Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described, in which a user equipment (UE) may communicate with one or more other UEs using sidelink communications. Multiple UEs may form a sidelink communications group and provide for sidelink groupcast communications in which an identification of a UE is determined based at least in part on a member identification of the UE within the group. Each UE in the group may determine feedback resources for acknowledgment feedback within the group based on a UE identification and a size of the group.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting a packet on a first resource, determining one or more repetition resources on which to send one or more redundancy versions of the packet, wherein the one or more repetition resources are at a time subsequent to the first resource, transmitting repetition resource information identifying the one or more repetition resources to one or more neighboring UEs, and transmitting the one or more redundancy versions of the packet on respective ones of the one or more repetition resources.

Abstract: A first user equipment (UE) can determine a slot, from a resource pool including a plurality of slots allocated for sidelink communications, for providing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback to a second UE via a sidelink channel. The determination may be based on a physical slot index or a logical slot index. The first UE may send the HARQ feedback on the sidelink channel in the slot, or refrain from sending the HARQ feedback, based on the determination. The first UE may determine the slot has a first slot index that is at least a preconfigured number of slots after a slot scheduled for sidelink data transmission having a second slot index.

Abstract: A method of wireless communication performed by a sensing user equipment (UE) includes identifying available resources during a sensing window. The method also includes receiving a request to share the available resources with a transmitter UE. The method further includes determining the sensing UE satisfies a sharing condition. The method still further includes sharing the available resources with the transmitter UE based on satisfying the sharing condition.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive one or more sidelink communications on a sidelink between the UE and another UE. The UE may transmit one or more hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback communications, associated with the one or more sidelink communications, on the sidelink and in a HARQ feedback resource included in a multi-slot feedback reporting period. The HARQ feedback resource may include a set of negative acknowledgement (NACK) resources or the set of NACK resources and a set of acknowledgement (ACK) resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques relating to wireless communications between vehicles. In certain aspects, a method performed by a first vehicle comprises receiving an indication from a second vehicle comprising surrounding information that is indicative of whether a first unknown vehicle is detected by the second vehicle, wherein the first vehicle and the second vehicle are able to communicate wirelessly, and wherein the first unknown vehicle is unable to communicate wirelessly with the first and the second vehicles. The method further comprises controlling movement of the first vehicle based on the indication.

Abstract: Aspects relate to managing a device-to-device communication link via radio resource control (RRC) layer signaling. In an example operation, a first wireless communication device establishes a unicast link with a second wireless communication device over a device-to-device communication interface and determines that the unicast link is to be reconfigured with at least one updated parameter. The first wireless communication device then sends a link reconfiguration request to the second wireless communication device via a first RRC message over the communication interface. The first RRC message includes the at least one updated parameter. The first wireless communication device receives a link reconfiguration response from the second wireless communication device via a second RRC message over the communication interface based on the link reconfiguration request and determines whether to reconfigure the unicast link using the at least one updated parameter based on the received link reconfiguration response.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe indicating per-packet quality of service (QoS) in communications by a wireless communications device. A packet from an application generated for a first radio access technology (RAT) can be obtained, where the packet includes a first QoS value associated with the first RAT, and/or the first QoS value can be mapped to a second QoS value associated with the second RAT. In another example, the QoS value can be indicated in the packet along with a reflective indicator indicating to use the QoS value in transmitting a response to the packet.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for coordinated power savings configurations for access link and sidelink(s). A wireless node may receive information from a user equipment (UE) over a sidelink. In some aspects, the wireless node forwards the information to a base station (BS) over an access link and receives, from the BS, a first power savings configuration for the access link and a second power savings configuration for the sidelink. In some aspects, the wireless node receives, from a BS, a first power savings configuration for an access link and determines a second power savings configuration for the sidelink based on the information and the first power savings configuration.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may establish a unicast connection over a sidelink communications with a second UE. To establish the unicast connection over the sidelink, the first UE may transmit a request message (e.g., a first message) to the second UE, and the second UE may transmit a response message (e.g., a second message) to the first UE accepting the request. The unicast connection over the sidelink may then be established between the first UE and the second UE, and user data may then be transmitted over the sidelink on the established unicast connection. Additionally, the first UE may transmit a connection complete message (e.g., a third message) to the second UE indicating that the unicast connection has been established. The request message, the response message, and the connection complete message may be radio resource control (RRC) messages.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a message indicating that a base station supports allocating resources for sidelink communications using a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT that is different from the first RAT. The UE may transmit a sidelink information message to the base station using the first RAT that indicates that sidelink communications are to be performed using either the second RAT or both the first RAT and the second RAT. The UE may receive a configuration message from the base station that comprises an identifier for the sidelink communications and an indication of available sidelink resources. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the configuration message, a request for resources within the available sidelink resources, the request indicating the identifier and a buffer status report (BSR).

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, for a device-to-device communication with another UE, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) configuration, of a set of MCS configurations, based at least in part on at least one of a transmission mode, a packet characteristic, a mobility state of the UE, a capability of the UE, a transmission mode of the device-to-device communication, a received indication from the other UE, or a combination thereof. The UE may transmit, to the other UE, data using an MCS selected based at least in part on the MCS configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A receiving device identifies a collision between first resources reserved by a first transmitting device and second resources reserved by a second transmitting device and transmits a collision indication to the first transmitting device or the second transmitting device based on the identified collision. A transmitting device that receives a collision indication from the receiving device backs off from transmitting during the resources received by the resource reservation in response to receiving the collision indication from the receiving device.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to sidelink communications in a TDD system are provided. A first user equipment (UE) may receive from a base station (BS), a time-division-duplexing (TDD) configuration. The first UE may select a first TDD configuration from a set of configured TDD configurations based on the TDD configuration. Additionally, the first UE may transmit to a second UE, an indication of the first TDD configuration. The first and the second UEs may communicate a sidelink communication based on the first TDD configuration. Other features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Aspects relate to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a sidelink wireless communication network. In some examples, a sidelink device generates a DMRS based on first and second identifiers of the sidelink device. In some examples, a sidelink device generates a DMRS based on an initialization parameter and/or at least one scaling parameter. In some examples, the initialization parameter may be based on a first identifier of a sidelink device. In some examples, the at least one scaling parameter may be based on a second identifier of a sidelink device. In some examples, a first sidelink device synchronizes with a second sidelink device based on broadcast channel information that is obtained by using DMRS information to decode a received broadcast signal. In some examples, the DMRS information may be based on first and second identifiers of the first sidelink device.

Abstract: Aspects are provided of dedicated paging schemes for vehicle UEs to communicate with pedestrian UEs in V2P communication and that also allows pedestrian UEs to power-efficiently monitor for such V2P communications. A vehicle UE provides an indication of a V2P communication to a pedestrian UE in a resource from a plurality of resources. The vehicle UE then transmits a message to the pedestrian UE based on the indication. The pedestrian UE monitors the plurality of resources for the indication of the V2P communication from the vehicle UE. The pedestrian UE receives the indication of the V2P communication. The pedestrian UE then receives the message from the vehicle UE based on the indication.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to support relayed sidelink communications. A first device and a base station may communicate via a communication link including a sidelink link between the first device and a second device and a relay link between the second device and the base station. The base station may determine restrictions for the communication link and transmit an indication of the restrictions over the relay link. The restrictions may differentiate data originating from the first device and the second device, restrict the first device to one or more resources, or associate logical channels at the first device with one or more transport block sizes and communication links. The second device may relay the indication of the restrictions to the first device. The first device, the second device, and the base station may communicate over the communication link according to the restrictions.

Abstract: Wireless communication devices are adapted to facilitate power conservation and sidelink communications. According to one example, a wireless communication device can transmit a reservation signal to reserve one or more sidelink resources for use by another device, and receive a sidelink transmission from the other device on at least a portion of the one or more reserved sidelink resources. According to another example, a wireless communication device can detect a reservation signal from another device, where the reservation signal is configured to reserve one or more sidelink resources, and transmit a sidelink transmission on at least a portion of the one or more of the sidelink resources reserved by the other device. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether a peer-to-peer (P2P) communication is to be relayed based at least in part on a location of the UE and a range requirement associated with the P2P communication; and transmit the P2P communication, wherein the P2P communication includes an indication of whether the P2P communication is to be relayed. In some aspects, a UE may receive the P2P communication; determine whether to relay the P2P communication based at least in part on the indication and at least one of: a location of the UE, or a UE identifier, included in the P2P communication, that identifies the UE and is associated with a request for the UE to relay the P2P communication; and selectively relay the P2P communication based at least in part on determining whether to relay the P2P communication.

Abstract: Aspects presented herein may enable a transmitting device to encode and transmit coordination information and data in separate transport blocks, such that the transmitting device may update the coordination information without altering the transport block carrying the data. In one aspect, an apparatus encodes coordination information for sidelink resources in a first transport block. The apparatus encodes data in a second transport block. The apparatus transmits a first transmission on a PSSCH, the first transmission including the first transport block comprising coordination information and the second transport block.