Patent ID: 11877314
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A base station, comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor in communication with the memory and configured to cause the base station to:
allocate a resource pool of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and sub-frames for sidelink transmissions;
decode, from a user equipment (UE), an uplink control message that indicates that the UE requests a sidelink transmission of a prioritized message in a transmission period;
select, for the sidelink transmission of the prioritized message, one or more PRBs of the resource pool and one or more sub-frames of the resource pool; and
encode, for transmission to the UE and to at least one other target UE in a cell area, a downlink control message that indicates selected PRBs, selected sub-frames, and a mute operation for the transmission period indicating that the at least one other target UE is to mute sidelink transmissions in the selected PRBs in the selected sub-frames to enable the sidelink transmission of the prioritized message.