting the X candidate resources may include: increasing a second threshold related to reference signal received power (RSRP) related to the active time of the SL DRX configuration, based on a number of candidate resources included within the active time of the SL DRX configuration, selected based on the sensing, being less than the minimum number. For example, the X candidate resources may be selected based on the sensing and the second threshold, and the second threshold may be increased such that a number of resources included within the active time of the SL DRX configuration is the X.
For example, the second threshold may be increased by 3 dB at a time.
For example, a slot not including the Z candidate slots among the Y candidate slots may be not included within the active time of the SL DRX configuration.
For example, the Y may be determined based on whether the first device performs a burst transmission.
For example, selecting the X candidate resources may include: obtaining a target value related to a number of candidate resources within the selection window; selecting Y candidate slots within the selection window; and selecting N candidate resources among at least one resource included in the Y candidate slots, based on the sensing and a threshold related to RSRP. For example, the N may be greater than or equal to the target value, and the N candidate resources may include the X candidate resources.
For example, selecting the X candidate resources may include: obtaining a first target value related to a number of candidate resources within the selection window and a second target value related to a number of candidate resources within the active time; selecting Y candidate slots within the selection window; selecting N candidate resources among at least one resource included in the Y candidate slots, based on the sensing and a first threshold related to RSRP, wherein the N may be greater than or equal to the first target value; and selecting X candidate resources among at least one resource included in Z candidate slots based on the sensing and a second threshold related to RSRP, based on a number of resources included within the active time among the N candidate resources being less than the second target value. For example, the Z candidate slots may be slots included within the active time among the Y candidate slots.
For example, an SL DRX cycle of the SL DRX configuration may be an integer multiple of a resource reservation period allowed for a resource pool.
The above-described embodiment may be applied to various devices described below. For example, a processor 102 of a first device 100 may determine a selection window. And, the processor 102 of the first device 100 may select X candidate resources based on sensing within the selection window. For example, the X candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to a second device 200. And, the processor 102 of the first device 100 may select a transmission resource for a transmission of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the X candidate resources. And, the processor 102 of the first device 100 may control a transceiver 106 to transmit, to the second device 200, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on the transmission resource. And, the processor 102 of the first device 100 may control the transceiver 106 to transmit, to the second device 200, the MAC PDU through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a first device for performing wireless communication may be proposed. For example, the first device may comprise: one or more memories storing instructions; one or more transceivers; and one or more processors connected to the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers. For example, the one or more processors may execute the instructions to: determine a selection window; select X candidate resources based on sensing within the selection window, wherein the X candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to a second device; select a transmission resource for a transmission of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the X candidate resources; transmit, to the second device, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on the transmission resource; and transmit, to the second device, the MAC PDU through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource.
For example, the operation of selecting the X candidate resources may include: selecting Y candidate slots within the selection window; selecting Z or more candidate slots included within the active time among the Y candidate slots; and selecting the X candidate resources based on the sensing, among at least one resource included in the Z or more candidate slots.
For example, the Z may be greater than or equal to the X.
For example, additionally, the first device may obtain a first threshold related to ratio of the X compared to a total number of resources included in the Y candidate slots. For example, the Z or more candidate slots may be selected such that the ratio of the X compared to the total number of resources included in the Y candidate slots is greater than or equal to the first threshold.
For example, the first threshold may be determined based on at least one of a quality of service (QoS) requirement, a priority related to the MAC PDU, congestion level of a resource pool, or remaining packet delay budget (PDB) related to the MAC PDU.
For example, additionally, the first device may obtain a minimum number of resources included within the active time of the SL DRX configuration. For example, the X candidate resources may be greater than or equal to the minimum number.
For example, the operation of selecting the X candidate resources may include: increasing a second threshold related to reference signal received power (RSRP) related to the active time of the SL DRX configuration, based on a number of candidate resources included within the active time of the SL DRX configuration, selected based on the sensing, being less than the minimum number. For example, the X candidate resources may be selected based on the sensing and the second threshold, and the second threshold may be increased such that a number of resources included within the active time of the SL DRX configuration is the X.
For example, the second threshold may be increased by 3 dB at a time.
For example, a slot not including the Z candidate slots among the Y candidate slots may be not included within the active time of the SL DRX configuration.
For example, the Y may be determined based on whether the first device performs a burst transmission.
For example, the operation of selecting the X candidate resources may include: obtaining a target value related to a number of candidate resources within the selection window; selecting Y candidate slots within the selection window; and selecting N candidate resources among at least one resource included in the Y candidate slots, based on the sensing and a threshold related to RSRP. For example, the N may be greater than or equal to the target value, and the N candidate resources may include the X candidate resources.
For example, the operation of selecting the X candidate resources may include: obtaining a first target value related to a number of candidate resources within the selection window and a second target value related to a number of candidate resources within the active time; selecting Y candidate slots within the selection window; selecting N candidate resources among at least one resource included in the Y candidate slots, based on the sensing and a first threshold related to RSRP, wherein the N may be greater than or equal to the first target value; and selecting X candidate resources among at least one resource included in Z candidate slots based on the sensing and a second threshold related to RSRP, based on a number of resources included within the active time among the N candidate resources being less than the second target value. For example, the Z candidate slots may be slots included within the active time among the Y candidate slots.
For example, an SL DRX cycle of the SL DRX configuration may be an integer multiple of a resource reservation period allowed for a resource pool.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a device adapted to control a first user equipment (UE) may be proposed. For example, the device may comprise: one or more processors; and one or more memories operably connectable to the one or more processors and storing instructions. For example, the one or more processors may execute the instructions to: determine a selection window; select X candidate resources based on sensing within the selection window, wherein the X candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to a second UE; select a transmission resource for a transmission of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the X candidate resources; transmit, to the second UE, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on the transmission resource; and transmit, to the second UE, the MAC PDU through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions may be proposed. For example, the instructions, when executed, may cause a first device to: determine a selection window; select X candidate resources based on sensing within the selection window, wherein the X candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to a second device; select a transmission resource for a transmission of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on the X candidate resources; transmit, to the second device, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on the transmission resource; and transmit, to the second device, the MAC PDU through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource.
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For example, the sensing may be performed on resources prior to an integer multiple of a resource reservation period allowed in a resource pool from the Y candidate resources.
The above-described embodiment may be applied to various devices described below. For example, a processor 202 of a second device 200 may control a transceiver 206 to receive, from a first device 100, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on a transmission resource. And, the processor 202 of the second device 200 may control the transceiver 206 to receive, from the first device 100, a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource, wherein the transmission may be selected in Y candidate resources. For example, X candidate resources among the Y candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to the second device, and the Y candidate resources may be selected based on sensing within a selection window.
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a second device for performing wireless communication may be proposed. For example, the second device may comprise: one or more memories storing instructions; one or more transceivers; and one or more processors connected to the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers. For example, the one or more processors may execute the instructions to: receive, from a first device, sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), based on a transmission resource; and receive, from the first device, a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) through the PSSCH, based on the transmission resource, wherein the transmission may be selected in Y candidate resources, wherein X candidate resources among the Y candidate resources may be included within an active time of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration related to the second device, and wherein the Y candidate resources may be selected based on sensing within a selection window.
For example, the sensing may be performed on resources prior to an integer multiple of a resource reservation period allowed in a resource pool from the Y candidate resources.
Various embodiments of the present disclosure may be combined with each other.
Hereinafter, device(s) to which various embodiments of the present disclosure can be applied will be described.
The various descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts of the present disclosure described in this document may be applied to, without being limited to, a variety of fields requiring wireless communication/connection (e.g., 5G) between devices.
Hereinafter, a description will be given in more detail with reference to the drawings. In the following drawings/description, the same reference symbols may denote the same or corresponding hardware blocks, software blocks, or functional blocks unless described otherwise.
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Here, wireless communication technology implemented in wireless devices 100a to 100f of the present disclosure may include Narrowband Internet of Things for low-power communication in addition to LTE, NR, and 6G. In this case, for example, NB-IoT technology may be an example of Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technology and may be implemented as standards such as LTE Cat NB1, and/or LTE Cat NB2, and is not limited to the name described above. Additionally or alternatively, the wireless communication technology implemented in the wireless devices 100a to 100f of the present disclosure may perform communication based on LTE-M technology. In this case, as an example, the LTE-M technology may be an example of the LPWAN and may be called by various names including enhanced Machine Type Communication (eMTC), and the like. For example, the LTE-M technology may be implemented as at least any one of various standards such as 1) LTE CAT 0, 2) LTE Cat M1, 3) LTE Cat M2, 4) LTE non-Bandwidth Limited (non-BL), 5) LTE-MTC, 6) LTE Machine Type Communication, and/or 7) LTE M, and is not limited to the name described above. Additionally or alternatively, the wireless communication technology implemented in the wireless devices 100a to 100f of the present disclosure may include at least one of Bluetooth, Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN), and ZigBee considering the low-power communication, and is not limited to the name described above. As an example, the ZigBee technology may generate personal area networks (PAN) related to small/low-power digital communication based on various standards including IEEE 802.15.4, and the like, and may be called by various names.
The wireless devices 100a to 100f may be connected to the network 300 via the BSs 200. An AI technology may be applied to the wireless devices 100a to 100f and the wireless devices 100a to 100f may be connected to the AI server 400 via the network 300. The network 300 may be configured using a 3G network, a 4G (e.g., LTE) network, or a 5G (e.g., NR) network. Although the wireless devices 100a to 100f may communicate with each other through the BSs 200/network 300, the wireless devices 100a to 100f may perform direct communication (e.g., sidelink communication) with each other without passing through the BSs/network. For example, the vehicles 100b-1 and 100b-2 may perform direct communication (e.g. Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V)/Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication). The IoT device (e.g., a sensor) may perform direct communication with other IoT devices (e.g., sensors) or other wireless devices 100a to 100f.
Wireless communication/connections 150a, 150b, or 150c may be established between the wireless devices 100a to 100f/BS 200, or BS 200/BS 200. Herein, the wireless communication/connections may be established through various RATs (e.g., 5G NR) such as uplink/downlink communication 150a, sidelink communication 150b (or, D2D communication), or inter BS communication (e.g. relay, Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB)). The wireless devices and the BSs/the wireless devices may transmit/receive radio signals to/from each other through the wireless communication/connections 150a and 150b. For example, the wireless communication/connections 150a and 150b may transmit/receive signals through various physical channels. To this end, at least a part of various configuration information configuring processes, various signal processing processes (e.g., channel encoding/decoding, modulation/demodulation, and resource mapping/demapping), and resource allocating processes, for transmitting/receiving radio signals, may be performed based on the various proposals of the present disclosure.
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The first wireless device 100 may include one or more processors 102 and one or more memories 104 and additionally further include one or more transceivers 106 and/or one or more antennas 108. The processor(s) 102 may control the memory(s) 104 and/or the transceiver(s) 106 and may be configured to implement the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document. For example, the processor(s) 102 may process information within the memory(s) 104 to generate first information/signals and then transmit radio signals including the first information/signals through the transceiver(s) 106. The processor(s) 102 may receive radio signals including second information/signals through the transceiver 106 and then store information obtained by processing the second information/signals in the memory(s) 104. The memory(s) 104 may be connected to the processor(s) 102 and may store a variety of information related to operations of the processor(s) 102. For example, the memory(s) 104 may store software code including commands for performing a part or the entirety of processes controlled by the processor(s) 102 or for performing the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document. Herein, the processor(s) 102 and the memory(s) 104 may be a part of a communication modem/circuit/chip designed to implement RAT (e.g., LTE or NR). The transceiver(s) 106 may be connected to the processor(s) 102 and transmit and/or receive radio signals through one or more antennas 108. Each of the transceiver(s) 106 may include a transmitter and/or a receiver. The transceiver(s) 106 may be interchangeably used with Radio Frequency (RF) unit(s). In the present disclosure, the wireless device may represent a communication modem/circuit/chip.
The second wireless device 200 may include one or more processors 202 and one or more memories 204 and additionally further include one or more transceivers 206 and/or one or more antennas 208. The processor(s) 202 may control the memory(s) 204 and/or the transceiver(s) 206 and may be configured to implement the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document. For example, the processor(s) 202 may process information within the memory(s) 204 to generate third information/signals and then transmit radio signals including the third information/signals through the transceiver(s) 206. The processor(s) 202 may receive radio signals including fourth information/signals through the transceiver(s) 106 and then store information obtained by processing the fourth information/signals in the memory(s) 204. The memory(s) 204 may be connected to the processor(s) 202 and may store a variety of information related to operations of the processor(s) 202. For example, the memory(s) 204 may store software code including commands for performing a part or the entirety of processes controlled by the processor(s) 202 or for performing the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document. Herein, the processor(s) 202 and the memory(s) 204 may be a part of a communication modem/circuit/chip designed to implement RAT (e.g., LTE or NR). The transceiver(s) 206 may be connected to the processor(s) 202 and transmit and/or receive radio signals through one or more antennas 208. Each of the transceiver(s) 206 may include a transmitter and/or a receiver. The transceiver(s) 206 may be interchangeably used with RF unit(s). In the present disclosure, the wireless device may represent a communication modem/circuit/chip.
Hereinafter, hardware elements of the wireless devices 100 and 200 will be described more specifically. One or more protocol layers may be implemented by, without being limited to, one or more processors 102 and 202. For example, the one or more processors 102 and 202 may implement one or more layers (e.g., functional layers such as PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, and SDAP). The one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate one or more Protocol Data Units (PDUs) and/or one or more Service Data Unit (SDUs) according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate messages, control information, data, or information according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate signals (e.g., baseband signals) including PDUs, SDUs, messages, control information, data, or information according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document and provide the generated signals to the one or more transceivers 106 and 206. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may receive the signals (e.g., baseband signals) from the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 and acquire the PDUs, SDUs, messages, control information, data, or information according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document.
The one or more processors 102 and 202 may be referred to as controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or microcomputers. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may be implemented by hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof. As an example, one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), one or more Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), one or more Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), one or more Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), or one or more Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) may be included in the one or more processors 102 and 202. The descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document may be implemented using firmware or software and the firmware or software may be configured to include the modules, procedures, or functions. Firmware or software configured to perform the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document may be included in the one or more processors 102 and 202 or stored in the one or more memories 104 and 204 so as to be driven by the one or more processors 102 and 202. The descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document may be implemented using firmware or software in the form of code, commands, and/or a set of commands.
The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 and store various types of data, signals, messages, information, programs, code, instructions, and/or commands. The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be configured by Read-Only Memories (ROMs), Random Access Memories (RAMs), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EPROMs), flash memories, hard drives, registers, cash memories, computer-readable storage media, and/or combinations thereof. The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be located at the interior and/or exterior of the one or more processors 102 and 202. The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 through various technologies such as wired or wireless connection.
The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may transmit user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in the methods and/or operational flowcharts of this document, to one or more other devices. The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receive user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document, from one or more other devices. For example, the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 and transmit and receive radio signals. For example, the one or more processors 102 and 202 may perform control so that the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may transmit user data, control information, or radio signals to one or more other devices. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may perform control so that the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receive user data, control information, or radio signals from one or more other devices. The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be connected to the one or more antennas 108 and 208 and the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be configured to transmit and receive user data, control information, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document, through the one or more antennas 108 and 208. In this document, the one or more antennas may be a plurality of physical antennas or a plurality of logical antennas (e.g., antenna ports). The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may convert received radio signals/channels etc. from RF band signals into baseband signals in order to process received user data, control information, radio signals/channels, etc. using the one or more processors 102 and 202. The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may convert the user data, control information, radio signals/channels, etc. processed using the one or more processors 102 and 202 from the base band signals into the RF band signals. To this end, the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may include (analog) oscillators and/or filters.
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Codewords may be converted into radio signals via the signal processing circuit 1000 of
Specifically, the codewords may be converted into scrambled bit sequences by the scramblers 1010. Scramble sequences used for scrambling may be generated based on an initialization value, and the initialization value may include ID information of a wireless device. The scrambled bit sequences may be modulated to modulation symbol sequences by the modulators 1020. A modulation scheme may include pi/2-Binary Phase Shift Keying (pi/2-BPSK), m-Phase Shift Keying (m-PSK), and m-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (m-QAM). Complex modulation symbol sequences may be mapped to one or more transport layers by the layer mapper 1030. Modulation symbols of each transport layer may be mapped (precoded) to corresponding antenna port(s) by the precoder 1040. Outputs z of the precoder 1040 may be obtained by multiplying outputs y of the layer mapper 1030 by an N*M precoding matrix W. Herein, N is the number of antenna ports and M is the number of transport layers. The precoder 1040 may perform precoding after performing transform precoding (e.g., DFT) for complex modulation symbols. Alternatively, the precoder 1040 may perform precoding without performing transform precoding.
The resource mappers 1050 may map modulation symbols of each antenna port to time-frequency resources. The time-frequency resources may include a plurality of symbols (e.g., a CP-OFDMA symbols and DFT-s-OFDMA symbols) in the time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in the frequency domain. The signal generators 1060 may generate radio signals from the mapped modulation symbols and the generated radio signals may be transmitted to other devices through each antenna. For this purpose, the signal generators 1060 may include Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) modules, Cyclic Prefix (CP) inserters, Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs), and frequency up-converters.
Signal processing procedures for a signal received in the wireless device may be configured in a reverse manner of the signal processing procedures 1010 to 1060 of
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The additional components 140 may be variously configured according to types of wireless devices. For example, the additional components 140 may include at least one of a power unit/battery, input/output (I/O) unit, a driving unit, and a computing unit. The wireless device may be implemented in the form of, without being limited to, the robot (100a of
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The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive signals (e.g., data and control signals) to and from other wireless devices or BSs. The control unit 120 may perform various operations by controlling constituent elements of the hand-held device 100. The control unit 120 may include an Application Processor (AP). The memory unit 130 may store data/parameters/programs/code/commands needed to drive the hand-held device 100. The memory unit 130 may store input/output data/information. The power supply unit 140a may supply power to the hand-held device 100 and include a wired/wireless charging circuit, a battery, etc. The interface unit 140b may support connection of the hand-held device 100 to other external devices. The interface unit 140b may include various ports (e.g., an audio I/O port and a video I/O port) for connection with external devices. The I/O unit 140c may input or output video information/signals, audio information/signals, data, and/or information input by a user. The I/O unit 140c may include a camera, a microphone, a user input unit, a display unit 140d, a speaker, and/or a haptic module.
As an example, in the case of data communication, the I/O unit 140c may acquire information/signals (e.g., touch, text, voice, images, or video) input by a user and the acquired information/signals may be stored in the memory unit 130. The communication unit 110 may convert the information/signals stored in the memory into radio signals and transmit the converted radio signals to other wireless devices directly or to a BS. The communication unit 110 may receive radio signals from other wireless devices or the BS and then restore the received radio signals into original information/signals. The restored information/signals may be stored in the memory unit 130 and may be output as various types (e.g., text, voice, images, video, or haptic) through the I/O unit 140c.
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The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive signals (e.g., data and control signals) to and from external devices such as other vehicles, BSs (e.g., gNBs and road side units), and servers. The control unit 120 may perform various operations by controlling elements of the vehicle or the autonomous vehicle 100. The control unit 120 may include an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). The driving unit 140a may cause the vehicle or the autonomous vehicle 100 to drive on a road. The driving unit 140a may include an engine, a motor, a powertrain, a wheel, a brake, a steering device, etc. The power supply unit 140b may supply power to the vehicle or the autonomous vehicle 100 and include a wired/wireless charging circuit, a battery, etc. The sensor unit 140c may acquire a vehicle state, ambient environment information, user information, etc. The sensor unit 140c may include an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor, a collision sensor, a wheel sensor, a speed sensor, a slope sensor, a weight sensor, a heading sensor, a position module, a vehicle forward/backward sensor, a battery sensor, a fuel sensor, a tire sensor, a steering sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, an illumination sensor, a pedal position sensor, etc. The autonomous driving unit 140d may implement technology for maintaining a lane on which a vehicle is driving, technology for automatically adjusting speed, such as adaptive cruise control, technology for autonomously driving along a determined path, technology for driving by automatically setting a path if a destination is set, and the like.
For example, the communication unit 110 may receive map data, traffic information data, etc. from an external server. The autonomous driving unit 140d may generate an autonomous driving path and a driving plan from the obtained data. The control unit 120 may control the driving unit 140a such that the vehicle or the autonomous vehicle 100 may move along the autonomous driving path according to the driving plan (e.g., speed/direction control). In the middle of autonomous driving, the communication unit 110 may aperiodically/periodically acquire recent traffic information data from the external server and acquire surrounding traffic information data from neighboring vehicles. In the middle of autonomous driving, the sensor unit 140c may obtain a vehicle state and/or surrounding environment information. The autonomous driving unit 140d may update the autonomous driving path and the driving plan based on the newly obtained data/information. The communication unit 110 may transfer information about a vehicle position, the autonomous driving path, and/or the driving plan to the external server. The external server may predict traffic information data using AI technology, etc., based on the information collected from vehicles or autonomous vehicles and provide the predicted traffic information data to the vehicles or the autonomous vehicles.
Claims in the present description can be combined in a various way. For instance, technical features in method claims of the present description can be combined to be implemented or performed in an apparatus, and technical features in apparatus claims can be combined to be implemented or performed in a method. Further, technical features in method claim(s) and apparatus claim(s) can be combined to be implemented or performed in an apparatus. Further, technical features in method claim(s) and apparatus claim(s) can be combined to be implemented or performed in a method.
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