US 12,225,606 B2
Integrated access and backhaul sidelink function control
Sony Akkarakaran, Poway, CA (US); Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US); and Naeem Akl, Somerville, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/385,181.
Prior Publication US 2023/0025046 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 88/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/14 (2018.02) [H04W 88/12 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communication at a central unit, comprising:
selecting, from a set of distributed units associated with the central unit, a distributed unit of an integrated access and backhaul node having a sidelink connection with a user equipment (UE) to control sidelink communications with the UE based at least in part on the distributed unit being collocated within the integrated access and backhaul node having the sidelink connection with the UE or on a first synchronization signal transmitted from the selected distributed unit being quasi-collocated with respect to a second synchronization signal transmitted from the distributed unit performing sidelink communications with the UE;
determining a configuration of sidelink parameters for the sidelink communications with the UE, the sidelink parameters comprising an identification of the selected distributed unit; and
transmitting, to the integrated access and backhaul node performing sidelink communications with the UE, an indication of the configuration of sidelink parameters for the sidelink communications.