| CPC H04L 1/187 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1887 (2013.01); H04L 1/1896 (2013.01); H04W 72/40 (2023.01)] | 14 Claims |

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1. A method of transmitting, by a first user equipment (UE), sidelink signals in an unlicensed band in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink communication, the method comprising:
randomly selecting a value of a back-off counter within a contention window related to the unlicensed band; and
transmitting a first sidelink signal including a transport block (TB) in the unlicensed band based on the backoff counter,
wherein the first sidelink signal is transmitted over a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) or a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and
wherein based on that reception of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for the first sidelink signal is not expected, a size of the contention window is maintained regardless of whether the TB is retransmitted.
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