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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Qian Li, Beaverton, OR (US);
Guangjie Li, Beijing, CN;
Geng Wu, Portland, OR (US);
Xiaoyun May Wu, Portland, OR (US);
Joonbeom Kim, Carrollton, TX (US);
Hassan Ghozlan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Dawei Ying, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Satish Chandra Jha, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Yaser M. Fouad, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Lu Lu, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Apple Inc., Cu, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a network User Equipment (nUE), wearable User Equipment (wUE), and methods for sidelink communication are generally described herein. The nUE may transmit a control channel that allocates a subframe as either a downlink subframe or an uplink subframe for a sidelink communication between the nUE and a wearable User Equipment (wUE). When the control channel allocates the subframe as a downlink subframe, the nUE may contend for access to channel resources. The contention may include transmission of a transmitter resources acquisition and sounding (TAS) channel in a physical resource block (PRB) and an attempted detection of a receiver resources acquisition and sounding (RAS) channel from the wUE in the PRB. When the control channel allocates the subframe as an uplink subframe, the wUE may contend for access to the channel resources.