FIRST USER DEVICE, NETWORK ENTITY, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD

Abstract

This invention relates to wireless communication. In some respects, the first user equipment (UE) can receive, from the second UE on the sublink, an indicator of the sublink status. Accordingly, the first UE can transmit to the base station a request for additional resources for the sublink, based at least in part on determining that the sublink status indicator satisfies the conditions. For example, the first UE can determine that the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) is supported by the current resources of the sublink outside the MCS range permitted by the base station. In some respects, the request may include a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) signal, and the first UE may also transmit a scheduling request to transmit the sublink status indicator. The invention also addresses the network entity and wireless communication method.