Patent ID: 11924796
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a memory;
at least one transceiver; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory and the at least the transceiver, the at least one processor configured to:
establish, with a peer sidelink UE, at least one sidelink communications link that each comprises one or more hops;
estimate, while the UE is unsynchronized with respect to a network clock, a propagation delay between the UE and the peer sidelink UE based in part upon a relationship between a propagation time, between the UE and the peer sidelink UE, and Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP); and
determine, while the UE is unsynchronized with respect to the network clock, a reference timing based on the estimated propagation delay.