US 12,445,901 B2
Congestion control by a sidelink midlayer framework
Hong Cheng, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); Shailesh Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Dan Vassilovski, Del Mar, CA (US); and Lan Yu, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/782,959
Filed by Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/070217
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/134775, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0007528 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 28/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/0289 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0284 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications, comprising:
identifying, at an application enabler layer, a congestion control configuration comprising capabilities for collecting operation information;
transmitting, to a subset of a plurality of user equipments (UEs) within network coverage, an operation information request and a reporting configuration for reporting the operation information, wherein the reporting configuration comprises relay instructions based at least in part on a coverage level of each of the plurality of UEs;
receiving, from the plurality of UEs, the operation information in accordance with the capabilities, wherein receiving the operation information is based at least in part on the operation information request; and
generating instructions for one or more UEs of the plurality of UEs based at least in part on the received operation information.