Sidelink Resource Selection With Multi-Occasion HARQ Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

In sidelink communication on unlicensed spectrum, there is no mechanism for selecting PSSCH resources when there is a one-to-many relationship between PSSCH and PSFCH, leading to resource waste and decoding failures due to channel access failures and receiving errors.

Innovation Solution

A resource selection method that allows one time of PSSCH transmission to correspond to multiple times of PSFCH transmission, ensuring a time gap between transmissions and adjusting the number of PSFCH feedback occasions based on HARQ feedback time and SCI indication limitations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of energy

If one time of PSSCH transmission corresponds to only one time of PSFCH feedback (one-to-one relationship), then the feedback mechanism is simple, but resource waste occurs due to excessive retransmission and channel access failures

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource wasteVSAvoidfeedback mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The feedback mechanism is segmented by allowing one PSSCH transmission to correspond to multiple PSFCH feedback occasions (one-to-many relationship). This segmentation enables the system to provide multiple feedback opportunities for a single transmission, reducing resource waste from unnecessary retransmissions while maintaining manageable complexity through structured resource selection procedures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If multiple PSFCH feedback occasions are provided for one PSSCH transmission, then resource waste is reduced, but the resource selection mechanism becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission efficiencyVSAvoidresource selection mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The resource selection mechanism is made dynamic by enabling the system to adaptively choose from multiple PSFCH feedback occasions based on actual channel conditions and reception outcomes. The receiving end can dynamically select which feedback occasion to use for sending feedback, optimizing transmission efficiency while the standardized selection procedures keep implementation complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The one-to-many PSSCH-PSFCH relationship implements a feedback mechanism where multiple feedback occasions are provided, and the system uses feedback from these occasions to determine whether retransmission is needed. This feedback loop improves productivity by reducing unnecessary retransmissions, while the structured feedback procedures maintain acceptable device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If a time gap between consecutive PSSCH transmissions is executed according to related technology, then the feedback timing is simple, but the receiving end may cancel subsequent retransmission in case of receiving failure

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata decoding success rateVSAvoidresource selection mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring multiple PSFCH feedback occasions before the actual feedback is sent. This allows the receiving end to have multiple opportunities to send feedback without canceling subsequent retransmissions, improving reliability by ensuring data decoding success while the pre-defined occasion structure keeps the mechanism complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Adaptability or versatility

If one PSSCH transmission corresponds to multiple PSFCH transmissions, then multiple feedback opportunities are provided, but no PSSCH resource selection mechanism exists for this one-to-many relationship

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback flexibilityVSAvoidresource selection mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The resource selection mechanism is designed with universality by creating a standardized procedure that works for the one-to-many PSSCH-PSFCH relationship. The same resource selection principles and procedures used in traditional one-to-one scenarios can be applied here, allowing the mechanism to handle both cases uniformly. This provides adaptability and flexibility for multiple feedback occasions while avoiding the need for entirely new complex selection mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP4546693B1Resource selection method and device suitable for sidelink, and user equipment
Publication Date: 2026.02.25 DATANG GOHIGH INTELLIGENT & CONNECTED TECH (CHONGQING) CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention relates to the technical field of communications, and provides a resource selection method and device suitable for a sidelink, and a user equipment. The method is applied to a first user equipment and comprises: performing resource selection in a resource pool supporting HARQ feedback, wherein the selected resources are used for a PSCCH transmission and a PSSCH transmission; and the correspondence between the PSSCH transmission and a PSFCH transmission comprises at least one of the following: one PSSCH transmission corresponds to M1 PSFCH transmissions located on different time units; and one PSSCH transmission at most corresponds to M2 PSFCH transmissions located on different time units, wherein M1 and M2 are configured or pre-configured positive integers, and a PSFCH is used for bearing HARQ feedback information.