Methods for enhanced sidelink communications with clustered or peer-to-peer federated learning

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12376142-B2
Application number	US-202217821104-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2022
Priority date	Aug 19, 2022
Publication date	Jul 29, 2025
Grant date	Jul 29, 2025

Abstract

Aspects are provided which allow a UE to achieve sidelink parameter coordination through various signaling in clustered FL or peer-to-peer FL. The UE provides a first ML model information update and a measurement associated with the update. The UE obtains an aggregated ML model information update aggregating the first update with a second ML model information update of either a first network node in a FL cluster including the UE or a second network node in a second FL cluster. The UE provides a sidelink communication parameter in SCI to a network node, which parameter is an output of an ML model associated with the aggregated ML model information update. As a result, UEs may derive common SCI parameters from their updated ML models to apply in sidelink communications, thereby leading to maximized packet reception rate, maximized throughput, or minimized latency in communication.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
a processor; and
memory coupled with the processor, the processor configured to:
provide a first machine learning (ML) model information update and a measurement associated with the first ML model information update;
obtain an aggregated ML model information update, wherein the aggregated ML model information update includes an aggregation of the first ML model information update with a second ML model information update of one of:
a first network node in a first federated learning (FL) cluster including the apparatus, or
a second network node in a second FL cluster;

and
provide a sidelink communication parameter in sidelink control information (SCI) to a network node, wherein the sidelink communication parameter is an output of an ML model associated with the aggregated ML model information update.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , the processor further configured to provide the first ML model information update and the measurement to a FL cluster leader of the first FL cluster, and
wherein the aggregation is with the second ML model information update of the first network node in the first FL cluster.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the measurement includes at least one of a channel busy ratio (CBR), a quantity of received packets at the apparatus, or a quantity of resource reservations by the first network node.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the measurement further includes a statistic associated with the CBR within a configured time window.

5. The apparatus of claim 2 ,
wherein the processor is configured to provide the first ML model information update and the measurement with a periodicity configured by one of the FL cluster leader or an FL parameter network entity;
wherein the processor is configured to provide the first ML model information update and the measurement, semi-persistently within a configured time window; or
wherein the processor is configured to provide the first ML model information update and the measurement aperiodically in response to a request from the FL cluster leader.

6. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from an FL parameter network entity, the RRC configuration indicating a resource for reporting the first ML model information update and the measurement;
wherein the processor is configured to provide the first ML model information update and the measurement in the resource.

7. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a message from the FL cluster leader triggering transmission of a report of the first ML model information update and the measurement;
wherein the processor is configured to provide the first ML model information update and the measurement in a reserved sidelink resource in response to the message.

8. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to provide the first ML model information update and the measurement in a dedicated resource for reporting the first ML model information update and the measurement.

9. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the aggregated ML model information update from the FL cluster leader further includes an additional ML model information update of the second network node in the second FL cluster.

10. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a message indicating the apparatus is a cluster member of a third FL cluster based on the measurement being an outlier to a statistic associated with a second measurement of the first network node.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the processor is configured to provide the first ML model information update and the measurement to an FL parameter network entity; and
wherein the aggregation is with the second ML model information update of the second network node in the second FL cluster.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a report including a third ML model information update from the first network node in the first FL cluster;
wherein the first ML model information update includes a second aggregation of the third ML model information update with an additional ML model information update from an additional network node in the first FL cluster.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
provide the second aggregation to the first network node in the first FL cluster.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the report includes a second measurement associated with the third ML model information update, and the measurement includes a statistic associated with the second measurement.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
provide, to the FL parameter network entity, an identifier of the first network node and the second measurement, wherein the second measurement is an outlier to the statistic.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
provide the aggregated ML model information update to the first network node in the first FL cluster.

17. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
provide a first message including first FL information of the apparatus to the first network node; and
obtain a second message including second FL information of the first network node;
wherein the first network node is in the first FL cluster based on the first FL information and the second FL information.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 ,
wherein the first FL information comprises at least one of:
a machine learning task of the apparatus;
information associated with an available sensor coupled to the apparatus for the machine learning task;
an available ML model associated with the machine learning task; or
an available computation resource of the apparatus for the machine learning task; and

wherein the machine learning task comprises at least one of:
a reinforcement learning task;
an object detection task; or
a classification task.

19. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain a message indicating a FL cluster leader of the first FL cluster including the apparatus;
provide a second message including FL information; and
provide a third message indicating the second network node;
wherein the message indicates one of the second network node or a third network node as the FL cluster leader of the first FL cluster based on the FL information.

20. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
provide a message indicating the apparatus is a FL cluster leader of the first FL cluster; and
obtain a second message including FL information of the first network node;
wherein the message is responsive to the FL information.

21. The apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the first network node and the second network node are a same network node or different network nodes; and
wherein the first FL cluster and the second FL cluster are a same FL cluster or different FL clusters.

22. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first ML model information update comprises at least one of:
a weight;
a gradient; or
a scaling factor, the scaling factor being a multiplicand or a summand.

23. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a second processor configured to transmit

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Ashour Mahmoud
• Gulati Kapil
• Guan Kyle Chi
• Liu Libin
• Balasubramanian Anantharaman

Classifications

• G06N20/00

  Machine learning · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title

• H04W28/26

  Resource reservation · CPC title

• H04W72/20

  Control channels or signalling for resource management · CPC title

• H04W76/20

  Manipulation of established connections · CPC title