Sidelink transmit power control commands

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11812394-B2
Application number	US-202016947572-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 6, 2020
Priority date	Aug 8, 2019
Publication date	Nov 7, 2023
Grant date	Nov 7, 2023

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a source user equipment (UE) may transmit a first sidelink communication to a target UE. The source UE may receive, based at least in part on transmitting the first sidelink communication to the target UE, a transmit power control command for a second sidelink communication. The source UE may transmit the second sidelink communication using a transmit power determined based at least in part on the transmit power control command. Numerous other aspects are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a source user equipment (UE), comprising:
transmitting, via a sidelink channel, a first sidelink communication to a target UE and another UE, the first sidelink communication being transmitted to the other UE based at least in part on a distance between the source UE and the other UE satisfying a distance threshold;
receiving, based at least in part on transmitting the first sidelink communication to the target UE and the other UE, a plurality of transmit power control commands for a second sidelink communication,
wherein the first sidelink communication comprises a plurality of time-division-multiplexed channels, and wherein a transmit power control command, of the plurality of transmit power control commands, is based at least in part on channel power offsets to indicate different transmit powers for each of the plurality of time-division-multiplexed channels; and

transmitting, via the sidelink channel and to the target UE, the second sidelink communication using a transmit power determined based at least in part on aggregating the plurality of transmit power control commands.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a transmit power control command, of the plurality of transmit power control commands, is received from a relay network entity, and wherein the transmit power control command is not received via the sidelink channel.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the relay network entity comprises a relay base station.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a transmit power control command, of the plurality of transmit power control commands, is based at least in part on a sidelink reception quality of the first sidelink communication.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a transmit power control command, of the plurality of transmit power control commands, is based at least in part on an interference measurement of the first sidelink communication.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a transmit power control command, of the plurality of transmit power control commands, is received from a relay network entity, and wherein the transmit power control command is generated by the relay network entity based at least in part on one or more other transmit power control commands generated by one or more UEs based at least in part on the first sidelink communication.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the relay network entity is a base station or a relay UE.

8. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, via a sidelink channel, a first sidelink communication from a source UE, wherein the UE receives the first sidelink communication based at least in part on a distance between the UE and the source UE satisfying a distance threshold,
wherein the first sidelink communication comprises a plurality of time-division-multiplexed channels;

generating transmit power control information based at least in part on the first sidelink communication,
wherein the transmit power control information is based at least in part on channel power offsets to indicate different transmit powers for each of the plurality of time-division-multiplexed channels; and

transmitting, to a relay network entity, the transmit power control information to cause the relay network entity to transmit a transmit power control command to the source UE, wherein the source UE transmits a second sidelink communication using a transmit power determined based at least in part on aggregating the transmit power control command and one or more other transmit power control commands.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the network relay entity is a base station configured to relay the transmit power control command to the source UE based at least in part on the transmit power control information.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the transmit power control information is generated based at least in part on a sidelink reception quality of the first sidelink communication.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the transmit power control information is generated based at least in part on an interference measurement of the first sidelink communication.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the transmit power control information is transmitted to the relay network entity to cause the relay network entity to transmit the transmit power control command to the source UE.

13. A method of wireless communication performed by a network entity, comprising:
receiving, from a user equipment (UE), transmit power control information associated with a sidelink channel between a source UE and a target UE,
wherein the transmit power control information is based on a first sidelink communication comprising a plurality of time-division-multiplexed channels, and
wherein the transmit power control information is based at least in part on channel power offsets to indicate different transmit powers for each of the plurality of time-division-multiplexed channels;

determining, based at least in part on the transmit power control information, a transmit power control command for a second sidelink communication from the source UE; and
transmitting, to the source UE, the transmit power control command, wherein the source UE transmits a subsequent sidelink communication using a transmit power determined based at least in part on aggregating the transmit power control command and one or more additional transmit power control commands.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the network entity is a base station or a relay UE.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the transmit power control information identifies another transmit power control command that is received from the UE for relay to the source UE.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the transmit power control information identifies another transmit power control command, and wherein the UE is not the target UE.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the transmit power control command is determined based at least in part on a sidelink reception quality of another sidelink communication of the source UE.

18. The method of claim 13 , wherein the transmit power control command is determined based at least in part on an interference measurement of another sidelink communication of the source UE.

19. The method of claim 13 , wherein the transmit power control command is generated by the network entity based at least in part on one or more other transmit power control commands received from one or more other UEs based at least in part on another sidelink communication of the source UE.

20. The method of claim 13 , wherein the transmit power control command is transmitted to another network entity for relay to the source UE.

21. A source user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to:
transmit, via a sidelink channel, a first sidelink communication to a target UE and another UE, the first sidelink communication being transmitted to the other UE based at least in part on a distance between the source UE and the other UE satisfying a distance threshold;
receive, based at least in part on transmitting the first sidelink communication to the other UE, a plurality of transmit power control commands for a second sidelink communication,
wherein the first sidelink communication comprises a plurality of time-division-multiplexed channels, and wherein a transmit power control command, of the plurality of transmit power cont

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Akkarakaran Sony
• Luo Tao
• Li Junyi
• Montojo Juan
• Ryu Jung Ho
• Gulati Kapil
• Cheng Hong

Classifications

• H04W52/244 Primary

  Interferences in heterogeneous networks, e.g. among macro and femto or pico cells or other sector / system interference [OSI] · CPC title

• H04B7/155

  Ground-based stations (H04B7/204 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04W52/16

  Deriving transmission power values from another channel · CPC title

• H04W52/245

  taking into account received signal strength · CPC title

• H04W88/08

  Access point devices · CPC title