| CPC H04W 72/30 (2023.01) [H04L 5/0055 (2013.01)] | 9 Claims |

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1. A method for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) reporting of a user equipment (UE), comprising:
determining, by the UE, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information in response to one or more transport blocks (TBs) in a received physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) in a resource pool; and
selecting a sequence cyclic shift for the HARQ information in a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) transmission in the resource pool, wherein the sequence cyclic shift is generated according to a pre-configured or network configured initial cyclic shifting value;
wherein the method further comprises:
decoding, by the UE, an associated sidelink control information (SCI) scheduling the received PSSCH, wherein the SCI comprises a HARQ feedback indicator for enabling or disabling a HARQ feedback reporting of the HARQ information from the UE, wherein the HARQ information is given in a positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) representation format comprising a full format of ACK or NACK, or a reduced format of ACK-only or NACK-only;
determining, by the UE, whether to perform the HARQ feedback reporting for the received PSSCH is based on the HARQ feedback indicator in the associated SCI;
wherein the HARQ feedback reporting for the received PSSCH is based on an ACK/NACK representation format;
wherein a selection or determination of the ACK/NACK representation format is based on a group size of a groupcast that serves as a sidelink cast type;
for the groupcast, either the full format or the reduced format is used, a selection of which format to use is based on the group size of the groupcast and/or an indication in the associated SCI;
when the group size of the groupcast is known, the UE selects the full format of ACK or NACK; and
when the group size of the groupcast is larger than a pre-define/fixed value or number of candidate PSFCH resources, the UE follows an ACK/NACK representation format indicated in the associated SCI or selects the reduced format of ACK-only or NACK-only.
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