US 12,137,489 B2
Dynamic control of sidelink resources in a communication network
Anantharaman Balasubramanian, San Diego, CA (US); Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US); Shuanshuan Wu, San Diego, CA (US); Gabi Sarkis, San Diego, CA (US); Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Hillsborough, NJ (US); and Kapil Gulati, Belle Mead, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/223,987.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/011,898, filed on Apr. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0329720 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/14 (2018.02) [H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02); H04W 80/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
13. A method for configuring resources at a user equipment, comprising:
establishing a first data connection with a network element;
receiving from the network element, via the first data connection, a first logical channel ID (LCID) in a header of a first Medium-Access Control (MAC) control element configured to cause the user equipment to activate a pool of sidelink resources, wherein a value of the first LCID is mapped to enabling the pool of sidelink resources and another value of the first LCID is mapped to disabling the pool of sidelink resources;
activating the pool of sidelink resources according to the first LCID;
receiving from the network element via the first data connection a second LCID in a header of a second MAC control element configured to cause the user equipment to configure the pool of sidelink resources for sidelink communication, wherein, to cause the user equipment to configure the pool of sidelink resources, the second LCID is configured to cause the user equipment to configure one or more operating parameters for the sidelink communication using the pool of sidelink resources, wherein a value of the second LCID is mapped to the one or more operating parameters to cause the user equipment to configure the one or more operating parameters and another value of the second LCID is mapped to changing at least one of a number of physical resource blocks or a time-frequency allocation of the pool of sidelink resources; and
configuring the pool of sidelink resources according to the second LCID.