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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Yuqin Chen, Shenzhen, CN;
Murtaza A. Shikari, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sree Ram Kodali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Srirang A. Lovlekar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Irvine, CA (US);
Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;
Haijing Hu, Beijing, CN;
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US);
Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US);
Xu Ou, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing unicast sidelink access stratum level connection maintenance. A first wireless device and a second wireless device may establish a unicast sidelink wireless connection. One or both of the first wireless device and the second wireless device may perform access stratum level connection maintenance on the unicast sidelink wireless connection. This may include performing any or all of radio link monitoring, radio resource management, or physical layer based link quality detection. The access stratum and the non-access stratum of each device may also communicate with each other regarding either or both of link quality or link status of the unicast sidelink wireless connection.