Sidelink Resource Selection via Conditional Reception

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication technologies face challenges in efficiently managing sidelink resources, leading to collisions and decreased throughput due to adherence to non-preferred resources, which can result in interrupted high-priority communications and failure to meet quality of service requirements.

Innovation Solution

A method where user equipment (UE) exchanges coordination information about preferred and non-preferred sidelink resources, allowing for conditional reception and transmission based on priority and packet delay budgets, enabling selection of non-preferred resources for high-priority communications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If UEs adhere to non-preferred sidelink resources to avoid collisions, then resource collision is reduced, but high-priority communications are interrupted and throughput decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource collision avoidanceVSAvoidthroughput
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic resource selection by allowing UEs to switch between preferred and non-preferred resources based on communication priority. High-priority communications can dynamically override the non-preferred resource restrictions, creating a flexible system that adapts to varying QoS requirements while maintaining collision avoidance for normal traffic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the resource selection parameter based on priority levels. For high-priority communications, the resource preference parameter is inverted or overridden, allowing transmission on non-preferred resources. This parameter change enables the system to optimize throughput for critical communications without compromising the collision avoidance mechanism for standard traffic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If UEs strictly follow coordination information indicating non-preferred resources, then resource allocation efficiency is improved, but quality of service requirements cannot be met for high-priority communications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource allocation efficiencyVSAvoidquality of service adherence
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the resource selection process into different priority levels. Normal communications follow the coordination information and use preferred resources, while high-priority communications are segmented into a separate category that can override the coordination information. This segmentation allows the system to maintain overall allocation efficiency while ensuring QoS for critical traffic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The priority level acts as an intermediary between the coordination information and the actual resource selection. When high-priority communication is detected, the priority level mediates by allowing the UE to ignore the non-preferred resource indication and select appropriate resources that meet QoS requirements, thus bridging the conflict between efficiency and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20220361148A1Conditional reception availability for sidelink communications
Publication Date: 2022.11.10 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, coordination information indicating a non-preferred sidelink resource. The UE may transmit a communication on the non-preferred sidelink resource when a condition associated with the communication is satisfied. Numerous other aspects are described.