Channel sensing indication from mac layer to phy layer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023328693-A1
Application number	US-202217658430-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 7, 2022
Priority date	Apr 7, 2022
Publication date	Oct 12, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

A first UE may receive SCI including one or more resource reservations of a second UE based on an indication from a MAC layer to a PHY layer to monitor for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE. The indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer may trigger at least one of a sensing beam, a TCI state, or a spatial relation. The at least one of the sensing beam, the TCI state, or the spatial relation may be associated with monitoring for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE. The first UE may transmit a beam to a target UE on one or more resources that are selected based on the one or more resource reservations of the second UE.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and, based at least in part on information stored in the memory, the at least one processor is configured to:
receive sidelink control information (SCI) including one or more resource reservations of a second UE based on an indication from a medium access control (MAC) layer to a physical (PHY) layer to monitor for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE, the indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer triggering at least one of a sensing beam, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, or a spatial relation, wherein the at least one of the sensing beam, the TCI state, or the spatial relation is associated with monitoring for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE; and
transmit a beam to a target UE on one or more resources that are selected based on the one or more resource reservations of the second UE.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to monitor for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE based on the indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer.

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer triggering the sensing beam is based on at least one of the target UE or the beam transmitted to the target UE.

4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the sensing beam is a same beam as the beam transmitted to the target UE.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the sensing beam is a different beam from the beam transmitted to the target UE.

6 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the sensing beam includes a different beam width than the beam transmitted to the target UE.

7 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to select the one or more resources that are different from the resources associated with the one or more resource reservations of the second UE, wherein the one or more resources are selected based on a wider beam than the beam transmitted to the target UE.

8 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the sensing beam corresponds to a different beam direction than a beam direction for the beam transmitted to the target UE.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a width of the sensing beam is based on a number of sensing slots, such that the width of the sensing beam is increased based on an increased number of the number of sensing slots.

10 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a width of the sensing beam is based on whether the sensing beam is associated with periodic-based partial sensing (PBPS) or contiguous partial sensing (CPS), the width of the sensing beam being wider if the sensing beam is associated with the CPS than if the sensing beam is associated with the PBPS.

11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a width of the sensing beam is based on a priority of a transmission to the target UE, the width of the sensing beam being increased if the priority of the transmission to the target UE is decreased.

12 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to select at least one of the sensing beam or the beam transmitted to the target UE at the MAC layer, wherein the at least one of the sensing beam or the beam transmitted to the target UE is selected based on at least one of a channel busy ratio (CBR) or a channel occupancy ratio (CR).

13 . The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the at least one of the sensing beam or the beam transmitted to the target UE is included in a plurality of beams, a selection of the at least one of the sensing beam or the beam transmitted to the target UE corresponding to at least one of a smallest CBR or a smallest CR associated with the plurality of beams.

14 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer is indicative of a plurality of sensing beams associated with the monitoring for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE, the sensing beam being included in the plurality of sensing beams.

15 . The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to activate one or more sensing beams at the PHY layer, wherein the one or more sensing beams are indicated in the plurality of sensing beams to monitor for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE.

16 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the one or more sensing beams are activated based on a time sequence.

17 . The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer indicative of the plurality of sensing beams is based on a separate indication from the PHY layer to the MAC layer of at least one set of available resources associated with the plurality of sensing beams.

18 . The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising at least one of a transceiver or an antenna coupled to the at least one processor.

19 . A method of wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving sidelink control information (SCI) including one or more resource reservations of a second UE based on an indication from a medium access control (MAC) layer to a physical (PHY) layer to monitor for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE, the indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer triggering at least one of a sensing beam, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, or a spatial relation, wherein the at least one of the sensing beam, the TCI state, or the spatial relation is associated with the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE being monitored; and transmitting a beam to a target UE on one or more resources that are selected based on the one or more resource reservations of the second UE.

20 . The method of claim 19 , further comprising monitoring for the SCI including the one or more resource reservations of the second UE based on the indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer.

21 . The method of claim 19 , wherein the indication from the MAC layer to the PHY layer triggering the sensing beam is based on at least one of the target UE or the beam transmitted to the target UE.

22 . The method of claim 19 , wherein the sensing beam is a same beam as the beam transmitted to the target UE.

23 . The method of claim 19 , wherein the sensing beam is a different beam from the beam transmitted to the target UE.

24 . The method of claim 19 , wherein a width of the sensing beam is based on a number of sensing slots, such that the width of the sensing beam is increased based on an increased number of the number of sensing slots.

25 . The method of claim 19 , wherein a width of the sensing beam is based on whether the sensing beam is associated with periodic-based partial sensing (PBPS) or contiguous partial sensing (CPS), the width of the sensing beam being wider if the sensing beam is associated with the CPS than if the sensing beam is associated with the PBPS.

26 . The method of claim 19 , wherein a width of the sensing beam is based on a priority of a transmission to the target UE, the width of the sensing beam being increased if the priority of the transmission to the target UE is decreased.

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Ryu Jung Ho
• Akkarakaran Sony
• Luo Tao
• Li Junyi
• Li Qing
• Sarkis Gabi

Classifications

• H04W72/02 Primary

  Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal · CPC title

• H04W28/26

  Resource reservation · CPC title

• H04W72/0406

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/046

  the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams · CPC title

• H04W16/28

  using beam steering · CPC title