Sidelink Resource Reselection for Overlap Avoidance

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Solution Overview

Problem

In wireless communication systems, particularly in sidelink communications, there is a need to efficiently manage resource reservations to avoid overlaps and prioritize transmissions, as existing technologies do not effectively handle resource reselection and preemption in scenarios where multiple user equipment (UEs) compete for shared resources.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that determine whether resources selected by a UE for sidelink communication overlap with resources reserved by other UEs, allowing for the reselection or reservation of these resources based on priority and packet delay budget thresholds, enabling efficient resource management and transmission planning.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If UEs reserve resources for sidelink transmissions, then resource utilization is improved, but resource overlaps and conflicts increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource utilizationVSAvoidresource overlaps and conflicts
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary sensing and resource selection before actual transmission, allowing UEs to identify and avoid overlapping resources in advance. The UE senses the channel, selects resources that do not overlap with reservations from other UEs, and reserves them before transmission occurs, preventing conflicts rather than resolving them after they arise.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where UEs monitor the sidelink channel for reservations made by other UEs and adjust their own resource selections accordingly. This continuous feedback loop allows dynamic resource adjustment to avoid overlaps while maintaining high resource utilization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Object-affected harmful factors

If UEs reselect resources upon detecting overlaps, then resource conflicts are reduced, but transmission delay increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource conflictsVSAvoidtransmission delay
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Resource reselection is performed in advance during the sensing and selection phase before the actual transmission deadline. By completing resource selection and detecting potential overlaps beforehand, the system avoids last-minute reselection that would cause transmission delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts resource selection based on real-time channel sensing and reservation detection. UEs can adaptively choose between reselecting resources or proceeding with current selections based on the detected level of overlap and the remaining time before transmission deadlines, optimizing the balance between conflict avoidance and delay minimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If UEs preempt reservations of other UEs, then resource utilization efficiency is improved, but system reliability decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource utilization efficiencyVSAvoidtransmission reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the priority parameter of different UEs and their transmissions, allowing higher priority UEs to preempt lower priority reservations. This parameter-based approach enables controlled preemption where resource utilization efficiency is improved for high-priority traffic while maintaining reliability for critical communications through priority differentiation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4062693B1Resource reselection in sidelink
Publication Date: 2024.11.13 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

A user equipment (UE) determines that at least one resource of a first set of resources selected by the UE for sidelink communication overlaps with a second set of resources reserved by a set of UEs. The UE determines whether to reselect at least a subset of the first set of resources for a sidelink transmission upon determining that the at least one resource is an overlapping resource. The at least a subset of the first set of resources includes one of a first overlapping resource of the overlapping resource, the overlapping resource, or the overlapping resource and at least a subset of non-overlapping resources of the first set of resources.