Sidelink and uplink prioritized cancellation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11770835-B2
Application number	US-202117185316-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2021
Priority date	Feb 28, 2020
Publication date	Sep 26, 2023
Grant date	Sep 26, 2023

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a configured grant that indicates time-frequency resources for a user equipment (UE) to use to transmit sidelink or uplink messages in a wireless communications system. To reduce the amount of low priority traffic that may interfere with higher priority traffic, the base station may configure a threshold probability to allow high priority sidelink transmissions and to cancel low priority transmissions. The base station may transmit a cancellation indication that includes a priority indication instructing the UE to cancel transmissions having a priority less than a priority threshold during the allocated time-frequency resources. Based on transmitting the cancellation indication, the base station may cancel transmissions that have low priority, and the UE may determine whether to transmit (or to refrain from transmitting) one or more messages based on the priority of the message.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving a grant that indicates a set of time-frequency resources configured for sidelink or uplink communications for the UE;
receiving, from a network device, a priority indication comprising a priority threshold, the priority indication instructing the UE to cancel transmissions having a priority less than the priority threshold for at least a portion of the set of time-frequency resources;
determining whether to transmit one or more messages via at least the portion of the set of time-frequency resources based at least in part on the priority indication;
refraining from transmitting the one or more messages based at least in part on the one or more messages having a second priority less than the priority threshold; and
transmitting a preemption indication to a second UE indicating cancellation of transmission of the one or more messages from the UE.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting, to the second UE, an indication of the priority threshold indicating that one or more transmissions having priorities less than the priority threshold are canceled.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the indication of the priority threshold is included in the preemption indication.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying additional resources scheduled for an uplink message from the UE, wherein the additional resources at least partially overlap the set of time-frequency resources indicated by the grant; and
refraining from transmitting the uplink message based at least in part on the priority indication and the uplink message having the second priority.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting the one or more messages based at least in part on the one or more messages having a second priority greater than the priority threshold.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more messages are sidelink messages or uplink messages.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of time-frequency resources of the grant are periodic.

8. A method for wireless communications at a network device, comprising:
transmitting a grant that indicates a set of time-frequency resources configured for sidelink or uplink communications for a user equipment (UE);
determining a priority of a message for transmission via a portion of the set of time-frequency resources, the message being one of an uplink or a sidelink;
transmitting, to the UE, a priority indication comprising a priority threshold, the priority indication instructing the UE to cancel transmissions having a second priority less than the priority threshold for the portion of the set of time-frequency resources based at least in part on the priority of the message;
identifying a transmission of an uplink or sidelink message by a second UE via the portion of the set of time-frequency resources; and
determining the priority threshold based at least in part on the uplink or sidelink message.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein:
the identifying the transmission of the uplink or sidelink message by the second UE comprises identifying a transmission of the uplink message by the second UE via the portion of the set of time-frequency resources; and
the priority threshold is determined based at least in part on the uplink message; the method further comprising:
transmitting, based at least in part on the uplink message, the priority indication to one or more UEs of a group of UEs for cancellation of sidelink transmissions having the second priority.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein identifying the transmission of the uplink message comprises:
receiving a scheduling request for the transmission of the uplink message from the second UE.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the priority threshold corresponds to a priority value of the uplink message.

12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
identifying a transmission of the sidelink message by the second UE via the portion of the set of time-frequency resources;
determining the priority threshold based at least in part on the sidelink message, wherein the priority threshold corresponds to the sidelink message; and
transmitting the priority indication to one or more UEs of a group of UEs based at least in part on the sidelink message, the priority indication comprising the priority threshold.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving a scheduling request for the transmission of the sidelink message from the second UE to a third UE of the group of UEs.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the priority threshold corresponds to a priority value of the sidelink message.

15. The method of claim 8 , wherein the priority indication comprises an indication of the portion of the set of time-frequency resources.

16. The method of claim 8 , wherein the set of time-frequency resources of the grant are periodic.

17. An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising instructions executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
receive a grant that indicates a set of time-frequency resources configured for sidelink or uplink communications for the UE;
receive, from a network device, a priority indication comprising a priority threshold, the priority indication instructing the UE to cancel transmissions having a priority less than the priority threshold for at least a portion of the set of time-frequency resources;
determine whether to transmit one or more messages via at least the portion of the set of time-frequency resources based at least in part on the priority indication;
refrain from transmitting the one or more messages based at least in part on the one or more messages having a second priority less than the priority threshold; and
transmit a preemption indication to a second UE indicating cancellation of transmission of the one or more messages from the UE.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
transmit, to a second UE, an indication of the priority threshold indicating that one or more transmissions having priorities less than the priority threshold are canceled.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the indication of the priority threshold is included in a preemption indication.

20. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
identify additional resources scheduled for an uplink message from the UE, wherein the additional resources at least partially overlap the set of time-frequency resources indicated by the grant; and
refrain from transmitting the uplink message based at least in part on the priority indication and the uplink message having the second priority.

21. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
transmit the one or more messages based at least in part on the one or more messages having a second priority greater than the priority threshold.

22. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the one or more messages are sidelink messages or uplink messages.

23. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the set of time-frequency resources of the grant are periodic.

24. An apparatus for wireless communications

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Ryu Jung Ho
• Akkarakaran Sony
• Luo Tao
• Li Junyi
• Ding Ling
• Damnjanovic Jelena
• Montojo Juan
• Gulati Kapil

Classifications

• H04W92/18

  between terminal devices · CPC title

• H04W72/115

  Grant-free or autonomous transmission · CPC title

• H04W72/569 Primary

  of the traffic information · CPC title

• H04W72/23 Primary

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W72/56

  based on priority criteria · CPC title