Patent ID: 11943832
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A base station (BS) comprising:
a processor configured to generate a first indicator requesting a report of a set of sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configurations for SL communications among user equipments (UEs); and
a transceiver operably connected to the processor, the transceiver configured to:
transmit, to a UE among the UEs, a downlink signal including the first indicator; and
receive, from the UE, an uplink signal including the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations based on the first indicator indicating that the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations is requested,

wherein the processor is further configured to configure, based on the report of the set of the SL DRX configurations, a network DRX configuration for an interface between a UE and a network entity including the BS.