Power control of physical sidelink feedback channel
Patent Information
- Application Number
- EP2023818278
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- EP · EP
- Patent Type
- Applications
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- Filing Date
- 2023-11-02
- Publication Date
- 2026-09-09
AI Technical Summary
Existing power control mechanisms for the physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) in sidelink unlicensed spectrum fail to efficiently manage power distribution between common and dedicated resource blocks, leading to unnecessary interference and power consumption.
The proposed solution involves determining the required power for PSFCH transmission, which includes a first power for a set of common resource blocks and a second power for a set of dedicated resource blocks. If the total power exceeds a configured maximum, the first power of the common resource blocks is reduced to ensure compliance with power limitations, thereby optimizing power allocation and minimizing interference.
This approach effectively reduces unnecessary interference and power consumption by optimizing power allocation between common and dedicated resource blocks, ensuring that the PSFCH transmission meets regulatory requirements while minimizing excess power usage.
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POWER CONTROL OF PHYSICAL SIDELINK FEEDBACK CHANNEL
[0001] FIELDS
[0002] Various example embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to the field of telecommunication and in particular, to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium for power control of physical sidelink feedback channel.BACKGROUND
[0003] With the development of the communication technology, sidelink (SL) communication has been studied and various enhancements have been proposed to SL communication. For example, feedback mechanisms associated with the SL communication are being studied to improve performance on sidelink unlicensed spectrum. Further aspects, such as power control, need to be studied as well for further enhancement of the sidelink unlicensed spectrum.SUMMARY
[0004] In a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus; and perform the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced based on the configured power.
[0005] In a second aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method. The method comprises: determining that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus; and performing the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced based on the configured power.
[0006] In a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus comprises means for determining that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus; and means for performing the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced based on the configured power.
[0007] In a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium comprises instructions stored thereon for causing an apparatus to perform at least the method according to the second aspect.
[0008] It is to be understood that the Summary section is not intended to identify key or essential features of embodiments of the present disclosure, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the present disclosure. Other features of the present disclosure will become easily comprehensible through the following description.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0009] Some example embodiments will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, where:
[0010] FIG. 1 illustrates an example communication environment in which example embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented;
[0011] FIG. 2 illustrates an interlaced frequency division multiplex scheme for a new radio uplink;
[0012] FIG. 3 illustrates an example of power on different RBs;
[0013] FIG. 4 illustrates an example signaling diagram of Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) power control according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0014] FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart of a process for PSFCH power control according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0015] FIG. 6 illustrates a flowchart of another process for PSFCH power control according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0016] FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of a further process for PSFCH power control according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0017] FIG. 8 illustrates a simplified block diagram of a device that is suitable for implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure; and
[0018] FIG. 9 illustrates a block diagram of an example computer readable medium in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
[0019] Throughout the drawings, the same or similar reference numerals represent the same or similar element.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0020] Principle of the present disclosure will now be described with reference to some example embodiments. It is to be understood that these embodiments are described only for the purpose of illustration and help those skilled in the art to understand and implement the present disclosure, without suggesting any limitation as to the scope of the disclosure. Embodiments described herein can be implemented in various manners other than the ones described below.
[0021] In the following description and claims, unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skills in the art to which this disclosure belongs.
[0022] References in the present disclosure to “one embodiment, ” “an embodiment, ” “an example embodiment, ” and the like indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but it is not necessary that every embodiment includes the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to affect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.
[0023] It shall be understood that although the terms “first, ” “second, ” …, etc. in front of noun (s) and the like may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element from another and they do not limit the order of the noun (s) . For example, a first element could be termed a second element, and similarly, a second element could be termed a first element, without departing from the scope of example embodiments. As used herein, the term “and / or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the listed terms.
[0024] As used herein, “at least one of the following: <a list of two or more elements>” and “at least one of <a list of two or more elements>” and similar wording, where the list of two or more elements are joined by “and” or “or” , mean at least any one of the elements, or at least any two or more of the elements, or at least all the elements.
[0025] As used herein, unless stated explicitly, performing a step “in response to A” does not indicate that the step is performed immediately after “A” occurs and one or more intervening steps may be included.
[0026] The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments. As used herein, the singular forms “a” , “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” , “comprising” , “has” , “having” , “includes” and / or “including” , when used herein, specify the presence of stated features, elements, and / or components etc., but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components and / or combinations thereof.
[0027] As used in this application, the term “circuitry” may refer to one or more or all of the following:
[0028] (a) hardware-only circuit implementations (such as implementations in only analog and / or digital circuitry) and
[0029] (b) combinations of hardware circuits and software, such as (as applicable) :
[0030] (i) a combination of analog and / or digital hardware circuit (s) with software / firmware and
[0031] (ii) any portions of hardware processor (s) with software (including digital signal processor (s) ) , software, and memory (ies) that work together to cause an apparatus, such as a mobile phone or server, to perform various functions) and
[0032] (c) hardware circuit (s) and or processor (s) , such as a microprocessor (s) or a portion of a microprocessor (s) , that requires software (e.g., firmware) for operation, but the software may not be present when it is not needed for operation.
[0033] This definition of circuitry applies to all uses of this term in this application, including in any claims. As a further example, as used in this application, the term circuitry also covers an implementation of merely a hardware circuit or processor (or multiple processors) or portion of a hardware circuit or processor and its (or their) accompanying software and / or firmware. The term circuitry also covers, for example and if applicable to the particular claim element, a baseband integrated circuit or processor integrated circuit for a mobile device or a similar integrated circuit in server, a cellular network device, or other computing or network device.
[0034] As used herein, the term “communication network” refers to a network following any suitable communication standards, such as New Radio (NR) , Long Term Evolution (LTE) , LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) , Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) , High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) , Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and so on. Furthermore, the communications between a terminal device and a network device in the communication network may be performed according to any suitable generation communication protocols, including, but not limited to, the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , 2.5G, 2.75G, the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , 4.5G, the fifth generation (5G) , the sixth generation (6G) communication protocols, and / or any other protocols either currently known or to be developed in the future. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied in various communication systems. Given the rapid development in communications, there will of course also be future type communication technologies and systems with which the present disclosure may be embodied. It should not be seen as limiting the scope of the present disclosure to only the aforementioned system.
[0035] As used herein, the term “network device” refers to a node in a communication network via which a terminal device accesses the network and receives services therefrom. The network device may refer to a base station (BS) or an access point (AP) , for example, a node B (NodeB or NB) , an evolved NodeB (eNodeB or eNB) , an NR NB (also referred to as a gNB) , a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) , a radio header (RH) , a remote radio head (RRH) , a relay, an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node, a low power node such as a femto, a pico, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) or non-ground network device such as a satellite network device, a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite and a geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) satellite, an aircraft network device, and so forth, depending on the applied terminology and technology. In some example embodiments, radio access network (RAN) split architecture comprises a Centralized Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU) at an IAB donor node. An IAB node comprises a Mobile Terminal (IAB-MT) part that behaves like a UE toward the parent node, and a DU part of an IAB node behaves like a base station toward the next-hop IAB node.
[0036] The term “terminal device” refers to any end device that may be capable of wireless communication. By way of example rather than limitation, a terminal device may also be referred to as a communication device, user equipment (UE) , a Subscriber Station (SS) , a Portable Subscriber Station, a Mobile Station (MS) , or an Access Terminal (AT) . The terminal device may include, but not limited to, a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a smart phone, voice over IP (VoIP) phones, wireless local loop phones, a tablet, a wearable terminal device, a personal digital assistant (PDA) , portable computers, desktop computer, image capture terminal devices such as digital cameras, gaming terminal devices, music storage and playback appliances, vehicle-mounted wireless terminal devices, wireless endpoints, mobile stations, laptop-embedded equipment (LEE) , laptop-mounted equipment (LME) , USB dongles, smart devices, wireless customer-premises equipment (CPE) , an Internet of Things (IoT) device, a watch or other wearable, a head-mounted display (HMD) , a vehicle, a drone, a medical device and applications (e.g., remote surgery) , an industrial device and applications (e.g., a robot and / or other wireless devices operating in an industrial and / or an automated processing chain contexts) , a consumer electronics device, a device operating on commercial and / or industrial wireless networks, and the like. The terminal device may also correspond to a Mobile Termination (MT) part of an IAB node (e.g., a relay node) . In the following description, the terms “terminal device” , “communication device” , “terminal” , “user equipment” and “UE” may be used interchangeably.
[0037] As used herein, the term “resource, ” “transmission resource, ” “resource block, ” “physical resource block” (PRB) , “uplink resource, ” or “downlink resource” may refer to any resource for performing a communication, for example, a communication between a terminal device and a network device, such as a resource in time domain, a resource in frequency domain, a resource in space domain, a resource in code domain, or any other combination of the time, frequency, space and / or code domain resource enabling a communication, and the like. In the following, unless explicitly stated, a resource in both frequency domain and time domain will be used as an example of a transmission resource for describing some example embodiments of the present disclosure. It is noted that example embodiments of the present disclosure are equally applicable to other resources in other domains.
[0038] FIG. 1 illustrates an example communication environment 100 in which example embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented. In the communication environment 100, a network device 130 has a certain coverage range, which may be called as a serving area. One or more terminal devices may be located within or outside the serving area. As illustrated, a first apparatus (e.g., a terminal device) 110 and a second apparatus (e.g., another terminal device) 120 are located within the serving area of the network device 130 and can communicate with the network device 130. In other words, the first apparatus 110 and the second apparatus 120 are served by the network device 130.
[0039] As discussed above, in the example embodiments of FIG. 1, both the first apparatus 110 and the second apparatus 120 are terminal devices. Different terminal devices 110 may establish communication connections with each other. For example, the first apparatus 110 and the second apparatus 120 may establish communication connections with each other. The communications between the terminal devices 110 may be referred to as sidelink (SL) communications.
[0040] During a SL communication, the first apparatus 110 may communicate data and / or control information with the second apparatus 120. In a SL communication, a terminal device performing a transmission (also referred to as a SL transmission) is referred to as a transmitting (TX) device (or a transmitter) and the other terminal device receiving the transmission is referred to as a receiving (RX) device (or a receiver) . In some example embodiments, the RX device may provide feedback of the received SL transmission to the TX device. In some example embodiments of the present disclosure, the first apparatus 110 may receive the SL transmission from the second apparatus 120, and transmit the feedback on the PSFCH to the second apparatus 120. For purpose of discussion, in the following example embodiments, the apparatus that performs transmission on the PSFCH may be discussed with the first apparatus 110, which is also referred to as a UE in some cases.
[0041] It is to be understood that the number of devices and their connections shown in Fig. 1 are only for the purpose of illustration, without suggesting any limitation. The environment 100 may include any suitable number of devices adapted for implementing embodiments of the present disclosure. Although not shown, it would be appreciated that one or more additional devices may be located in serving area of the network device 130, and one or more additional cells may be deployed in the environment 100.
[0042] Communications in the communication environment 100 may be implemented according to any proper communication protocol (s) , comprising, but not limited to, cellular communication protocols of the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , the third generation (3G) , the fourth generation (4G) , the fifth generation (5G) , the sixth generation (6G) , and the like, wireless local network communication protocols such as Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 and the like, and / or any other protocols currently known or to be developed in the future. Moreover, the communication may utilize any proper wireless communication technology, comprising but not limited to: Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) , Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) , Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) , Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) , Time Division Duplex (TDD) , Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) , Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple (OFDM) , Discrete Fourier Transform spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) and / or any other technologies currently known or to be developed in the future.
[0043] Support of sidelink on unlicensed spectrum for both mode 1 and mode 2 has been studied at 3GPP, where Uu operation for mode 1 is limited to licensed spectrum only. Channel access mechanisms from NR-U may be reused for sidelink unlicensed operation, for example, by assessing the applicability of sidelink resource reservation from 3GPP Release (Rel) -16 / Rel-17 to sidelink unlicensed operation within the boundaries of unlicensed channel access mechanism and operation. If the existing NR-U channel access framework does not support the required SL-U functionality, appropriate recommendations may be made for 3GPP TSG RAN plenary approval.
[0044] Physical channel design framework is also studied as part of the work in 3GPP. For example, there are required changes to NR sidelink physical channel structures and procedures to operate on unlicensed spectrum. The existing NR sidelink and NR-U channel structure may be reused as the baseline.
[0045] In sub-7GHz unlicensed bands, the 5G new radio (NR) coexistence with other systems (e.g. IEEE 802.11) is ensured via a Listen Before Talk (LBT) channel access mechanism. A user equipment (UE) intending to perform a sidelink (SL) transmission needs to first successfully complete an LBT check, before being able to initiate transmission.
[0046] For a UE to pass an LBT check, it must observe the channel as available for a number of consecutive Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) slots. In sub-7GHz spectrum the duration of these slots is 9 μs. The UE deems the channel as available in a CCA slot if the measured power (i.e. the collected energy during the CCA slot) is below a regulatory specified threshold (which can depend on the operating band and geographical region) .
[0047] The scope of NR in unlicensed spectrum was limited to below 7 GHz bands. For this frequency range, the following spectrum regulatory requirements for the design of UL physical channels are provided.
[0048] Occupied Channel Bandwidth (OCB) shall be between 80%and 100%of the declared Nominal Channel Bandwidth.
[0049] The Occupied Channel Bandwidth is the bandwidth containing 99 %of the power of the signal.
[0050] During a Channel Occupancy Time (COT) , equipment may operate temporarily with an Occupied Channel Bandwidth of less than 80 %of its Nominal Channel Bandwidth with a minimum of 2 MHz.
[0051] Regulations on the maximum power spectral density are typically stated with a resolution bandwidth of 1 MHz. It is required a maximum Power Spectral Density (PSD) of 10 dBm / MHz for 5150-5350 MHz. 10 kHz resolution is required for testing the 1 MHz PSD constraint and, thus, the maximum PSD constraint should be met in any occupied 1 MHz bandwidth.
[0052] In addition, the regulations impose a band specific total maximum transmission power in terms of Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) , e.g., there is a EIRP limit of 23 dBm for 5150 –5350 MHz.
[0053] The limitations in terms of OCB and PSD may affect design choices for the UL channels of NR-unlicensed systems, such as an interlaced frequency division multiplexing (FDM) scheme shown in FIG. 2. In this interlaced FDM (e.g., UL resource allocation type 2) , the UL resources may be allocated in interlaces of 10 equidistant PRBs. The number of interlaces may be 10 for 15 kHz subcarrier spacing (SCS) , and 5 for 30 kHz SCS. The same interlaced RB resource allocation principle may be also used in Sidelink Unlicensed.
[0054] HARQ feedback may be transmitted over the PSFCH in response to the reception of a PSCCH / PSSCH transmission when the receiver is the intended receiver. The required transmission power may be calculated according to the PSFCH power control procedure, as described above. However, similar to all transmissions on n46 (i.e., 5200 MHz) , n96 (i.e., 6000 MHz) , and n102 (i.e., 6200 MHz) frequency bands, the PSFCH transmission may also comply with OCB and PSD regulations, as discussed above.
[0055] Various options may affect PSFCH transmission, for example, the PSFCH transmission with 15 kHz and 30 kHz SCS. For instance, a first option may require that each PSFCH transmission occupies a common interlace and dedicated PRB (s) , which may address the problem that arises with the PSFCH when applying interlaced FDM in SL-U in order to meet the OCB and PSD requirement. This technique may use a common interface with any (dummy) information to meet the OCB requirements, and transmit HARQ feedback in one or more dedicated RBs.
[0056] The PSFCH is transmitted in response to the reception of a PSCCH / PSSCH transmission (when the receiver is the intended receiver) and therefore it has an associated PSFCH power control procedure. The UE may perform multiple PSFCH transmissions in the same slot and each one is a narrow band transmission.
[0057] Taking a closer look at the PSFCH power control, when the UE operates under network coverage and the dl-P0-PSFCH is provided, then the power control is towards the serving cell and based on the number of PSFCH transmission in the same slot and not based on the required power towards the intended receiver. When the UE operates outside network coverage or the dl-P0-PSFCH is not provided (e.g. the sidelink resource pool takes place in resources not shared with Uu’s UL) then the power control is only dependent on the number of PSFCH transmission in the same slot and not limited by the pathloss to the gNB and related interference to the UL reception at the gNB. In other words, if the UE only has to perform one PSFCH transmission and no dl-P0-PSFCH is provided (i.e. no need to do power control towards the serving cell) then the UE will apply maximum transmission power given by PCMAX.
[0058] HARQ feedback is transmitted over the PSFCH in response to the reception of a PSCCH / PSSCH transmission (when the receiver is the intended receiver) . The required transmission power is calculated according to the PSFCH power control procedure. However, similar to all transmissions taking place over the n46 and n96 / n102 bands, the PSFCH transmission must also comply with the OCB and PSD regulations.
[0059] To comply with the OCB requirements, it has been agreed to transmit PSFCH using a combination of dedicated and common PRBs. Dedicated PRBs are a set of one or more PRBs that carry the actual PSFCH payload bits, while the common PRBs are in form of an interlace, with the purpose of ensuring that the transmission has large enough bandwidth to meet the OCB requirements.
[0060] The fact that each UE uses a common interlace or common RBs, and one or more dedicated RBs for the PSFCH transmission means that the common interlace / RBs may be used by multiple UEs. As a result, the power in such a common interlace may linearly increase with the number of UEs that need to transmit HARQ feedback, while the power of the dedicated RB may be smaller. This may result in additional, unnecessary interference that could interfere with the operation of other devices on the same spectrum, and also unnecessarily increase power consumption. Moreover, the common interlace may also cause inband emissions that interfere with the dedicated RBs. Thus, it is preferable to avoid using more TX power for the common interlace / RBs than what is required.
[0061] FIG. 3 illustrates an example of 20MHz bandwidth with 15kHz subcarrier spacing in which interlace 1 (i.e., RBs 1, 11, 21, …, 91) may be used as common interlaced by a plurality of UEs (for example, 5 UEs) , and RBs 4, 15, 83, 94 and 97 may be used as dedicated RBs for each UE. As shown in FIG. 3, if each UE transmits its dedicated and common RBs with the same power, the total power transmitted on the common RBs may be five times as large as the power on the dedicated RBs. This may cause interference to other UEs in the vicinity and / or may impact the decoding of the information transmitted on the dedicated RBs due to large power imbalance between dedicated and common RBs.
[0062] In sidelink operation on unlicensed spectrum, the PSFCH which carries HARQ-ACKs corresponding to data packets is transmitted using dedicated and common PRBs, where dedicated PRBs carry the actual payload bits, while common PRBs are transmitted to ensure that the PSFCH signal has a large enough bandwidth such that related regulatory requirements can be met.
[0063] Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a solution for determining the transmit power for the common interlace / RBs, such that the common interlaces do not impact the transmit power of the dedicated interlaces in case of power limitation. Example embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
[0064] FIG. 4 illustrates an example signaling diagram 400 of Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) power control according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For the purposes of discussion, the signaling diagram 400 will be discussed with reference to FIG. 1, for example, by using the first apparatus 110 and the second apparatus 120.
[0065] Example embodiments of FIG. 4 are related to sidelink operations on unlicensed spectrum. In these embodiments, the PSFCH which carries HARQ-ACKs corresponding to data packets is transmitted using a first set of RBs (for example, common PRBs) and a second set of RBs (for example, dedicated PRBs) . The dedicated PRBs may carry the actual payload bits, while the common PRBs are transmitted to ensure that the PSFCH signal has a large enough bandwidth to met regulatory requirements.
[0066] As shown in FIG. 4, the first apparatus 110 determines (405) that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) exceeds a configured power for the first apparatus 110, where the determined power comprises a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks.
[0067] The configured power may be a power which is configured or predetermined by the network device 130. For instance, the configured power may comprise a maximum output power configured for the PSFCH, e.g., denoted as Pcmax. It is to be noted that the maximum output power configured for the PSFCH may be just an example of the configured power. It is possible that the configured power has other values in other example embodiments of the present disclosure.
[0068] In some example embodiments, the first set of resource blocks may comprise at least one common physical resource block, and the second set of resource blocks may comprise at least one dedicated physical resource block.
[0069] Alternatively or in addition, in some example embodiments, the first set of resource blocks may comprise a subset of common physical resource blocks of a first interlace, and the second set of resource blocks comprise a subset of dedicated physical resource blocks of a second interlace.
[0070] The first apparatus 110 may first determine the first power and the second power and then determine (405) the power required by the transmission on the PSFCH based on the first and second powers. In some example embodiments, the first power may be computed based on a power for each resource block (for example, PRB) in the first set and the number of the PRBs in the first set. The second power may be computed based on a power for each resource block (for example, PRB) in the second set and the number of the PRBs in the second set.
[0071] If the power required by the PSFCH transmission exceeds the configured power, the first apparatus 110 performs (410) the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, where the first power of the first set of resource blocks may be reduced based on the configured power.
[0072] In some embodiments, the first power of the first set of resource blocks may be reduced to a target power, where a sum of the target power and the second power is less than or equal to the configured power. In some embodiments, the first power may be reduced by the first apparatus 110 per resource block. That is, the reduction of the first power is achieved by controlling the power of one or more resource blocks, for example, PRBs.
[0073] In some example embodiments, the power allocated for the first set of PRBs may be reduced until the sum of the power of the first and the second set of PRBs no longer exceeds the configured power for the first apparatus 110, for example, the UE’s maximum power.
[0074] Additionally, after the first power is reduced, the first apparatus 110 may determine whether an occupied channel bandwidth (OCB) requirement is met, for example, checking the regulation (s) on bandwidth and / or signal power, etc. If the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the first power is reduced, the first apparatus 110 may omit transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set that is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel. That is, transmission of some PRBs, e.g., the PRBs that are not the outermost ones, in the first set may be omitted.
[0075] Optionally, the first apparatus 110 may determine whether an OCB requirement is met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted. If not, the first apparatus 110 may reduce the second power of the second set of resource blocks.
[0076] As an alternative to the above power reducing way, in some example embodiments, the first power of the first set of resource blocks may be reduced by omitting transmission of at least one resource block of the resource blocks in the first set, that is, setting the power of those resource blocks to zero. In such case, the at least one resource block may be determined from the first set of resource blocks based on at least one of the configured power or an occupied channel bandwidth requirement.
[0077] In some example embodiments, the at least one resource block determined from the first set may be located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel. For instance, transmission of some PRBs, e.g., the PRBs that are not the outermost ones, in the first set may be omitted. In some cases, the first appratus 110 may determine not to transmit some of the PRBs in the first set of PRBs, if OCB requirement (s) can be met without transmitting those PRBs.
[0078] In this way, the dedicated PRBs can be transmitted with as high power as possible, even if the power on common PRBs might in some cases be as high as that of dedicated PRBs. As such, unnecessary interference and power consumption can be reduced.
[0079] FIG. 5 illustrates a flowchart of a process 500 for PSFCH power control according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure. The process 500 may be performed by the first apparatus 110 which performs PSFCH transmission as discussed above. For the purpose of discussion, the process 500 will be described from the perspective of the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1.
[0080] At block 510, the first apparatus 110 determines that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the first apparatus 110. That is, the power required by the transmission may comprise both the first power and the second power.
[0081] At block 520, the first apparatus 110 performs the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced based on the configured power.
[0082] In some example embodiments, the first apparatus 110 reduces the first power such that the power required by the transmission does not exceed the configured power of the first apparatus 110. Examples on how to reduce the first power are discussed herein but may include, for example, reducing power per resource block of the first set of resource blocks and / or omitting transmission of one or more of the first set of resource blocks.
[0083] In some example embodiments, the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced to a target power, wherein a sum of the target power and the second power is less than or equal to the configured power.
[0084] In some example embodiments, the first power is reduced by the apparatus per resource block.
[0085] In some example embodiments, the method 500 further comprises: determining a first number of the resource blocks in the first set and a second number of the resource blocks in the second set; and determining a third power for each resource block in the first set based on at least one of the configured power or a power threshold, the first number, the second number and a fourth power of each resource block in the second set.
[0086] In some example embodiments, the method 500 further comprises: determining whether an occupied channel bandwidth requirement is met after the first power is reduced; and in accordance with a determination that the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the first power is reduced, omitting transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set that is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.
[0087] In some example embodiments, the method 500 further comprises: determining whether an occupied channel bandwidth requirement is met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted; and in accordance with a determination that the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted, reducing the second power of the second set of resource blocks.
[0088] In some example embodiments, the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced by omitting transmission of at least one of the resource blocks in the first set, the at least one resource block being determined from the first set of resource blocks based on at least one of the configured power or an occupied channel bandwidth requirement.
[0089] In some example embodiments, the at least one resource block of the first set is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.
[0090] In some example embodiments, the configured power comprises a configured maximum power, for example, a maximum output power configured for the physical sidelink feedback channel. The maximum output power may be configured for example via RRC parameter sl-MaxTransPower, which indicates the maximum value of the UE's sidelink transmission power on this resource pool with the units of dBm.
[0091] In some example embodiments, the first set of resource blocks comprise at least one common physical resource block, and the second set of resource blocks comprise at least one dedicated physical resource block.
[0092] In some example embodiments, the first set of resource blocks comprise a subset of common physical resource blocks of a first interlace, and the second set of resource blocks comprise a subset of dedicated physical resource blocks of a second interlace.
[0093] The core idea is to scale the transmit power on the common interlaces depending on the UE’s total transmit power, and the UE’s maximum transmit power P_CMAX.
[0094] If the UE is not power limited when it comes to transmission of the dedicated PRBs (UE can transmit those with the maximum PSD allowed by the regulation, or at the TX power level calculated based on the pathloss) , the common PRBs are transmitted at a predefined power level relative to the power level of the dedicated PRBs (e.g. the power of each of the common PRBs is P_ (PSFCH, offset) lower than the power of the dedicated PRBs.
[0095] If the UE is power limited, i.e., the dedicated PRBs cannot be transmitted with the highest allowed PSD or at the TX power level calculated based on the pathloss, the UE shall reduce the transmit power allocated for the common PRBs, while maintaining the power on the dedicated PRBs at the maximum level allowed by the regulations (e.g., 10 or 11 dBm / MHz)
[0096] This may further involve omitting the transmission of some of the common PRBs, e.g. those that are not the outermost ones (i.e. closest to the edges of the channel) .
[0097] This may further involve limiting the reduction of the transmit power allocated for the common PRBs (such that the power on each one of the common RBs should be more than x %of the total Tx power) (to ensure that 99 %of the total PSFCH energy (dedicated + common PSFCH RBs) is allocated for RBs that span at least 80%of the nominal channel bandwidth) , where x may be configurable or fixed in the specification (e.g. x = 1 or 5%) .
[0098] To ensure that non-zero power is still allocated to the common PSFCH RBs, the reduction of the common PSFCH RBs power may be limited to a minimum power in absolute terms or as fraction of the total power.
[0099] In this way, unnecessary power consumption can be reduced and undesired interference can be avoided.
[0100] FIG. 6 illustrates a flowchart of an example process 600 for PSFCH power control according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure. It is to be understood that the process 600 is an implementation of the process 500. In the process 600, the transmission power (also referred to as “first power” ) of the first set of RBs is reduced by reducing the power of each RB in the first set. The process 600 may be also performed by the first apparatus 110 which performs PSFCH transmission as discussed above.
[0101] At 610, the first apparatus 110 determines that a power required by a transmission on a PSFCH comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus.
[0102] In example embodiments of the present embodiments, PSFCH, first may denote the common PRBs, and PSFCH, second may denote the dedicated PRBs. Thus, first set of resource blocks may refer to a set of common PRBs and second set of resource blocks may refer to a set of dedicated PRBs.
[0103] In some example embodiments, the first power may be determined based on PPSFCH, first*NPRB, PSFCH, first, (1)
[0104] where NPRB, PSFCH, first is the number of PRBs in the first set of RBs, for example, a subset of PRBs of a first interlace, and PPSFCH, first represents a power of each resource block in the first set.
[0105] Likewise, the second power may be determined based on PPSFCH, second*NPRB, PSFCH, second, (2)
[0106] where NPRB, PSFCH, second is the number of PRBs in the second set of RBs, for example, a subset of PRBs of a second interlace, and PPSFCH, second represents a power of each resource block in the second set.
[0107] With the first power and the second power, the first apparatus 110 determines the power required by the PSFCH transmission by computing the sum of the first power and the second power.
[0108] In some embodiments, the first apparatus 110 may compare the required power with the configured maximum power, e.g., denoted as PCMAX and determine whether the required power exceeds the maximum power, for instance, based on the following: PPSFCH, first*NPRB, PSFCH, first+ PPSFCH, second*NPRB, PSFCH, second> PCMAX (3)
[0109] At 620, the first apparatus 110 reduces the first power of the first set of resource blocks (for example, the common PRBs) based on the configured power. In some example embodiments, if the first apparatus 110 determines at 610 that the power required by the transmission on the PSFCH is over PCMAX, it may set the power of each PRB of the the set of common PRBs to be a new value, as indicated by equation (4) below. This enables the total power of the common PRBs to be less than PCMAX and thus power requirements may be met.
[0110] In an example implementation, the first apparatus 110 may set the PPSFCH, first to:
[0111] where NPRB, PSFCH, first is the number of PRBs in the subset of PRBs of a first interlace and NPRB, PSFCH, second is the number of PRBs in the subset of PRBs of a second interlace.
[0112] More details in this regard are provided in the following Table 1.Table 1
[0113] It is to be understood that the power control may also be formulated assuming logarithmic scale, which could similarly reflect in the specifications, for example as follows:
[0114] Table 2
[0115] At 630, the first apparatus 110 determines whether an OCB requirement is met after the reduction of the first power.
[0116] The OCB requirement may be implemented in various ways. For example, it may be required that the transmit power allocated for the common PRBs (such that the power on each one of the common RBs should be more than x %of the total Tx power in order to ensure that 99 %of the total PSFCH energy (dedicated + common PSFCH RBs) is allocated for RBs that span at least 80%of the nominal channel bandwidth) . The actual implementations of this aspect may be various in example embodiments of the present disclosure.
[0117] If the first apparatus 110 determines that the OCB requirement is met at 630, the process 600 goes to step 670 to perform the PSFCH transmission. If no, the process 600 goes to step 640, where the first apparatus 110 omit transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set that is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.
[0118] Then, at 650, the first apparatus 110 further determines whether an OCB requirement is met after the omission of transmission at 640. If yes, the process 600 goes to step 670 to perform the PSFCH transmission. If no, the process 600 goes to step 660, wherein the first apparatus 110 reduces the second power of the second set of RBs, for example, the dedicated PRBs.
[0119] FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of another example process 700 for PSFCH power control according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure. It is to be understood that, similar to the process 600, the process 700 is also an implementation of the process 500. Different from the process 600, in the process 700, the transmission power of the first set of RBs is reduced by omitting some transmission on the first set of RBs. The process 700 may be also performed by the first apparatus 110 which performs PSFCH transmission as discussed above.
[0120] At 710, the first apparatus 110 determines that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus.
[0121] At 720, the first apparatus 110 determines at least one resource block from the first set of resource blocks based on the configured power and / or an occupied channel bandwidth requirement.
[0122] At 730, the first apparatus 110 performs the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel by omitting transmission of the at least one resource block.
[0123] In some example embodiments, an apparatus capable of performing any of the method 500 (for example, the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1) may comprise means for performing the respective operations of the method 500. The means may be implemented in any suitable form. For example, the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module. The apparatus may be implemented as or included in the first apparatus 110 in FIG. 1.
[0124] In some example embodiments, the apparatus comprises means for determining that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus; and means for performing the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced based on the configured power.
[0125] In some example embodiments, the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced to a target power, wherein a sum of the target power and the second power is less than or equal to the configured power.
[0126] In some example embodiments, the first power is reduced by the apparatus per resource block.
[0127] In some example embodiments, the apparatus further comprises: means for determining a first number of the resource blocks in the first set and a second number of the resource blocks in the second set; and means for determining a third power for each resource block in the first set based on at least one of the configured power or a power threshold, the first number, the second number and a fourth power of each resource block in the second set.
[0128] In some example embodiments, the apparatus further comprises: means for determining whether an occupied channel bandwidth requirement is met after the first power is reduced; and means for in accordance with a determination that the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the first power is reduced, omitting transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set that is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.
[0129] In some example embodiments, the apparatus further comprises: means for determining whether an occupied channel bandwidth requirement is met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted; and means for in accordance with a determination that the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted, reducing the second power of the second set of resource blocks.
[0130] In some example embodiments, the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced by omitting transmission of at least one of the resource blocks in the first set, the at least one resource block being determined from the first set of resource blocks based on at least one of the configured power or an occupied channel bandwidth requirement.
[0131] In some example embodiments, the at least one resource block of the first set is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.
[0132] In some example embodiments, the configured power comprises a maximum output power configured for the physical sidelink feedback channel.
[0133] In some example embodiments, the first set of resource blocks comprise at least one common physical resource block, and the second set of resource blocks comprise at least one dedicated physical resource block.
[0134] In some example embodiments, the first set of resource blocks comprise a subset of common physical resource blocks of a first interlace, and the second set of resource blocks comprise a subset of dedicated physical resource blocks of a second interlace.
[0135] In some example embodiments, the apparatus further comprises means for performing other operations in some example embodiments of the method 500 or the first apparatus 110. In some example embodiments, the means comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the performance of the apparatus.
[0136] FIG. 8 is a simplified block diagram of a device 800 that is suitable for implementing example embodiments of the present disclosure. The device 800 may be provided to implement a communication device, for example, the first apparatus 110 or the second apparatus 120 as shown in FIG. 1. As shown, the device 800 includes one or more processors 810, one or more memories 820 coupled to the processor 810, and one or more communication modules 840 coupled to the processor 810.
[0137] The communication module 840 is for bidirectional communications. The communication module 840 has one or more communication interfaces to facilitate communication with one or more other modules or devices. The communication interfaces may represent any interface that is necessary for communication with other network elements. In some example embodiments, the communication module 840 may include at least one antenna.
[0138] The processor 810 may be of any type suitable to the local technical network and may include one or more of the following: general purpose computers, special purpose computers, microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and processors based on multicore processor architecture, as non-limiting examples. The device 800 may have multiple processors, such as an application specific integrated circuit chip that is slaved in time to a clock which synchronizes the main processor.
[0139] The memory 820 may include one or more non-volatile memories and one or more volatile memories. Examples of the non-volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a Read Only Memory (ROM) 824, an electrically programmable read only memory (EPROM) , a flash memory, a hard disk, a compact disc (CD) , a digital video disk (DVD) , an optical disk, a laser disk, and other magnetic storage and / or optical storage. Examples of the volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a random access memory (RAM) 822 and other volatile memories that will not last in the power-down duration.
[0140] A computer program 830 includes computer executable instructions that are executed by the associated processor 810. The instructions of the program 830 may include instructions for performing operations / acts of some example embodiments of the present disclosure. The program 830 may be stored in the memory, e.g., the ROM 824. The processor 810 may perform any suitable actions and processing by loading the program 830 into the RAM 822.
[0141] The example embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented by means of the program 830 so that the device 800 may perform any process of the disclosure as discussed with reference to FIG. 4 to FIG. 7. The example embodiments of the present disclosure may also be implemented by hardware or by a combination of software and hardware.
[0142] In some example embodiments, the program 830 may be tangibly contained in a computer readable medium which may be included in the device 800 (such as in the memory 820) or other storage devices that are accessible by the device 800. The device 800 may load the program 830 from the computer readable medium to the RAM 822 for execution. In some example embodiments, the computer readable medium may include any types of non-transitory storage medium, such as ROM, EPROM, a flash memory, a hard disk, CD, DVD, and the like. The term “non-transitory, ” as used herein, is a limitation of the medium itself (i.e., tangible, not a signal) as opposed to a limitation on data storage persistency (e.g., RAM vs. ROM) .
[0143] FIG. 9 shows an example of the computer readable medium 900 which may be in form of CD, DVD or other optical storage disk. The computer readable medium 900 has the program 830 stored thereon.
[0144] Generally, various embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented in hardware or special purpose circuits, software, logic or any combination thereof. Some aspects may be implemented in hardware, and other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device. Although various aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated and described as block diagrams, flowcharts, or using some other pictorial representations, it is to be understood that the block, apparatus, system, technique or method described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.
[0145] Some example embodiments of the present disclosure also provide at least one computer program product tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, such as a non-transitory computer readable medium. The computer program product includes computer-executable instructions, such as those included in program modules, being executed in a device on a target physical or virtual processor, to carry out any of the methods as described above. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, libraries, objects, classes, components, data structures, or the like that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The functionality of the program modules may be combined or split between program modules as desired in various embodiments. Machine-executable instructions for program modules may be executed within a local or distributed device. In a distributed device, program modules may be located in both local and remote storage media.
[0146] Program code for carrying out methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages. The program code may be provided to a processor or controller of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, such that the program code, when executed by the processor or controller, cause the functions / operations specified in the flowcharts and / or block diagrams to be implemented. The program code may execute entirely on a machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.
[0147] In the context of the present disclosure, the computer program code or related data may be carried by any suitable carrier to enable the device, apparatus or processor to perform various processes and operations as described above. Examples of the carrier include a signal, computer readable medium, and the like.
[0148] The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. A computer readable medium may include but not limited to an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of the computer readable storage medium would include an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM) , a read-only memory (ROM) , an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory) , an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) , an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
[0149] Further, although operations are depicted in a particular order, this should not be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results. In certain circumstances, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous. Likewise, although several specific implementation details are contained in the above discussions, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of the present disclosure, but rather as descriptions of features that may be specific to particular embodiments. Unless explicitly stated, certain features that are described in the context of separate embodiments may also be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, unless explicitly stated, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment may also be implemented in a plurality of embodiments separately or in any suitable sub-combination.
[0150] Although the present disclosure has been described in languages specific to structural features and / or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the present disclosure defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims.
Claims
1.An apparatus comprising:at least one processor; andat least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:determine that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus; andperform the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced based on the configured power.2.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced to a target power, wherein a sum of the target power and the second power is less than or equal to the configured power.3.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first power is reduced by the apparatus per resource block.4.The apparatus of any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the apparatus is caused to:determine a first number of the resource blocks in the first set and a second number of the resource blocks in the second set; anddetermine a third power for each resource block in the first set based on at least one of the configured power or a power threshold, the first number, the second number and a fourth power of each resource block in the second set.5.The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the apparatus is caused to:determine whether an occupied channel bandwidth requirement is met after the first power is reduced; andin accordance with a determination that the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the first power is reduced, omit transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set that is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.6.The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the apparatus is caused to:determine whether an occupied channel bandwidth requirement is met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted; andin accordance with a determination that the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted, reduce the second power of the second set of resource blocks.7.The apparatus of any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced by omitting transmission of at least one resource block of the resource blocks in the first set, the at least one resource block being determined from the first set of resource blocks based on at least one of the configured power or an occupied channel bandwidth requirement.8.The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least one resource block of the first set is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.9.The apparatus of any of claims 1 to 8, wherein the configured power comprises a maximum output power configured for the physical sidelink feedback channel.10.The apparatus of any of claims 1 to 9, wherein the first set of resource blocks comprise at least one common physical resource block, and the second set of resource blocks comprise at least one dedicated physical resource block.11.The apparatus of any of claims 1 to 9, wherein the first set of resource blocks comprise a subset of common physical resource blocks of a first interlace, and the second set of resource blocks comprise a subset of dedicated physical resource blocks of a second interlace.12.A method comprising:determining that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus; andperforming the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced based on the configured power.13.The method of claim 12, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced to a target power, wherein a sum of the target power and the second power is less than or equal to the configured power.14.The method of claim 12, wherein the first power is reduced by the apparatus per resource block.15.The method of any of claims 12 to 14, further comprising:determining a first number of the resource blocks in the first set and a second number of the resource blocks in the second set; anddetermining a third power for each resource block in the first set based on at least one of the configured power or a power threshold, the first number, the second number and a fourth power of each resource block in the second set.16.The method of claim 15, further comprising:determining whether an occupied channel bandwidth requirement is met after the first power is reduced; andin accordance with a determination that the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the first power is reduced, omitting transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set that is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.17.The method of claim 15, further comprising:determining whether an occupied channel bandwidth requirement is met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted; andin accordance with a determination that the occupied channel bandwidth requirement is not met after the transmission of the at least one resource block of the first set is omitted, reducing the second power of the second set of resource blocks.18.The method of any of claims 12 to 14, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced by omitting transmission of at least one of the resource blocks in the first set, the at least one resource block being determined from the first set of resource blocks based on at least one of the configured power or an occupied channel bandwidth requirement.19.The method of claim 18, wherein the at least one resource block of the first set is located at a distance from an outermost resource block of the physical sidelink feedback channel.20.The method of any of claims 12 to 19, wherein the configured power comprises a maximum output power configured for the physical sidelink feedback channel.21.The method of any of claims 12 to 20, wherein the first set of resource blocks comprise at least one common physical resource block, and the second set of resource blocks comprise at least one dedicated physical resource block.22.The method of any of claims 12 to 20, wherein the first set of resource blocks comprise a subset of common physical resource blocks of a first interlace, and the second set of resource blocks comprise a subset of dedicated physical resource blocks of a second interlace.23.An apparatus comprising:means for determining that a power required by a transmission on a physical sidelink feedback channel comprising a first power of a first set of resource blocks and a second power of a second set of resource blocks exceeds a configured power for the apparatus; andmeans for performing the transmission on the physical sidelink feedback channel, wherein the first power of the first set of resource blocks is reduced based on the configured power.24.A computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon for causing an apparatus at least to perform the method of any of claims 12-22.