Patent ID: 11956670
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a transceiver configured to communicate with at least a further UE via a sidelink (SL); and
a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to perform operations comprising:
establishing a first unicast link with the further UE for non-routed traffic between the UE and the further UE;
establishing a second unicast link with the further UE for routed traffic to a base station of a network;
encoding traffic for transmission to the further UE, wherein the traffic is one of non-routed traffic and routed traffic and wherein the traffic comprises a payload and a medium access control (MAC) subheader; and
transmitting the traffic to the further UE.