| CPC H04W 72/40 (2023.01) [H04W 28/0278 (2013.01); H04W 72/25 (2023.01); H04W 72/566 (2023.01)] | 15 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first device, from a second device, a first physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the first PSCCH;
storing, by the first device, first relay data received through the first PSSCH in a first buffer;
storing, by the first device, data from an upper layer of the first device in a second buffer;
transmitting, by the first device, to a base station, at least one of a scheduling request (SR) or a buffer status report (BSR) for requesting a grant for transmission of the first relay data, based on the data being available in the second buffer;
receiving, by the first device, the grant from the base station; and
transmitting, by the first device, the first relay data in the first buffer based on the grant.
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