Patent ID: 11937211
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 23:
24. An article of manufacture for use by a first apparatus in a wireless communication network, the article comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions executable by a processor of the first apparatus to:
identify a plurality of periodic communication resource sets (ComReSets) dedicated to sidelink communication, each of the periodic ComReSets occurring periodically in time, according to a resource pool configuration that comprises a plurality of parameters including a periodicity parameter for each ComReSet, a ComReSet quantity parameter, and a size parameter for each ComReSet;
select a first periodic ComReSet from the plurality of periodic ComReSets, wherein the selection of the first periodic ComReSet is based, at least in part, on a scan of the plurality of periodic ComReSets to identify the first periodic ComReSet for a sidelink connection as being agreed upon by the first apparatus and a second apparatus;
establish the sidelink connection with the second apparatus using the first periodic ComReSet selected from the plurality of periodic ComReSets; and
communicate with the second apparatus using the first periodic ComReSet for sidelink communication.