US 12,016,052 B2
Transmission of channel occupancy time-sharing information (COT-SI) reserving a COT for sidelink communications in unlicensed bands
Xiaojie Wang, Hillsborough, NJ (US); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); Chih-Hao Liu, San Diego, CA (US); Yisheng Xue, San Diego, CA (US); and Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/361,978.
Prior Publication US 2022/0417988 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 74/0808 (2024.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 74/0808 (2013.01) [H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
performing a channel access procedure to acquire a current channel occupancy time (COT) and one or more future COTs in a sidelink channel over an unlicensed new radio (NR) band, wherein a number of the acquired COTs equals a difference between a maximum number of physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) reservations a first stage sidelink control information (SCI-1) is configured to reserve and a number of one or more PSSCH reservations that the SCI-1 is configured to reserve;
transmitting, via the SCI-1, COT sharing information (COT-SI) indicating a structure of the current COT; and
transmitting a plurality of physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) reservations, with a first subset of the plurality of PSSCH reservations in the current COT and a second subset of the plurality of PSSCH reservations in the one or more future COTs.