Patent ID: 11950208
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A user equipment (UE), comprising a memory and one or more processors configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory, cause the UE to:
identify a transport block (TB) for transmission to a UE;
determine a total number of sub-channels (NSL) in a resource pool for sidelink communication;
determine a number of sub-channels (Lsub) of the TB;
determine a first starting sub-channel index x1 of a first retransmission of the TB;
determine a frequency resource indication value (FRIV) based on a predetermined function:, FRIV
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encode the FRIV in sidelink control information (SCI); and
cause transmission of the SCI to the UE.