Patent ID: 11864163
Assignee: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory digital storage medium having a computer program stored thereon to perform, when said computer program is run by a computer, the method for operating an apparatus of a wireless communication system comprising one or more base stations and a plurality of user devices, UEs, the apparatus connected to one or more of the plurality of UEs via a sidelink for a sidelink communication with the one or more UEs, the apparatus and the one or more UEs forming a group of UEs and using a set of group resources to be used for the sidelink communication within the group of UEs, the method comprising:
in case a base station does not provide resource allocation configuration or assistance, selecting, by the apparatus, resources from a set of resources provided by the wireless communication system so as to alter or completely change the set of group resources to be used for the sidelink communication within the group of UEs,
wherein the apparatus is a leader UE of the group formed by the apparatus and the one or more UEs, and
wherein in case the base station does not provide resource allocation configuration or assistance, the leader UE sends, responsive to a demand for resource allocation information for the sidelink communication within the group of UEs or in an event-triggered manner, a group resource reservation announcement exclusively sensed or selected by the leader UE from the set of resources, the group resource reservation announcement to be used for the sidelink communication within the group of UEs.