Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, a first request message indicating a request to transmit a first sidelink message in a first slot of a sidelink network, and may transmit the first sidelink message in a first data section of the first slot based on transmitting the first request message. The first UE may monitor a first portion of a control section of a second slot of the sidelink network for request messages or response messages. The first UE may transmit a second request message in a portion of the second control section of the second slot designated for scheduling ongoing transmissions, and may transmit a second sidelink message in at least one portion of the second slot based on transmitting the second request message.