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

Claim 19:
20. A first user equipment (UE), comprising:
a memory;
at least one transceiver; and
at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the at least one transceiver, the at least one processor configured to:
determine 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
perform 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 any UE in the group of UEs operates as an initiator UE upon successful transmission of a respective PRS from the initiator UE when no channel occupancy time (COT) for the sidelink position estimation procedure is active, or
wherein each PRS transmission occasion of the sidelink PRS pattern includes one or more orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, or
wherein only the first PRS is transmitted by the first UE on the first PRS transmission occasion, or
wherein the first PRS and one or more other signals are transmitted by the first UE on the first PRS transmission occasion, or
wherein the one or more other signals comprise a control signal associated with the first PRS, or
any combination thereof.