US 12,232,213 B2
Repeater discovery in sidelink
Xiaojie Wang, Hillsborough, NJ (US); Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); and Jianghong Luo, Skillman, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/559,856.
Prior Publication US 2023/0199466 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/005 (2013.01) [H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network entity for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more transceivers;
one or more memories; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more transceivers and the one or more memories, the one or more processors being configured to:
transmit a message to a sidelink (SL)-repeater, configuring the SL-repeater to transmit a SL discovery message including sidelink synchronization signal blocks (S-SSBs) including a plurality of S-SSB index numbers;
receive, from a SL-node, a SL-node identification and a preferred S-SSB index number of the plurality of S-SSB index numbers associated with the SL-repeater; and
transmit the SL-node identification and the preferred S-SSB index number to the SL-repeater,
wherein a sidelink discovery between the SL-repeater and the SL-node is transparent to the SL-repeater and the SL-node.