| CPC H04W 72/1263 (2013.01) [H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] | 1 Claim | 

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               1. A user equipment, comprising: 
            reception circuitry configured to receive a downlink control information (DCI) format 5A from a base station; and 
                determination circuitry configured to determine whether a field “Lowest index of the sub-channel allocation to the initial transmission” is present in the DCI format 5A, wherein 
                the determination circuitry is further configured to determine a resource index LInit of a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) such that: 
              if the field “Lowest index of the sub-channel allocation to the initial transmission” is present in the DCI format 5A, the resource index LInit is a value indicated by the “Lowest index of the sub-channel allocation to the initial transmission” field, and 
                  otherwise, the resource index LInit is 0. 
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