Half-Duplex Resource Exclusion for V2X Packet Repetitions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Half duplex-based communication systems, such as vehicle-to-anything (V2X) networks, face inefficiencies due to packet loss and increased network resource utilization from repetitive transmissions, leading to reduced network throughput and interference.

Innovation Solution

UEs in the network communicate reserved resources for redundancy versions of packets, allowing other UEs to exclude conflicting resources, thereby reducing collisions and interference.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If repetitions of transmissions are sent to ensure receipt in half duplex systems, then reliability is improved, but network resource utilization increases and throughput decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission receipt reliabilityVSAvoidnetwork throughput
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by having the transmitting UE indicate reserved resources for future repetitions before actually transmitting them. The UE sends control information specifying which time resources will be reserved for redundancy versions, allowing receiving UEs to exclude these resources from their own transmission schedules in advance, thereby preventing collisions before they occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism through control information messages that carry reserved resource indications. This intermediary layer of communication between transmitting and receiving UEs enables coordination without requiring direct simultaneous transmission, allowing the system to manage half-duplex constraints more efficiently and reduce unnecessary repetitions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If repetitions of transmissions are sent to ensure receipt in half duplex systems, then reliability is improved, but interference in the network increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission receipt reliabilityVSAvoidnetwork interference
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by having the transmitting UE indicate reserved resources for future repetitions before actually transmitting them. The UE sends control information specifying which time resources will be reserved for redundancy versions, allowing receiving UEs to exclude these resources from their own transmission schedules in advance, thereby preventing collisions before they occur.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Device complexity

If UEs transmit without coordinating reserved resources, then device complexity is reduced, but resource collisions and packet loss increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveUE transmission control complexityVSAvoidpacket receipt reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies self-service by enabling UEs to autonomously manage their own transmission resources by receiving and processing reserved resource indications from other UEs. Each UE independently excludes conflicting resources from its transmission schedule based on control information it receives, eliminating the need for centralized coordination while improving packet receipt reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3881466B1Resource exclusion in a half duplex based wireless communication system
Publication Date: 2026.01.28 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a packet on a first resource, determining one or more repetition resources on which to send one or more redundancy versions of the packet, wherein the one or more repetition resources are at a time subsequent to the first resource, transmitting repetition resource information identifying the one or more repetition resources to one or more neighboring UEs, and transmitting the one or more redundancy versions of the packet on respective ones of the one or more repetition resources.