Sidelink Resource Pool Segmentation for V2X Signal Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

In wireless communication systems, particularly in sidelink operations for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, the inefficiency due to multiplexing of different Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) lengths leads to resource fragmentation and inefficiency, as different PSSCH lengths are often multiplexed within a single resource pool, causing additional automatic gain control (AGC) operations and degradation in signal reception accuracy.

Innovation Solution

The system separates resource pools based on different PSSCH lengths, allowing only preferred or allowable PSSCH lengths to be used, preventing resource fragmentation and inefficiency by ensuring consistent PSSCH lengths within each pool, thereby avoiding additional AGC operations and maintaining signal reception accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If different PSSCH lengths are multiplexed within a single resource pool, then resource utilization flexibility is improved, but resource fragmentation and inefficiency occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource utilization flexibilityVSAvoidresource efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the resource pool into multiple separate resource pools based on PSSCH length categories (e.g., short PSSCH resource pool and long PSSCH resource pool). This segmentation prevents mixing of different PSSCH lengths in the same resource pool, thereby avoiding resource fragmentation while maintaining flexibility through multiple specialized pools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If different PSSCH lengths are multiplexed within a single resource pool, then resource allocation flexibility is improved, but additional AGC operations are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource allocation flexibilityVSAvoidAGC operation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments resource pools by PSSCH length, creating separate pools for short and long PSSCH transmissions. This ensures that each resource pool contains only PSSCHs of a consistent length, thereby eliminating the need for additional AGC operations that would be required when different PSSCH lengths are multiplexed together.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If different PSSCH lengths are multiplexed within a single resource pool, then transmission versatility is improved, but signal reception accuracy degrades

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission versatilityVSAvoidsignal reception accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides resource pools based on PSSCH length to prevent multiplexing of different lengths. This segmentation ensures consistent signal characteristics within each resource pool, maintaining signal reception accuracy while preserving transmission versatility through multiple specialized pools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by creating resource pools with uniform PSSCH length characteristics. Each resource pool is optimized for its specific PSSCH length type, ensuring that signals within the same pool have consistent properties that facilitate accurate reception, while the system as a whole maintains versatility through multiple pools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP4236163B1Method by which terminal performs sidelink operation in wireless communication system, and terminal using method
Publication Date: 2024.05.22 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

Proposed is a method for performing a sidelink operation in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal. The method comprises: selecting a preferred resource pool from among a plurality of resource pools, wherein the preferred resource pool is one of a first resource pool including a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource and a second resource pool without the PSFCH resource; and, on the basis of a re-selection condition, performing the sidelink operation on the first resource pool or the second resource pool.