MULTIPLEXING REFERENCE SIGNALS WITH SIDELINK SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCK: abstract simplified (17695549)

The abstract describes a method for configuring a communication slot in a user equipment (UE) for sidelink (SL) communication. The slot is divided into symbols and subcarriers, and a synchronization signal block (S-SSB) is allocated to occupy some of the symbols and subcarriers. However, it is determined that the allocated resources do not meet the occupied channel bandwidth (OCB) constraint. To address this, a reference signal (RS) is multiplexed across the symbols occupied by the S-SSB in other resource blocks of the channel. This allows the UE to meet the OCB constraint and the slot is transmitted with both the S-SSB and the multiplexed RS.