Aspect 3: The method of any of Aspects 1-2, wherein the one or more channel sensing modes include at least one of: a first channel sensing mode associated with a channel sensing window that occurs before a resource selection trigger in a time domain, a second channel sensing mode associated with a channel sensing window that occurs after a resource selection trigger in the time domain, a third channel sensing mode associated with initiating sensing after a resource selection trigger, or a fourth channel sensing mode that is associated with no channel sensing window.
Aspect 4: The method of any of Aspects 1-3, wherein identifying the channel sensing mode, from the one or more channel sensing modes for sensing channel availability of the sidelink channel, for the communication on the sidelink channel comprises: determining a value of one or more parameters related to a quality of service (QoS) associated with the communication; and identifying the channel sensing mode, from the one or more channel sensing modes, based at least in part on the value of the one or more parameters.
Aspect 5: The method of Aspect 4, wherein identifying the channel sensing mode based at least in part on the value of the one or more parameters comprises determining at least one of: whether a transmission priority level, associated with the communication, satisfies a first threshold, whether a packet delay budget value, associated with the communication, satisfies a second threshold, or whether a remaining packet delay budget value, associated with the communication, satisfies a third threshold.