Method and apparatus for performing SL DRX operation in NR V2X

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11856573-B2
Application number	US-202318101063-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 24, 2023
Priority date	May 17, 2021
Publication date	Dec 26, 2023
Grant date	Dec 26, 2023

Abstract

Proposed are a method by which a first apparatus performs wireless communication, and an apparatus supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: obtaining a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration including information related to an SL DRX timer; receiving, from a second apparatus through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), second sidelink control information (SCI) and first SCI for scheduling a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); receiving, from the second apparatus through the PSCCH, the second SCI related to groupcast and a medium access control (MAC) packet data unit (PDU); and determining, on the basis of an index of a sub-channel related to the PSSCH and an index of a slot, a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performing wireless communication by a first device, the method comprising:
obtaining an SL DRX configuration including information related to a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) timer;
receiving a first SCI for scheduling of second sidelink control information (SCI) and a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from a second device through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH);
receiving the second SCI and a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) from the second device through the PSSCH;
determining a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource based on an index of a sub-channel related to the PSSCH and an index of a slot; and
starting the SL DRX timer after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) a cast type related to the second SCI being a groupcast,
(ii) a SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled by the second SCI, and
(iii) a negative-only acknowledgement being selected.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second SCI includes cast type information representing a NACK-only groupcast cast type.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second SCI further includes information regarding a zone ID and information regarding a communication range requirement.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the SL HARQ feedback includes negative acknowledge (NACK) information, and does not include positive acknowledge (ACK) information.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the SL DRX timer includes a SL DRX HARQ round-trip time (RTT) timer.

6. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) the SL HARQ feedback being enabled by the second SCI,
(iii) the MAC PDU being successfully decoded, and
(iv) the MAC PDU being successfully decoded.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PSFCH resource is a resource for which the SL HARQ feedback is transmitted.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the SL DRX timer is started after an end of a time domain of the PSFCH resource.

9. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled by the second SCI,
(iii) the negative-only acknowledgement being selected,
(iv) the MAC PDU not being successfully decoded, and
(v) the SL HARQ feedback being transmitted to the second device on the PSFCH resource.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) the SL HARQ feedback being enabled by the second SCI,
(iii) the negative-only acknowledgement being selected, and
(iv) the SL HARQ feedback being a positive acknowledgement.

11. The method of claim 6 ,
wherein the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) the SL HARQ feedback being enabled by the second SCI,
(iii) the negative-only acknowledgement being selected,
(iv) the MAC PDU being successfully decoded, and
(v) the SL HARQ feedback not being transmitted to the second device on the PSFCH resource.

12. The method of claim 6 ,
where the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled by the second SCI,
(iii) the negative-only acknowledgement being selected,
(iv) the MAC PDU being successfully decoded, and
(v) the SL HARQ feedback to the second device being skipped on the PSFCH resource.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the SL DRX timer is started in a first slot after the end of the time domain of the PSFCH resource.

14. The method of claim 9 ,
wherein the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) the SL HARQ feedback being enabled by the second SCI, and
(iii) a negative-only acknowledgement is selected.

15. A first device for performing wireless communication, the first device comprising:
one or more transceivers;
one or more processors; and
one or more memories operably connected to the one or more processors and storing instructions that, based on being executed by the one or more processors, perform operations comprising:
obtain an SL DRX configuration including information related to a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) timer;
receive a first SCI for scheduling of second sidelink control information (SCI) and a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from a second device through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH);
receive the second SCI and a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) from the second device through the PSSCH;
determine a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource based on an index of a sub-channel related to the PSSCH and an index of a slot; and
start the SL DRX timer after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) a cast type related to the second SCI being a groupcast,
(ii) a SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled by the second SCI, and
(iii) a negative-only acknowledgement being selected.

16. The first apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) the SL HARQ feedback being enabled by the second SCI,
(iii) the negative-only acknowledgement being selected, and
(iv) the SL HARQ feedback being a positive acknowledgement.

17. An apparatus adapted to control a first UE, the apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memories operably connectable to the one or more processors and storing instructions that, based on being executed by the one or more processors, perform operations comprising:
obtain an SL DRX configuration including information related to a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) timer;
receive a first SCI for scheduling of second sidelink control information (SCI) and a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from a second UE through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH);
receive the second SCI and a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) from the second UE through the PSSCH;
determine a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource based on an index of a sub-channel related to the PSSCH and an index of a slot; and
wherein the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) the SL HARQ feedback being enabled by the second SCI, and
(iii) a negative-only acknowledgement is selected.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the second SCI includes cast type information representing a NACK-only groupcast cast type.

19. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the second SCI further includes information regarding a zone ID and information regarding a communication range requirement.

20. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the SL DRX timer is started after the PSFCH resource based on:
(i) the cast type related to the second SCI being the groupcast,
(ii) the SL HARQ feedback being enabled by the second SCI,
(iii) the negative-only acknowledgement being selected, and
(iv) the SL HARQ feedback being a positive

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Park Giwon
• Seo Hanbyul
• Lee Seungmin
• Back Seoyoung
• Hong Jongwoo

Classifications

• H04W72/1263 Primary

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

• H04L1/1812

  Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ] · CPC title

• H04W72/25 Primary

  between terminals via a wireless link, e.g. sidelink · CPC title

• H04W76/28 Primary

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

• H04W92/18

  between terminal devices · CPC title