Patent ID: 11910365
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 22:
23. A method for wireless communications at a network entity, comprising:
transmitting, by the network entity to a group of user equipments (UEs), a first indication of a configuration of a sidelink resource pool for the group of UEs, wherein the sidelink resource pool comprises one or more slots in a time domain and one or more subchannels in a frequency domain, and wherein a slot of the sidelink resource pool comprises a control region allocated for a sidelink control channel and a set of contiguous subslots each allocated for a sidelink data channel;
transmitting, by the network entity, a second indication for the sidelink resource pool of a subslot pattern for the slot of the sidelink resource pool, the subslot pattern indicating a quantity of subslots within the slot and a length of each subslot of the quantity of subslots;
identifying, by the network entity, one or more subslots from the subslot pattern for the set of contiguous subslots that are available for sidelink communications; and
transmitting, by the network entity to a UE of the group of UEs, an indication that the one or more subslots are reserved for a sidelink transmission by the UE associated with the sidelink communications.