Patent ID: 11870594
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a first user equipment, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
determining that first sidelink control information is successfully decoded, wherein the first sidelink control information is received from a second user equipment at a first defined resource of a sidelink control channel, wherein based on a group hybrid automatic repeat request feedback procedure and based on the first sidelink control information being successfully decoded, a successful acknowledgement is not transmitted;
determining that second sidelink control information is not successfully decoded, wherein the second sidelink control information is received from the second user equipment at a second defined resource of a sidelink shared channel; and
based on the group hybrid automatic repeat request feedback procedure and the second sidelink control information not being successfully decoded,
sending negative acknowledgement data on an indicated feedback channel;
preparing receipt of respective retransmissions from respective user equipment of a group of user equipment at a channel estimator; and
receiving respective retransmissions of the second sidelink control information via the sidelink shared channel from the respective user equipment of the group of user equipment in response to the negative acknowledgement data.