US 2026/0095900 A1 · COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS

Abstract

This disclosure provides a communication method and apparatus, and belongs to the field of communication technologies, to implement integrated sensing and communication based on a new sidelink (SL) slot structure. In the method, a terminal apparatus may perform sensing by reusing a sidelink time domain resource. To be specific, the terminal apparatus may perform sensing by sending a sensing sequence and/or receiving a sensing echo on a first time domain resource and/or a second time domain resource of an SL slot. In other words, the terminal apparatus may perform sensing while communicating with another terminal apparatus. In this way, integrated sensing and communication can be implemented based on the foregoing SL slot structure.

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Dependent claims

A communication method, comprising:

determining a sidelink (SL) slot, wherein the SL slot comprises at least one first symbol, the first symbol comprises at least one time domain resource of a first time domain resource and a second time domain resource, the first time domain resource is for sending a sensing sequence, and the second time domain resource is for receiving a sensing echo;
and
sending the sensing sequence on the first time domain resource, or receiving the sensing echo on the second time domain resource.

A communication apparatus, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
at least one memory, wherein the at least one memory stores instructions, and when executing the instructions stored in the memory, the one or more processors executes operations comprising:
determining a sidelink (SL) slot, wherein the SL slot comprises at least one first symbol, the first symbol comprises at least one time domain resource of a first time domain resource and a second time domain resource, the first time domain resource is for sending a sensing sequence, and the second time domain resource is for receiving a sensing echo;
and
sending the sensing sequence on the first time domain resource, or receiving the sensing echo on the second time domain resource.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

19/411,566Filed 8 Dec 2025

Priority

CN 202310688331.89 Jun 2023

Published

2 Apr 2026

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

G01S 7/006
Transmission of data between radar, sonar or lidar systems and remote stations: using shared front-end circuitry, e.g. antennas
H04W 72/0446
Based on the type of the allocated resource: resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
G01S 13/003
Systems using the reflection or reradiation of radio waves, e.g. radar systems; Analogous systems using reflection or reradiation of waves whose…:…
H04W 72/25
Control channels or signalling for resource management: between terminals via a wireless link, e.g. sidelink

Communication method and apparatus

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