US 12,238,680 B2
Sidelink assisted multi-link communication
Wooseok Nam, San Diego, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); and Sony Akkarakaran, Poway, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/942,342.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/882,419, filed on Aug. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0037503 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) [H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communications by a relay node, comprising:
receiving, from a base station and via an aggregated slot on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a semi-persistent or dynamic grant for one or more access link resources and one or more sidelink resources that are offset in a time domain, wherein the relay node represents a virtual antenna panel for a user equipment (UE) having a single antenna panel to facilitate multi-link communication between the base station and the UE;
receiving data from at least one of:
the base station on an access link using the one or more access link resources, or the UE on a sidelink using the one or more sidelink resources; and
forwarding the data to at least one of:
the UE using the one or more sidelink resources when received from the base station on the access link using the one or more access link resources, or
the base station using the one or more access link resources when received from the UE on the sidelink using the one or more sidelink resources.