Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for generating an adversarially resistant model. In one embodiment, a novel architecture is presented that enables the identification of an image that has been adversarially attacked. The system and method used in the identification introduce the use of a denoising module used to reconstruct the original image from the modified image received. Then, further to the reconstruction, an adversarially trained model is used to make a prediction using at least a determination of a loss that may exist between the original image and the denoised image.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving sidelink control information (SCI) on a first interlace of a first set of interlaces on a carrier, wherein the SCI may schedule a second set of interlaces on the carrier for transmitting data; and receiving, based on the SCI, the data on the second set of interlaces, wherein each interlace of the first set of interlaces and the second set of interlaces may include evenly-spaced resource blocks (RBs) in frequency domain.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and apparatus for fallback operation for a semi static HARQ-ACK codebook determination. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus including a receiver that receives at least one downlink (DL) transmission within a DL association set. The apparatus also includes a processor that determines whether to use a fallback hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission and a transmitter that transmits a first HARQ-ACK codebook on a first resource for the DL association set in response to the fallback HARQ-ACK transmission being used or a second HARQ-ACK codebook on a second resource for the DL association set in response to the fallback HARQ-ACK transmission being used.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for sharing channel occupancy time for sidelink transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a first user equipment (UE) for wireless communication may include: determining an energy detection threshold for performing a Type-1 channel access procedure; performing the Type-1 channel access procedure based on the energy detection threshold; initiating a channel occupancy time (COT) in response to the Type-1 channel access procedure being successful; and transmitting an indicator for indicating the energy detection threshold within the COT.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink transmissions. One apparatus includes a processor that generates a preamble sequence for an uplink transmission. The preamble sequence of the apparatus includes indication information. The apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits the preamble sequence. The transmitter transmits uplink information based on the indication information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for beam failure detection and recovery in sidelink. An exemplary method includes: obtaining configuration information for a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure on sidelink, wherein the configuration information indicates a periodic window; performing a reception of at least one transmission of a beam failure detection reference signal (BFD-RS) on the sidelink within the periodic window according to the configuration information. Embodiments of the present application can efficiently reduce delay as well as signalling overhead for BFR in sidelink.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for sidelink burst transmission. The method includes: performing a channel access procedure for initiating a channel occupancy for sidelink transmission; transmitting sidelink control information (SCI) to another apparatus within the channel occupancy; wherein the SCI includes an indicator indicating a remaining duration of the channel occupancy; and transmitting sidelink data associated with the SCI to the another apparatus without exceeding the remaining duration of the channel occupancy.

Abstract: The subject application is related to a method and apparatus for Device-to-Device communication. A method for Device-to-Device communication includes transmitting a signal toward a group of user equipments (UEs); detecting a HARQ feedback signal accumulated by signal (s) from one or more UEs within the group of UEs; and transmitting a signal toward the group of UEs, wherein the UE and the group of UEs are configured to perform groupcast transmission.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for collision avoidance. One apparatus includes a processor that detects energy in a detection slot within a first time period over a first frequency resource of a transmission resource unit (“TRU”). The TRU includes the first time period, a second time period contiguous in time with the first time period, a second frequency resource, and a third frequency resource contiguous in frequency with the second frequency resource. The energy is below a predetermined threshold. The apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits a time-contiguous signal after the detection slot until an end of the first time period over the first frequency resource. The transmitter transmits data within the second time period over the third frequency resource. The transmitter transmits a scheduling assignment (“SA”) within the second time period over the second frequency resource. The SA includes information related to the data.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for sidelink transmissions on an unlicensed spectrum. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: determining a set of candidate starting positions for sidelink transmission; and performing a first channel access procedure for a first candidate starting position of the set of candidate starting positions in a first slot.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving handover requests with network information. One method (1000) includes transmitting (1002) a handover request to a target device. The handover request includes: first information indicating that a source communication network corresponding to a source device is unable to support a predetermined quality of service; and second information corresponding to capacity of the source communication network. The method (1000) includes receiving (1004) a response to the handover request.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for a sidelink resource re-evaluation procedure under 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 5G new radio (NR). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes: receiving resource indication information, wherein the resource indication information indicates one or more sidelink resources; determining a resource re-evaluation window in time domain; performing, during the resource re-evaluation window, a re-evaluation procedure for the one or more sidelink resources; and in response to a sidelink resource within the one or more sidelink resources being available, transmitting a sidelink transmission on the sidelink resource.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for detecting a sidelink transmission burst over an unlicensed spectrum. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication includes: generating a sequence; and transmitting the sequence at a beginning of a sidelink burst on a carrier, starting from a first candidate position of a set of candidate positions in a first slot, wherein the sequence spans a predetermined number of consecutive symbols in time domain and the sidelink burst is contiguously transmitted in time domain without any gap.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for transmitting a control message are disclosed. A method comprising: transmitting a control message including an indicator for indicating at least one of termination of a control channel monitoring, termination of a data transmission and a feedback corresponding to the data transmission, wherein the indicator is determined based on at least one of a system bandwidth, a maximum bandwidth of the data transmission and a bit length of the indicator.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for determining a resource availability. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining a resource availability, which includes: selecting a plurality of resources from a resource selection window; determining a sensing window based on the plurality of resources selected; and determining availability of the plurality of resources based on sensing result in the sensing window.

Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for extracting categorizable information from an image using a graph that models data within the image. Upon receiving an image, a data extraction system identifies characters in the image. The data extraction system then generates bounding boxes that enclose adjacent characters that are related to each other in the image. The data extraction system also creates connections between the bounding boxes based on locations of the bounding boxes. A graph is generated based on the bounding boxes and the connections such that the graph can accurately represent the data in the image. The graph is provided to a graph neural network that is configured to analyze the graph and produce an output. The data extraction system may categorize the data in the image based on the output.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for communication configuration selection. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives configuration information for multiple communication configurations. The configuration information corresponds to services having different performance requirements, and the performance requirements include latency, reliability, peak data rate, efficiency overhead, control overhead, system capacity, or some combination thereof. The apparatus also includes a processor that selects a communication configuration of the multiple communication configurations. The apparatus communicates using the selected communication configuration.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for user identification using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and data analytics. In one embodiment, a verification system and method is introduced that can provide user authentication using parallel modeling for face identification. The verification system used includes a face identification module for use in the identification and verification using parallel processing of a received image with a claimed identity. The parallel processing includes an ensemble of machine learning models processed in parallel for optimal performance.

Abstract: A system can comprise a processor that can facilitate performance of operations, comprising accessing a document comprising a plurality of text bounding boxes, wherein each respective text bounding box of the plurality of text bounding boxes comprises respective text, for each respective text bounding box, determining respective text bounding box coordinates and respective text bounding box input embeddings, based on the respective text bounding box coordinates, determining respective text bounding box positional encodings for each respective text bounding box, based on a transformer-based deep learning model applied to the respective text bounding box input embeddings, respective text bounding box coordinates, respective text bounding box positional encodings, and bias information representative of a modification to an attention weight of the transformer-based deep learning model, determining respective output embeddings for each respective text bounding box, and based on the respective output embeddings, ge

Abstract: A system can merge text bounding boxes such as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) bounding boxes. A document can comprise a plurality of the text bounding boxes. Distance thresholds between text bounding boxes can be utilized for comparison against a distance threshold. Distance thresholds can vary depending on context information associated with the document. In response to a determination that text bounding boxes satisfy the distance threshold, the text bounding boxes can be assigned to a bounding box group.