Beam training for sidelink (SL) configured with discontinuous reception (DRX)

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11770168-B2
Application number	US-202117162784-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2021
Priority date	Feb 28, 2020
Publication date	Sep 26, 2023
Grant date	Sep 26, 2023

Abstract

Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a first user-equipment (UE). The method generally includes applying a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for the first UE, monitoring for first signaling from a second UE indicating that the second UE has data to send to the first UE, the first signaling being transmitted using a plurality of transmit beams during a DRX cycle of the DRX configuration, selecting one or more transmit beams of the plurality of transmit beams based on the monitoring of the first signaling, and communicating in accordance with the selection.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for wireless communication by a first user-equipment (UE), comprising:
applying a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for the first UE;
monitoring for first signaling from a second UE indicating that the second UE has data to send to the first UE, the first signaling being transmitted using a plurality of transmit beams during a DRX cycle of the DRX configuration;
selecting one or more transmit beams of the plurality of transmit beams based on the monitoring of the first signaling; and
communicating in accordance with the selection, wherein:
the first signaling is transmitted by the second UE and a third UE;
the first signaling transmitted from the second UE comprises a sequence indicating an identifier (ID) associated with the first UE and the second UE; and
the first signaling transmitted from the third UE comprises a sequence indicating an ID associated with the first UE and the third UE.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first signaling transmitted using each of the plurality of transmit beams is monitored for using one of a plurality of receive beams.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first signaling is transmitted during a beginning of an awake phase of the DRX cycle.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, via a first receive beam, the first signaling transmitted using a first transmit beam of the plurality of transmit beams; and
transmitting second signaling via a transmit beam corresponding to the first receive beam, the second signaling being transmitted during a transmission occasion configured for the first transmit beam, wherein the communication is based on the first receive beam.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the communicating comprises communicating on sidelink channels with the second UE and a third UE based on the first transmit beam and the first receive beam, wherein transmission occasions of the sidelink channels are randomly selected.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the communicating comprises communicating on a first sidelink channel with the second UE and on a second sidelink channel with a third UE, the first sidelink channel and the second sidelink channel identifying the second UE and the third UE, respectively.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, via a first receive beam, the first signaling transmitted using a first transmit beam of the plurality of transmit beams;
receiving, via a second receive beam, the first signaling transmitted using a second transmit beam of the plurality of transmit beams;
transmitting second signaling via a transmit beam corresponding to the first receive beam and during a transmission occasion configured for the first transmit beam; and
transmitting third signaling via a transmit beam corresponding to the second receive beam and during a transmission occasion configured for the second transmit beam.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
communicating with the second UE based on the first receive beam; and
communicating with the third UE based on the second receive beam.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first signaling is monitored for during a first DRX cycle of the DRX configuration, and wherein the first signaling is monitored via a receive beam used to receive signals during a previous DRX cycle of the DRX configuration.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein monitoring for the first signaling comprises:
monitoring for the first signaling using a broad beam; and
monitoring for the first signaling using a narrow beam if the first signaling is not received while monitoring using the broad beam.

11. A method for wireless communication by a first user-equipment (UE), comprising:
transmitting first signaling to a second UE if the first UE has data to send to the second UE, the first signaling being transmitted using a plurality of transmit beams during a DRX cycle of a DRX configuration of the second UE;
receiving an indication of one or more transmit beams of the plurality of transmit beams; and
communicating in accordance with the received indication, wherein:
the first signaling is transmitted to the second UE and a third UE;
the first signaling transmitted to the second UE comprises a sequence indicating an identifier (ID) associated with the first UE and the second UE; and
the first signaling transmitted to the third UE comprises a sequence indicating an ID associated with the first UE and the third UE.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first signaling transmitted using each of the plurality of transmit beams is monitored for by the second UE using one of a plurality of receive beams.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first signaling is transmitted during a beginning of an awake phase of the DRX cycle of the second UE.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising transmitting the first signaling using a first transmit beam of the plurality of transmitted beams, wherein receiving the indication of the one or more transmit beams comprises receiving second signaling via a receive beam corresponding to the first transmit beam, wherein the communication is based on the first transmit beam.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising randomly selecting transmission occasions to be used for the communication on sidelink channels with the second UE based on the first transmit beam.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the communicating comprises communicating on a first sidelink channel with the second UE, the first sidelink channel identifying the first UE.

17. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
transmitting the first signaling using a first transmit beam of the plurality of transmit beams; and
transmitting the first signaling using a second transmit beam of the plurality of transmit beams, wherein receiving the indication of the one or more transmit beams comprises:
receiving second signaling via a receive beam corresponding to the first transmit beam; and
receiving the second signaling via a receive beam corresponding to the second transmit beam.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:
communicating with the second UE based on the first transmit beam; and
communicating with the third UE based on the second transmit beam.

19. An apparatus for wireless communication by a first user-equipment (UE), comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the memory and the one or more processors being configured to:
apply a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for the first UE;
monitor for first signaling from a second UE indicating that the second UE has data to send to the first UE, the first signaling being transmitted using a plurality of transmit beams during a DRX cycle of the DRX configuration;
select one or more transmit beams of the plurality of transmit beams based on the monitoring of the first signaling; and
communicate in accordance with the selection, wherein:
the first signaling is transmitted by the second UE and a third UE;
the first signaling transmitted from the second UE comprises a sequence indicating an identifier (ID) associated with the first UE and the second UE; and
the first signaling transmitted from the third UE comprises a sequence indicating an ID associated with the first UE and the third UE.

20. An apparatus for wireless communication by a first user-equipment (UE), comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the memory and the one or more processors being configured to:

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Ding Ling
• Li Junyi
• Akkarakaran Sony
• Ryu Jung Ho
• Luo Tao

Classifications

• H04W76/28 Primary

  Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX] · CPC title

• H04B7/0617 Primary

  for beam forming · CPC title

• H04B7/0408

  using two or more beams, i.e. beam diversity · CPC title

• H04W16/28

  using beam steering · CPC title

• H04B7/088

  using beam selection · CPC title