SIDELINK TRANSMISSION ENHANCEMENT

Organization Name

nokia technologies oy

Inventor(s)

Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas of Aalborg DK

Tao Tao of Shanghai CN

Ling Yu of Espoo FI

Vinh Van Phan of Oulu FI

Yong Liu of Shanghai CN

Naizheng Zheng of Beijing CN

SIDELINK TRANSMISSION ENHANCEMENT

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240259823 titled 'SIDELINK TRANSMISSION ENHANCEMENT

Original Abstract Submitted

example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to sidelink (sl) transmission enhancement. a first device determines a channel occupancy time (cot) to be shared by the first device and at least one second device for transmissions on a shared radio frequency band; selects a first time slot during the cot for a transmission; and performs the transmission in the first time slot by extending the transmission to a first guard period of the first time slot or to a second guard period of a second time slot prior to the first time slot during the cot. by doing so, a channel access procedure requiring a smaller time gap between transmissions can be selected and performed, which can thus improve the flexibility of channel access procedures for sl transmission in the shared frequency band.