Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for sensing measurement and report for 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 5G new radio (NR) sidelink (SL). A method for wireless communications performed by user equipment (UE) includes: receiving sensing report configuration information, and the sensing report configuration information includes linkage information among a set of sidelink resources for the UE, a sensing result request resource, and a sensing result report resource; determining, based on the sensing report configuration information, whether to transmit a sensing result message; and in response to a determination of transmitting the sensing result message, transmitting the sensing result message.

Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for sidelink communication. One embodiment of the subject disclosure provides a method performed by a first User Equipment (UE), comprising: determining a first set of sidelink resources based on a communication status of the first UE or based on a sensing result of the first UE; and transmitting a signal indicating the first set of sidelink resources to a second UE.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for transmission resource selection. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes: selecting a transmission resource for a sidelink transmission; generating an indication signaling for indicating the sidelink transmission on the selected transmission resource; and transmitting the indication signaling on a detection resource, which is a time-frequency resource prior to the selected transmission resource. Embodiments of the present disclosure solve the technical problem concerning the transmission resource selection in a V2X system.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for contention window size adjustment. One apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits data on a carrier to a set of devices in a first transmission burst having a duration of at least one subframe. In some embodiments, the set of devices includes one or more devices. In various embodiments, the apparatus includes a receiver that receives feedback information from each device. In certain embodiments, the apparatus includes a processor that determines, based on the feedback information, whether interference above a predetermined level exists on the carrier during the first transmission burst at each device, adjusts a contention window size based on the determination of whether interference above the predetermined level exists on the carrier during the first transmission burst at each device, and determines a value N between a predetermined minimum contention window size and the adjusted contention window size.

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 carrier determination. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a first carrier of multiple carriers for a first device to transmit control information. The apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits, to the first device, a first physical control signal indicating the first carrier, wherein the first physical control signal further indicates an interlace index for transmitting control information. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives control information from the first device on the first carrier.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for sidelink resource re-evaluation of a user equipment (UE) supporting 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 5G new radio (NR). A method for sidelink communications performed by a UE includes: receiving configuration information for a partial sensing window; receiving configuration information for a resource re-evaluation sensing window; determining the resource re-evaluation sensing window based on the configuration information or the partial sensing window and the configuration information for the resource re-evaluation sensing window; and performing a resource re-evaluation procedure during the resource re-evaluation sensing window.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for burst-based sidelink transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for wireless communication includes: performing a first Type-1 channel access procedure for sidelink transmission on a carrier starting from a first candidate starting symbol within a first slot, wherein the first candidate starting symbol is in a set of candidate starting symbols for the sidelink transmission; determining a channel occupancy time (COT) in response to the first Type-1 channel access procedure being successful; and performing, within the COT, the sidelink transmission on the carrier from the first candidate starting symbol within the first slot, wherein the sidelink transmission is contiguous in time domain without any gap.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method performed by a first UE for wireless communication includes: receiving, from a second UE, sidelink control information (SCI) on a first interlace on a carrier, wherein the SCI schedules data transmission on the carrier, and the first interlace comprises evenly-spaced resource blocks (RBs) in frequency domain; and transmitting, from the first UE, corresponding to the data transmission, a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback on a first feedback resource based on the SCI.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for beam management on sidelink. A method for wireless communication performed by a first user equipment (UE) is disclosed, the method may include: transmitting, to a second UE, an index indicating channel state information (CSI) reporting configuration information including a CSI reporting configuration item, wherein a type of CSI reporting is set in the index; and transmitting information of candidate beams of the first UE when the type of CSI reporting is set as round-trip in the index.

Abstract: The present application is related to a method and apparatus for power saving for 3 GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 5G new radio (NR) sidelink (SL). A method for wireless communications performed by user equipment (UE) includes: determining whether a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) procedure is enabled; and in response to the SL DRX procedure being enabled, receiving SL DRX configuration information, wherein the SL DRX configuration information contains a priority of the SL DRX procedure.

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.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a beam for preamble transmission. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a beam from multiple beams for preamble transmission. In response to the multiple beams including one or more beams configured with a contention-free resource, the one or more beams configured with a contention-free resource have a higher priority than other beams of the multiple beams.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for beam-based transmission for sidelink. The method may include: detecting spatial information contained in first sensed scheduling information; selecting a resource and a direction of a beam for data transmission based on the detected spatial information; transmitting second scheduling information including the selected resource and spatial information of the beam for the data transmission, where the spatial information of the beam includes the direction of the beam for the data transmission; and transmitting the data transmission by using the selected resource and the direction of the beam.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for sidelink (SL) communication. One method of apparatus includes determining a first resources pool for SL communication which includes SL transmission resources and SL reception resources, and transmitting resources information to a relay UE. Wherein, the first resources pool is a SL subframes pool or a SL SPS configurations pool, and the resources information is the first resource pool or a resource pair selected by the apparatus for SL communications.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for resource reservation for 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) sidelink (SL). A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) according to an embodiment of the present application includes: transmitting a code block group (CBG)-based transmission on a SL, wherein the CBG-based transmission includes one or more CBGs; receiving hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) feedback corresponding to the one or more CBGs; and determining, based on contents of the HARQ-ACK feedback, whether there is resource(s) to be released during a CBG-based retransmission.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for code block group (CBG)-based transmission for 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) sidelink (SL). A method for wireless communication performed by a UE according to an embodiment of the present application includes: in response to a CBG-based transmission being enabled, transmitting a CBG-based transmission on a SL, wherein the CBG-based transmission includes one or more CBGs; receiving hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) feedback corresponding to the one or more CBGs; and in response to the HARQ-ACK feedback, transmitting an indicator on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource to request a resource for a CBG-based retransmission.

Abstract: Systems and/or techniques for facilitating image forgery detection via pixel-metadata consistency analysis are provided. In various embodiments, a system can receive an electronic image from a client device. In various cases, the system can obtain a pixel vector and/or an image metadata vector that correspond to the electronic image. In various aspects, the system can determine whether the electronic image is authentic or forged, based on analyzing the pixel vector and the image metadata vector via at least one machine learning model.