Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to
wireless communication. In some aspects, a
user equipment (UE) can identify, from one or more channel sensing
modes for sensing
channel availability of a sidelink channel, a channel sensing mode for a communication on the sidelink channel, each of the one or more channel sensing
modes being associated with a set of resources. The UE can transmit the communication on the sidelink channel in accordance with the channel sensing mode using resources selected from the set of resources associated with the channel sensing mode. Numerous other aspects are provided.