Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company, Limited

Yuyi Mao

Xiangyu Liu

Eddy Chiu

Yun Hou

Kong Chau Eric Tsang

Man Wai Kwan

Yaming Luo

Man Wai Victor Kwan

Ching Hong Chris Leung

Described is a method of decoding a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The method comprises: for a PSCCH candidate in a resource grid, processing a received demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a subframe of the resource grid associated with the PSCCH candidate to determine one or more potential PSCCHs for decoding, each of the one or more potential PSCCHs being identified by resource block (RB) position in the resource grid and a corresponding DMRS cyclic shift (n) value. This step is repeated for at least one other DMRS in the subframe to determine one or more potential PSCCHs for the at least one other DMRS. Then, a subset L of PSCCHs is selected from the potential PSCCHs. The selected subset L of PSCCHs together with their corresponding DMRS cyclic shift (n) values are made available for use in a decoding process for the received channel signal.

Method of processing a received channel signal in a device to device communications link using multiple reference signals

Described is a method of decoding a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) involving physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) resource grid search space reduction, timing offset (TO) estimation, and reference symbol identification. Resource grid search space reduction may include identifying resource blocks (RBs) having a signal power below a first threshold such that said RBs can be excluded from further processing. Search space reduction may additionally or alternatively include identifying RB pairs where a difference in signal power between the RBs comprising each pair of RBs is above a second threshold and excluding any such said RB pairs from further processing. TO compensation may include circularly correlating TO-compensated received DMRSs and their corresponding local DMRSs to obtain energy or power profiles. From the energy/power profiles, a subset L of highest stored power values and their corresponding cyclic shift (n) values can be chosen where said power values are equal to or exceed a third threshold. The selected subset L can be made available for use in a decoding process for a received channel signal.

Method of processing a received channel signal in a device to device communications link

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