Patent ID: 11895591
Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for a User Equipment (UE) to consider sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) for sidelink groupcast communication associated with a group, comprising:
obtaining or being configured with a sidelink DRX configuration applied for the sidelink groupcast communication associated with the group, wherein the sidelink DRX configuration comprises at least one of an on-duration timer length used for determining an on-duration at the beginning of each sidelink DRX cycle or a cycle length used for determining a length of each sidelink DRX cycle;
determining an identifier associated with the group;
deriving or determining a time to start of on-duration for each sidelink DRX cycle or start of each sidelink DRX cycle based on (i) a derived value of “(part of the identifier) mod (the cycle length)” or (ii) a derived value of “(the identifier) mod (the cycle length)”; and
transmitting a sidelink control information associated with the group on a sidelink control channel in a period, wherein the period is determined based on the sidelink DRX configuration and the time to start of on-duration for each sidelink DRX cycle or start of each sidelink DRX cycle.