Patent ID: 11889517
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of wireless communication, the method comprising:
receiving, by a first user equipment (UE), from a second UE over a sidelink, a sidelink transmission during a reception occasion that includes a plurality of reception opportunities for the first UE, wherein each reception opportunity of the plurality of reception opportunities includes a repetition of a sidelink control information (SCI) message transmitted by the second UE;
decoding the SCI message, wherein decoding the SCI message includes combining the repetition of the SCI message received in one or more reception opportunities of the plurality of reception opportunities, and wherein combining the repetition of the SCI message includes combining a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) calculated for each repetition of the SCI message; and
decoding a data transmission, received from the second UE over the sidelink, using the decoded SCI message.