US 12,407,447 B2
Unlicensed-licensed cross-carrier retransmission
Stelios Stefanatos, San Diego, CA (US); Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US); Qing Li, Princeton Junction, NJ (US); and Shuanshuan Wu, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/820,709.
Claims priority of application No. 20210100561 (GR), filed on Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0053730 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 1/08 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0284 (2013.01); H04W 28/26 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors, coupled to the memory, configured to:
transmit, over an unlicensed carrier and in an initial transmission of a transport block (TB) satisfying a condition, an indication that a retransmission of the TB will be communicated over a licensed carrier, wherein sidelink control information (SCI) associated with transmitting the TB over the unlicensed carrier indicates a reservation of a resource of the unlicensed carrier for the retransmission of the TB, wherein the resource of the unlicensed carrier is mapped to a resource of the licensed; and
retransmit the TB over the licensed carrier when the initial transmission of the TB over the unlicensed carrier is unsuccessful, wherein the TB is retransmitted over the resource of the licensed carrier based at least in part on the resource of the unlicensed carrier being mapped to the resource of the licensed carrier.