US 11,784,707 B2
Techniques for sidelink relay
Wooseok Nam, San Diego, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Juan Montojo, San Diego, CA (US); Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US); and Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/942,399.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/882,305, filed on Aug. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0036763 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04L 1/1812 (2023.01)
CPC H04B 7/15507 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1812 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communications by a relay node, comprising:
receiving, via a first link, one or more first transport block portions of a first transport block;
attempting to decode each of the first transport block portions;
encoding each successfully decoded first transport block portions to define one or more second transport block portions;
transmitting, via a second link, the one or more second transport block portions; and
transmitting a sidelink control message comprising an index of the one or more second transport block portions to a receiving user equipment (UE) in response to the encoding, with the index indicating which of the first transport block portions were successfully decoded.