Techniques for sidelink carrier aggregation (CA) and multi-component carrier (CC) grants

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11812426-B2
Application number	US-202117388884-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2021
Priority date	Aug 14, 2020
Publication date	Nov 7, 2023
Grant date	Nov 7, 2023

Abstract

This disclosure relates to multi-component carrier grants. Specifically, in one aspect, a relay UE may identify and transmit to a remote UE, a plurality of sidelink component carriers based on a grant including a plurality of downlink component carriers, the plurality of sidelink component carriers associated with the a second communication channel. In another aspect, a remote UE may receive, from a relay UE, a plurality of sidelink component carriers associated with a first communication channel, the plurality of sidelink component carriers derived from a grant including a plurality of downlink component carriers associated with a second communication channel. In a further aspect, a network entity may determine a grant including a plurality of downlink component carriers associated with a first communication channel, the plurality of downlink component carriers used to derive a plurality of sidelink component carriers for a remote UE and associated with the a second communication channel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication at a relay user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, from a network entity, a first multiple component carrier grant including a first plurality of component carriers associated with a first communication channel;
identifying a second multiple component carrier grant based on the first multiple component carrier grant, the second multiple component carrier grant is associated with a second communication channel and includes a second plurality of component carriers;
receiving data on the first plurality of component carriers in resources corresponding to the first multiple component carrier grant;
transmitting, to a remote UE, the received data in the second plurality of component carriers in resources corresponding to the second multiple component carrier grant;
identifying a partition of the data received on the first plurality of component carriers; and
relaying a first portion of the partition using one of the plurality of the second component carriers and a second portion of the partition using another one of the plurality of the second component carriers.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first multiple component carrier grant corresponds to a downlink transmission and the second multiple component carrier grant corresponds to a sidelink transmission.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein identifying the second multiple component carrier grant is further composed of mapping of the second multiple component carrier grant to the first multiple component carrier grant.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first multiple component carrier grant corresponds to a downlink grant defined in a downlink control information (DCI), and wherein a size of the DCI is based on a number of component carriers per multiple component carrier grant.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying a size of sidelink control information (SCI) based on a number of component carriers per the second multiple component carrier grant,
wherein transmitting in the second plurality of component carriers includes transmitting, via SCI to the remote UE, in one or more of the second plurality of component carriers.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH);
transmitting a negative acknowledgment (NACK) in response to receiving data on the PDSCH; and
terminating the second multiple component carrier grant associated with the PDSCH.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first multiple component carrier grant is combined with the second multiple component carrier grant as a single grant associated with a respective downlink payload and sidelink grant.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein a downlink transmission on a first component carrier of the first plurality of component carriers is relayed to the remote UE using a first sidelink grant associated with one of the second plurality of component carriers, and a downlink transmission on a second component carrier of the first plurality of component carriers is relayed to the remote UE using a second sidelink grant associated with the one of the second plurality of component carriers.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first communication channel corresponds to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and the second communication channel corresponds to a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH).

10. A method of wireless communication at a remote user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, from a relay UE on a communication channel, data in a plurality of component carriers in resources corresponding to a multiple component carrier grant, the multiple component carrier grant derived from a different multiple component carrier grant including a different plurality of component carriers, wherein the data includes a first portion of a partition using one of the plurality of the component carriers and a second portion of the partition using another one of the plurality of the component carriers; and
transmitting, to the relay UE on a communication channel, different data on a sidelink communication channel.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the different multiple component carrier corresponds to a downlink transmission and the multiple component carrier corresponds to a sidelink transmission.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the multiple component carrier grant is based on a mapping of a first multiple component carrier grant to a second multiple component carrier grant.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein a size of sidelink control information (SCI) is based on a number of component carriers per multiple component carrier grant, the method further comprising:
receiving at least the multiple component carrier grant includes receiving, via SCI to the remote UE, at least the multiple component carrier grant.

14. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving, from the relay UE, a downlink transmission on a first component carrier of the plurality of component carriers using a first sidelink grant associated with one of the plurality of component carriers; and
receiving, from the relay UE, a downlink transmission on a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers is relayed to the remote UE using a second sidelink grant associated with the one of the plurality of component carriers.

15. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
a transceiver;
a memory configured to store instructions; and
at least one processor communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
receive, from a network entity, a first multiple component carrier grant including a first plurality of component carriers associated with a first communication channel;
identify a second multiple component carrier grant based on the first multiple component carrier grant, the second multiple component carrier grant is associated with a second communication channel and includes a second plurality of component carriers;
receive data on the first plurality of component carriers in resources corresponding to the first multiple component carrier grant;
transmit, to a remote UE, the received data in the second plurality of component carriers in resources corresponding to the second multiple component carrier grant
identify a partition of the data received on the first plurality of component carriers; and
relay a first portion of the partition using one of the plurality of the second component carriers and a second portion of the partition using another one of the plurality of the second component carriers.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the first multiple component carrier grant corresponds to a downlink transmission and the second multiple component carrier grant corresponds to a sidelink transmission.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein to identifying the second multiple component carrier grant is further composed of mapping of the second multiple component carrier grant to the first multiple component carrier grant.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the first multiple component carrier grant corresponds to a downlink grant defined in a downlink control information (DCI), and wherein a size of the DCI is based on a number of component carriers per multiple component carrier grant.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
identify a size of sidelink control information (SCI) based on a number of component carriers per the seco

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Akkarakaran Sony
• Ryu Jung Ho
• Luo Tao
• Damnjanovic Jelena
• Gaal Peter
• Li Junyi
• Montojo Juan

Classifications

• H04W72/1263 Primary

  Mapping of traffic onto schedule, e.g. scheduled allocation or multiplexing of flows · CPC title

• H04W72/23

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

• H04W88/04

  adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user · CPC title

• H04L5/001 Primary

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04L5/0044

  Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH · CPC title