APPARATUS AND METHOD

Organization Name

Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor(s)

Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas of Gistrup DK

Ling Yu of Kauniainen FI

Torsten Wildschek of Gloucester Gloucestershire GB

Renato Barbosa Abreu of Aalborg DK

Timo Erkki Lunttila of Espoo FI

Laura Luque Sanchez of Nibe DK

Vinh Van Phan of Oulu FI

Yong Liu of Shanghai CN

Jianguo Liu of Minhang Shanghai CN

Naizheng Zheng of Beijing CN

APPARATUS AND METHOD

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18859576 titled 'APPARATUS AND METHOD

Original Abstract Submitted

A method and an apparatus for a second user equipment, that causes the apparatus to perform: determining whether a synchronization signal has been received during a first set of synchronization resources; and when it is determined the synchronization signal was received, determining that the apparatus is allowed to use communication resources during a second set of synchronization resources for a first sidelink communication; and when it is determined the synchronization was not received, abstaining from using the communication resources during the second set of synchronization resources for a first sidelink communication; and monitoring the second set of synchronization resources for a synchronization signal.