US Patent 11044129 Hierarchical communication for device-to-device communications

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for hierarchical communication for device-to-device (D2D) communications. In certain aspects, a method generally includes determining user equipment (UE) data comprising at least one of one or more parameters about the UE, one or more parameters about objects near the UE, or raw sensor data. The method further includes determining a first level for transmitting a first portion of the UE data based on content of the first portion of the UE data. The method further includes determining a first modulation coding scheme associated with the first level based on a mapping of a plurality of levels to a plurality of modulation coding schemes. The method further includes encoding the first portion of the UE data using the first modulation coding scheme and transmitting the first portion of the UE data from the UE to at least one second UE directly.