Patent ID: 11910358
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving at a first user equipment based on a decision of a second user equipment, a resource allocation from the second user equipment;
receiving, at the first user equipment from the second user equipment, a notification of a determination of whether to transmit, from the second user equipment, a sidelink control information associated to a transmission using the resource allocation over a control channel; and
receiving, at the first user equipment, the transmission of the sidelink control information over the control channel using the resource allocation,
wherein the transmission of the sidelink control information comprises an indicator which indicates whether the control channel is transmitted by the second user equipment or by the first user equipment, and which triggers the first user equipment or the second user equipment to measure a channel busy ratio of other user equipment in proximity to the first user equipment or the second user equipment.