Abstract: Base stations of neighbor cells can coordinate with each other in allocating grant-free uplink (GUL) resources for a device-to-device (D2D) connection or channel between user equipments (UEs) across the neighbor cells. The base stations coordinate to determine a condition conducive to D2D communication between the UEs. If the condition exists, the base stations coordinate to allocate network resources for D2D communication between the UEs, and establish a D2D connection between the UEs using the allocated network resources for D2D communication.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used in a base station and/or user equipment (UE) to support or otherwise provide device-to-device (D2D) communication in a shared radio frequency spectrum between candidate UEs. For example, a base station may determine that a first UE and a second UE are candidates for D2D communication, and provide and indicate that a Grant-free Uplink (GUL) resource allocation for D2D communication between the first and second UEs. The base station may further monitor the D2D communication.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used in a base station and/or user equipment (UE) to help determine whether device-to-device (D2D) communications in a shared radio frequency spectrum may be employed between UEs. For example, a base station may send a request to a UE indicating that the UE monitor a wireless signal transmission from another UE, and subsequently receive a report based on a resulting D2D channel measurement. The base station may determine whether the monitoring UE and the monitored UE are D2D communication candidates based, at least in part on the received report.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In an FDD system, a UE may identify an indicator associated with ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) while communicating in a sidelink channel. The UE may also identify dedicated uplink resources in the sidelink channel, and reserve the dedicated uplink resources. The dedicated uplink resources may be reserved for an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) feedback or for a scheduling request (SR). URLLC data may be communicated, and the reserved uplink resources may be utilized to transmit an ACK/NACK feedback or a SR. In a TDD system, a base station may transmit information identifying dedicated resources for URLLC data. In some cases, a base station may transmit an indicator channel, which a sidelink UE may monitor to determine the presence of URLLC data, and respond accordingly.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein to provide priority traffic grant-less access to pre-defined communication resources that are semi-persistently scheduled. A set of semi-persistent communication resources may be reserved for use by priority traffic. If not used for priority traffic, the semi-persistent resources may be scheduled for use by other types of traffic. As priority traffic is identified, the priority traffic may be transmitted using the semi-persistent resource without having those communication resources granted by a scheduling entity. Such grant-less access to the semi-persistent resources may result in interference between the scheduled traffic and the priority traffic communicated without first scheduling the specific communication resources. To mitigate interference between different traffic types, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a device-to-device silencing message to other UEs.

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses are described for a listen-before-talk (LBT) mechanism. A wireless node, e.g., a base station, may determine that a channel is available based on completing a clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure. The wireless node may be associated with a first operator. The wireless node may transmit a first message on the channel in a subframe based on the CCA procedure. The first message may include a header portion that precedes a data portion. The first message may be time aligned with a second message transmitted from a second wireless node that is associated with the first operator.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe a fallback silencing mechanism for wireless communications. A wireless device that operates primarily on unlicensed frequency bands, such as a factory automation device, may occasionally have a need to make Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) transmissions. If the unlicensed band becomes unsuitable for URLLC transmissions, the wireless device may fallback to licensed band transmissions. A silencing signal may be sent on downlink resources to silence uplink Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) transmissions for one or more mini-slots. The wireless device may then send a URLLC transmission on the one or more min-slots.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a configuration for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmissions for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein the configuration, which is specific to the UE, identifies allocated resources of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for the HARQ retransmissions; and use the allocated resources identified in the configuration for the HARQ retransmissions. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium at a transmitting user equipment (UE) in a distributed cellular vehicle-to-everything environment are disclosed to achieve communications between the distributed UEs with high reliability and low latency. A transmitting UE can configure an ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) transmission unit by configuring a URLLC channel indicator, a URLLC transmission indicator, a URLLC control channel, and URLLC data portion. The UE can transmit the configured URLLC transmission unit in punctured OFDM symbols within a regular subframe to a receiving UE in the distributed C-V2X environment.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station and a user equipment (UE) may communicate in a high reliability and low latency communications system (e.g., ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC)). The base station may signal a UE-specific scheduling request (SR) repetition configuration that the UE may utilize to transmit an instantaneous SR when a buffer status report (BSR) is triggered by a new data packet. The UE may repeatedly transmit the SR until a number of repetitions or a time period of repetitions is met or an uplink grant is received from the base station. The SR repetition configuration may include a number of parameters including a repetition setting, power settings, a resource allocation, and an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) procedure.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In an FDD system, a UE may identify an indicator associated with ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) while communicating in a sidelink channel. The UE may also identify dedicated uplink resources in the sidelink channel, and reserve the dedicated uplink resources. The dedicated uplink resources may be reserved for an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) feedback or for a scheduling request (SR). URLLC data may be communicated, and the reserved uplink resources may be utilized to transmit an ACK/NACK feedback or a SR. In a TDD system, a base station may transmit information identifying dedicated resources for URLLC data. In some cases, a base station may transmit an indicator channel, which a sidelink UE may monitor to determine the presence of URLLC data, and respond accordingly.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may identify a first grant repetition configuration of a plurality of grant repetition configurations for a user equipment (UE). The base station may generate a grant repetition parameter corresponding to the first grant repetition configuration. The base station may transmit the grant repetition parameter to the UE to indicate the first grant repetition configuration. The base station may transmit a repetition of grants in accordance with the first grant repetition configuration. The UE may receive the grant repetition parameter from the base station and determine a grant repetition configuration corresponding to the grant repetition parameter. The UE may monitor for a repetition of grants corresponding to the determined grant repetition configuration.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may determine that a synchronous transmission by the UE includes traffic having a priority higher than a priority of nominal traffic. In response to the determination, the UE may, alter a use of at least some of an initial portion of a discovery frame from energy detection to signal transmission. The signal transmission may be a pilot signal transmission or a non-information-carrying signal transmission. The traffic having the priority higher than the nominal traffic may include mission-critical traffic. A reliability requirement of mission-critical traffic may be higher than a reliability requirement of nominal traffic. A latency requirement of mission-critical traffic may be lower than a latency requirement of nominal traffic. The signal transmission may be at a power level that is sufficient to result in energy detection at another UE. Various additional and alternative aspects are described herein.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for providing acknowledgements of grant-free uplink transmissions, which may in some cases be used for low latency communications. Approaches described herein include the use of per-user equipment (UE) acknowledgement resources assigned to UEs configured for grant-free uplink transmissions as well as the use of per-group acknowledgement resources assigned to groups of UEs configured for grant-free uplink transmissions. Dynamic puncturing of data in a shared downlink data channel may be used in the context of per-UE acknowledgement resource assignment. Corresponding grants of uplink transmission resources may be used in the context of per-group acknowledgement resources assignments.

Abstract: An organic compound has a structure represented by formula (1): and Ar1 represents phenyl, naphthyl, biphenyl, terphenyl, anthryl, dibenzofuranyl, dibenzothiophenyl, 9,9-dimethylfluorenyl or 9-phenylcarbazolyl, substituted or unsubstituted by halogen atoms, protium atoms, deuterium atoms, tritium atoms, and linear or branched alkyl with 1 to 10 carbons; Ar2 and Ar3 each independently represents a single bond or one selected from the group consisting of phenyl, naphthyl, biphenyl, terphenyl, anthryl or pyridyl, substituted or unsubstituted by halogen atoms, protium atoms, deuterium atoms, tritium atoms, and linear or branched alkyl with 1 to 10 carbons; R1, R2 each independently represents a structure represented by the following formulas: and Ar4, Ar5, Ar6, Ar7 each independently represents one selected from the group consisting of phenyl, naphthyl, biphenyl, terphenyl or pyridyl, substituted or unsubstituted by halogen atoms, linear or branched alkyl with 1 to 10 carbons.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for grant-free uplink communication are disclosed in which selection of a grant-free transmission format for data channel transmission may be based on link conditions. In some aspects, a user equipment identifies data for the grant-free uplink transmission, selects a grant-free transmission format from among a plurality of preconfigured grant-free transmission formats, and sends the data to a base station on the data channel using the selected grant-free transmission format. In some aspects the base station may receive channel state information from the UE and may assign a grant-free transmission format to the UE based at least in part on the channel state information. In some aspects, the base station may detect a grant-free uplink transmission on an uplink data channel, identify the UE based on a demodulation reference signal, and identify the format based on a grant-free format indicator.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communication systems, and more particularly, to link-dependent scheduling request (SR) formats for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) in communication systems operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. A method is provided, that may be performed by a base station (BS) for wireless communications. The method includes determining one or more channel conditions for a link between the BS and a user equipment (UE). The BS assigns a SR format to the UE based on the one or more channel conditions. The UE receives the SR format assignment and transmits one or more SR transmissions to the BS according to the assigned SR format.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus, which is associated with a first cell, may receive communication information of a second cell, wherein the communication information is associated with a transmission, of a base station associated with the second cell, to an ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) user equipment (UE) located in the second cell; and/or reduce transmission power of the apparatus associated with the first cell, in at least one resource, to reduce interference with the transmission by the base station to the URLLC UE.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a mechanism for utilizing uplink hopping patterns for HARQ transmissions. Each hopping pattern may include a sequence of different frequency resources or a sequence of different scrambling sequences for a user equipment (UE) to utilize over time for HARQ transmissions. Each of the hopping patterns may further be associated with a time index mode in which the hopping pattern is applied to time resources such that each time resource within a consecutive sequence of time resources is mapped to a different frequency resource or scrambling sequence. The base station may select a hopping pattern for a particular UE and transmit an indication of the selected hopping pattern to the UE.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum alloy hub surface treatment process. The specific process flow comprises: providing an aluminum alloy hub blank, sanding, polishing, pre-treating, spraying electroplating silver paint, flash-drying, spraying celluloid paint, curing and discharging. The process not only has the mirror effect of electroplated products, but also has many advantages of simplicity, low cost, no heavy metal pollution and the like.