Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a vulnerable road user (VRU) user equipment (UE) indicates to a user whether a current position accuracy is sufficient or insufficient for approaching vehicles to determine if they present a hazard to the VRU. The position accuracy may be based on an accuracy threshold that is configured at the UE, such as by a serving base station or a road side unit (RSU). The accuracy threshold may be configured via common or dedicated signaling, through application-layer signaling, or may be pre-configured in the UE. When the VRU UE position accuracy exceeds the specified threshold for a particular interval of time, the UE may inform the user that approaching vehicles will be unable to determine their location with enough accuracy to take evasive maneuvers.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node and using a first access link, a first indication of an access link wake-up signal associated with a second access link between a second UE and the network node. The first UE may transmit, based at least in part on using a sidelink between the first UE and the second UE, a second indication of the access link wake-up signal to the second UE. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method includes identifying a feedback channel configuration that maps a set of multiple subchannels of a sidelink channel to a set of multiple feedback resources of a feedback channel of the sidelink channel, receiving control signaling scheduling the full duplex UE to transmit or receive a first sidelink message in a first subchannel of the set of multiple subchannels, assigning a first feedback resource of the set of multiple feedback resources for transmission or reception of feedback for the first sidelink message that differs from a default resource identified by the feedback channel configuration, and communicating feedback data for the first sidelink message in the first feedback resource of the feedback channel based on the assigning.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for warning pedestrians, for example, of potential collisions with vehicles. The techniques may be considered a hybrid approach to reaching a pedestrian, in that it may employ a combination of interfaces (e.g., the radio interface between the pedestrian UE and the radio access network as well as a sidelink interface between the pedestrian UE and vehicle UE).

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to select a synchronization signal from multiple synchronization signals received at transceiver nodes of the UE based on configured selection rules. The UE may receive control signaling from another UE, a base station, or some other device indicating a rule for selecting between multiple synchronization signals received across transceiver nodes of the UE. The selection rule may indicate signal quality comparison metrics for selecting the synchronization signal, such as reference signal received power (RSRP) metrics, timing metrics, priority metrics, or a combination thereof. The UE may select a synchronization signal for deriving a timing at the UE based on the selection rule. The UE may forward the selected synchronization signal to one or more other UEs by transmitting the selected synchronization signal via each transceiver node at the UE.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may be associated with a reconfigurable surface for reflecting transmissions between second and third UEs (e.g., over sidelink resources). In one example, the first UE may transmit signaling indicating that retransmissions of a first message transmitted between a second and third UE and detected by the first UE may be reflected by the reconfigurable surface associated with the first UE. In another example, the first UE may receive a request from a second UE for signal enhancement using a reconfigurable surface, the request associated with a future transmission by the second UE to a third UE. In either case, the UE may determine to perform signal enhancement using a reconfigurable surface and may then reconfigure the reconfigurable surface for reflecting transmissions or retransmissions from the second UE to the third UE.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station or a roadside unit (RSU), information associated with one or more security keys for sidelink communications, wherein the information includes at least one of a base key, the one or more security keys, or one or more parameters for deriving the one or more security keys. The UE may transmit, to a second UE, a sidelink communication that is scrambled using a security key of the one or more security keys. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a central network node, configuration information for reporting UE positioning information or distributed network node positioning information. The UE may identify one or more distributed network nodes based at least in part on respective connections between the one or more distributed network nodes and the UE or based at least in part on measurement information. The UE may obtain one or more encrypted identifiers respectively associated with the one or more distributed network nodes. The UE may transmit, to the central network node, the one or more encrypted identifiers in accordance with the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Aspects relate to mechanisms for a wireless communication device to generate a superposition transmission of a sidelink signal to be transmitted to at least one receiving wireless communication device and an uplink signal to be transmitted to a base station. The wireless communication device may transmit the superposition transmission on resources allocated by the base station on a common carrier utilized for both sidelink and uplink transmissions. The superposition transmission includes a base layer corresponding to the uplink signal and an enhanced layer corresponding to the sidelink signal. The wireless communication device may further generate and transmit interference assistance information to the receiving wireless communication device for use by the receiving wireless communication device in canceling the base layer from the superposition transmission.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which multiuser superposition transmission (MUST) is used to provide multiple concurrent sidelink transmissions using a same set of time and frequency resources. A transmitting user equipment (UE) may provide an indication of concurrent MUST transmissions in sidelink control information (SCI), and a receiving UE may decode one or both of a MUST base layer communication and a MUST enhancement layer communication. The base layer communication may include broadcast or groupcast transmissions to multiple UEs, and the enhancement layer communication may include a unicast transmission between the transmitting UE and a single receiving UE. The indication of concurrent transmissions may be provided in a first stage SCI, and parameters for decoding the base layer and enhancement layer transmissions may be provided in one or multiple second stage SCI transmissions.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, information related to a concurrent reception capability using different receive beams. The UE may receive, from the base station, information indicating one or more slots in which concurrent sidelink and downlink reception is enabled based at least in part on the information related to the concurrent reception capability. The UE may receive, in the one or more slots in which concurrent sidelink and downlink reception is enabled, a downlink transmission from the base station using a first receive beam and a sidelink transmission from a peer UE using a second receive beam. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device supports sidelink communications, including device-to-device (D2D) communications and vehicle-based communications. The communication device receives, from another device, a discontinuous transmission (DTX) configuration for a sidelink connection between the communications device and the other device. Based on the received DTX configuration, the communications device determines a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration and transmit, to the other device, the determined DRX configuration. The devices experience power savings, among other results according to the DTX configuration or the DRX configuration.

Abstract: An unmanned aerial system (UAS) may execute a mission planned by a UAS traffic management (UTM) system. The UAS may receive a mission planning response message from the UTM that includes a mission route for the UAS to navigate and a configuration of one or more trigger events. The mission route may be made up of a sequence of waypoints in an airspace. Each of the waypoints may be configured with a dynamic path conforming profile (PCP) a dynamic required navigation performance (RNP) value. The UAS may monitor at least the RNP value in one or more time intervals to determine if a trigger event occurs. The UAS may transmit a path conformance status report to the UTM upon determining that a trigger event of the one or more trigger events occurred. The path conformance status report may indicate conformance to one or more parameters specified in the PCP.

Abstract: Method, apparatus and systems are disclosed. In one representative embodiment, a method may be implemented by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for communication via a network access point (NAP). The method may include the WTRU receiving from the NAP a set of preambles and corresponding propagation delay related thresholds and determining propagation delay related information associated with a distance between the WTRU and the NAP or a location in a coverage of the NAP. The method may further include selecting a subset of preambles from the set of preambles based on the determined propagation delay related information, randomly selecting a preamble from the selected subset of preambles, and sending the randomly selected preamble to the NAP.

Abstract: Techniques for sidelink (SL) and uplink (UL) full duplex communication with multiple transmission and reception points (multi-TRP) may be performed. In an example, a user equipment (UE) may determine full duplex communication, including simultaneous reception of a SL communication from an SL UE via a first TRP of the UE and transmission of a UL transmission to a base station via a second TRP of the UE, is available. The UE may enable the full duplex communication. The UE may receive, from the SL UE, the SL communication via the first TRP. The UE may transmit, to the base station while simultaneously receiving the SL communication, the UL transmission via the second TRP.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A server may request sensed location information from a first device to verify location information reported by the first device or one or more additional devices. For example, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a message requesting sensed location information for verification of the location information associated with and reported by the first UE. Based on a sensing procedure performed by the first UE, the first UE may transmit a report indicating the sensed location information and a sensing time. In another example, a first device may receive a message requesting sensed location information for verification of the location information associated with and reported by one or more additional devices. Based on a sensing procedure performed by the first UE, the first UE may transmit a report indicating the sensed location information and the sensing time.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for assisted mmW sidelink beam discovery in non-standalone mode. A UE may transmit, to an AN, a request to access one or more ADs. The request may be based on an absence of at least one BPL that has a threshold QoS for a DRB with a second UE. The UE may receive, from the AN based on the transmitted request, an authorization to access the one or more ADs, and exchange, via an SRB, beam training information with the second UE based on the authorization to access the one or more ADs for performing a beam training procedure via the one or more ADs.

Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include one or more antennas and a first transceiver operatively coupled to the antennas. The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be configured to receive a first signal from a network using zero energy from the WTRU. The one or more antennas and the first transceiver may be further configured to extract energy from the first signal. The first transceiver may be further configured to examine a separation between energy threshold events to decode an energy signature of the first signal. The first transceiver may be further configured to activate a second transceiver operatively coupled to the one or more antennas if the decoded energy signature matches a stored energy signature, wherein the second transceiver is powered by the WTRU. The one or more antennas and the second transceiver may be configured to receive a second signal from the network.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE via reflection by one or more passive devices, a first reference signal (RS) that is based at least in part on a shared first key that corresponds to a configuration of the one or more passive devices. The first UE may receive, from the second UE via reflection, a second RS that is based at least in part on the first key. The first UE may generate a second key based at least in part on a measurement of the second RS. The first UE may transmit a positioning reference signal that is based at least in part on the second key and that is associated with a measurement of a range between the first UE and the second UE. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, sidelink control information for performing full-duplex communications with the second UE. The sidelink control information may include an indication of resources reserved by the second UE, an indication of one or more transmit beam directions associated with the resources reserved by the second UE, or both. The first UE may receive, via the resources reserved by the second UE, a first message using a first receive beam based on the sidelink control information. The first UE may transmit, via the resources reserved by the second UE, a second message using a first transmit beam of the first UE, a direction of the first transmit beam being different from a direction of the first receive beam.