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

Claim 24:
25. A method of wireless communication, the method comprising:
transmitting, by a base station, a transmission grant to a first user equipment (UE) to transmit a sidelink transmission to a second UE during at least one reception occasion of the second UE, wherein the sidelink transmission includes a data transmission and a sidelink control information (SCI) message, wherein each reception occasion of the at least one reception occasion includes a plurality of reception opportunities for transmitting, from the first UE to the second UE, a repetition of the SCI message in each reception opportunity of the plurality of reception opportunities, and wherein the second UE is configured to:
combine the repetition of the SCI message transmitted in one or more reception opportunities of the plurality of reception opportunities to decode the SCI message, wherein, to combine the repetition of the SCI message, the second UE is configured to combine a log-likelihood ration (LLR) calculated for each repetition of the SCI message; and
decode the data transmission using the decoded SCI message.