Patent ID: 11929952
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A method of operating a first user equipment (UE), comprising:
determining a sidelink positioning reference signal (PRS) pattern for a sidelink position estimation procedure, the sidelink PRS pattern including at least one PRS transmission occasion for each of a group of UEs on a shared communication medium; and
performing one or more attempts to transmit a first PRS on one or more PRS transmission occasions associated with the first UE in accordance with the sidelink PRS pattern,
wherein the group of UEs comprises the first UE and at least one other UE,
wherein the sidelink PRS pattern includes N PRS transmission occasions associated with the first UE, and
wherein the sidelink PRS pattern includes N PRS transmission occasions that are split between the first UE and the at least one other UE, with each of the N PRS transmission occasions associated with the first UE being paired with one respective PRS transmission occasion from among the N PRS transmission occasions that are split between the first UE and the at least one other UE.