Patent ID: 11877330
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A method for communications, comprising:
determining, at a first terminal device, whether a first sidelink between the first terminal device and a second terminal device has been established;
in response to the determination that the first sidelink has not been established,
transmitting, to a third terminal device, an indication that a link identification field is not to be included in sidelink control information,
receiving, from the third terminal device, first sidelink control information via a second sidelink between the first terminal device and the third terminal device, the first sidelink control information including a first device identification of the first terminal device, and
transmitting, to the third terminal device, a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, feedback for the first sidelink control information, the first HARQ feedback including the first device identification.