US 12,069,755 B2
Techniques for assisted sidelink bearer establishment
Sourjya Dutta, San Diego, CA (US); Kapil Gulati, Belle Mead, NJ (US); Shuanshuan Wu, San Diego, CA (US); Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US); Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); Anantharaman Balasubramanian, San Diego, CA (US); and Preeti Kumari, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/501,816.
Prior Publication US 2023/0122731 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 72/51 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/14 (2018.02) [H04W 72/51 (2023.01)] 30 Claims
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1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE), comprising:
at least one processor;
memory coupled with the at least one processor; and
instructions stored in the memory and executable by the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:
transmit, to a network entity, a request for the network entity to establish a wireless communication link between the first UE and a second UE via at least one assisting device associated with at least one assisting node;
receive, from the network entity in response to the request, first control signaling comprising an indication for the first UE to perform a directional learning procedure with the second UE via an assisting node associated with a plurality of beam pair links, wherein the first control signaling comprises information associated with a subset of beam pair links from the plurality of beam pair links that are to be used for the directional learning procedure;
transmit, to the network entity and based at least in part on the first control signaling, an uplink message comprising an indication of a completion of the directional learning procedure performed with the assisting node using the subset of beam pair links;
receive, from the network entity in response to the uplink message, second control signaling indicating a set of resources for performing a link configuration procedure between the first UE and the second UE, wherein the second control signaling indicates a set of candidate link configurations that are usable for communications via at least one beam pair link of the subset of beam pair links; and
communicate, based at least in part on the first control signaling and the second control signaling, with the second UE via one or more assisting devices of the assisting node using a link configuration of the set of candidate link configurations and via the at least one beam pair link of the subset of beam pair links.