Abstract: A high power density battery pack for a solar-electric vehicle includes a frame with compartments for battery modules arranged therein. The modules are in thermal communication with a unitary cooling plate disposed underneath. The modules include an array of secondary cells arranged in bottom and top carriers. The bottoms of the cells are in thermal communication with a heat spreader. The cells are oriented with their electrodes in a common plane and electrically isolated by the top carrier. One or more potting materials fills the interstitial spaces between the cells. The cells are connected in parallel and series by interconnects. A module monitoring system tracks the voltage and temperature of the modules. Modules are connected in series by intra-row and inter-row interconnects. A battery management system provides a solar charging mode for both stationary and in-motion vehicle operation, and a low-power quiescent mode when the vehicle is powered down.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for user equipment behavior with respect to hybrid automatic repeat request retransmission in new radio sidelink co-existence scenarios with another technology are provided. For example, a method can include enabling, for a receiving user equipment, hybrid automatic repeat request negative acknowledgement only feedback. The method can also include first determining whether to condition negative feedback on at least one first condition, or second determining whether negative feedback is conditioned on at least one second condition. The method can further include third determining whether to retransmit a message according to hybrid automatic repeat request according to results of the first determining or the second determining. The method can additionally include communicating with the receiving user equipment based on a result of the third determining.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for efficient signaling of sidelink radio resources. A first terminal device selects a subset of radio resources from a set of candidate radio resources. The first terminal device determines a set of resource indices for the subset of radio resources based at least partly on a pre-defined enumeration order of the set of candidate radio resources in time and frequency. The first terminal device determines a first resource indication value indicating at least the set of resource indices. The first terminal device transmits the first resource indication value to one or more second terminal devices.

Abstract: A biostimulator and a biostimulator system for septal pacing, is described. The biostimulator includes a joint to allow an electrode to pivot relative to a housing. The housing contains electrical circuitry that is electrically connected to the pacing electrode. The joint allows the pacing electrode to affix to target tissue of an interventricular septal wall of a heart when the housing is pivoted toward an apex of the heart. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for handling NR slot aggregation in radio SL co-channel coexistence. A method may include determining that one or more slots of a first radio access technology overlaps a subframe of a second radio access technology. The method may also include detecting whether the second radio access technology is using the subframe of the second radio access technology. The method may further include determining by an outcome of at least one evaluated condition whether to transmit in the one or more overlapping slots or refrain to transmit in the one or more overlapping slots. The method may further include performing transmission with a same transmit power in all the slots that overlap the subframe of the second radio access technology.

Abstract: The present application relates to wireless communications suitable for smart manufacturing and industrial automation. In particular, the application proposes a wireless communication device (UE) and a network device (BS), in particular suitable for cyclic communication. The BS is configured to provide a first information defining a hopping sequence to a UE, and to provide a second information to the UE defining when the hopping sequence should be repeated, in particular periodically repeated. The UE is accordingly configured to receive the first information from the BS, and to receive the second information from the BS. The hopping sequence specifies at least two spatial resources and/or at least two radio resources, which the UE is configured to use for transmissions to and/or from the BS.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus caused at least to determine a common automatic gain control symbol to be transmitted during a first symbol of a slot, wherein the first symbol of the slot is for a transmission of a first automatic gain control symbol by a transmitting sidelink user equipment and for a transmission of a second automatic gain control symbol by a receiving sidelink user equipment and the apparatus is the transmitting sidelink user equipment, wherein the common automatic gain control symbol comprises the first automatic gain control symbol and the second automatic gain control symbol and transmit the first automatic gain control symbol during the first symbol of the slot.

Abstract: Systems and methods authenticate an end user of an enterprise with an external service provider. The enterprise comprises an identity provider and an entitlements data store that communicate via web services calls. The identity provider makes a determination of whether an end user is authorized to access the external service provider based on: (i) authentication of the end user by the identity provider; and (ii) data from the entitlements data store for the end user with respect to the external service provider. Upon a determination by the identity provider that the end user is authorized to access the external service provider, the identity provider send a SAML token to the end user. The SAML token comprises an XML representation of entitlement information for the end user for the external service provider.

Abstract: An SL UE that detects a resource conflict associated with a transmitting UE may be able to indicate this resource conflict by transmitting inter-UE coordination information over a PSFCH resource determined based on a group member ID of the transmitting UE. This may be different from transmitting HARQ feedback via a PSFCH resource determined based on a group member ID of the detecting UE.

Abstract: A UE may receive a request for a set of resource recommendations; determine a current set of resource recommendations; and transmit an indication of the current set of resource recommendations, wherein the indication of the current set of resource recommendations may comprise at least one of: a first offset value associated with respective reference slots for respective resource recommendations of the current set of resource recommendations with respect to a previously indicated set of resource recommendations; or a second offset value associated with a reference slot for an indicated resource recommendation of the current set of resource recommendations with respect to the previously indicated set of resource recommendations.

Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: receiving a first SCI from a first device indicating a first reserved radio resource for transmission by the first device; receiving a second SCI from a second device indicating a second reserved radio resource for transmission by the second device, the first and second reserved radio resource overlapping at least partially; determining a first and second received signal strength associated with the received first and second SCI respectively; determining at least one of a first MCS applied by the first device or a second MCS applied by the second device; determining, based on the first MCS and/or the second MCS, at least one threshold; and determining, based on the at least one threshold and the first and second received signal strengths, whether or not to transmit a resource conflict indication to at least one of the first device or the second device.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: sending a request from a transmitting user device to a second user device for communication resource recommendations based on a resource setting, wherein the communication resource recommendations include preferred and/or non-preferred communications resources for sidelink transmissions from the transmitting user device to a receiving user device. The resource setting is adjusted based on conditions as detected at the transmitting user device.

Abstract: A user equipment includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the user equipment to: select radio resources for a first sidelink transmission to a first user equipment based on sidelink control information from a second user equipment, the sidelink control information including at least beam information for a second sidelink transmission by the second user equipment; and perform the first sidelink transmission to the first user equipment on the selected radio resources.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for multi-link establishment for sidelink (SL) enhancement. A method may include transmitting, to a user equipment, a coordination request for communication over a plurality of beams. Beamformed reference signals may be exchanged with the user equipment identifying corresponding beams of the apparatus and the user equipment. Coordination information comprising at least one of preferred or non-preferred time-frequency-beam resources of the user equipment may be received from the user equipment including preferred or non-preferred radio resources of the user equipment and associated simultaneous links for their communication. At least one of preferred or non-preferred time-frequency-beam resources may be determined for their communication.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for a sidelink, SL, communication comprising means for transmitting a transport block, TB, via the SL communication, means for receiving a feedback in response to the transmitted TB, means for storing information contained in the transmitted TB upon receiving said feedback, means for receiving a status report comprising information associated with the TB, and means for comparing said information contained in the status report with said stored information contained in the transmitted TB in order to identify an attacker based on discrepancy between said information contained in the status report and said stored information contained in the transmitted TB.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: determining a set of candidate radio resources for transmitting data from a first communication node of a non-terrestrial network to a second communication node of the non-terrestrial network over a direct radio link; identifying one or more of the candidate radio resources as conflicting radio resources that conflict with at least one scheduled radio transmission in the non-terrestrial network based, at least in part, on a propagation delay associated with the at least one scheduled radio transmission and/or a propagation delay associated with the radio transmission by the first communication node; generating a subset of candidate radio resources by excluding the identified one or more conflicting radio resources from the set of candidate radio resources; and selecting a radio resource from the subset of candidate radio resources for transmitting the data over the direct radio link.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: determining a set of candidate radio resources for transmitting data from a first communication node of a non-terrestrial network to a second communication node of the non-terrestrial network over a direct radio link; identifying one or more of the candidate radio resources as conflicting radio resources that conflict with at least one scheduled radio transmission in the non-terrestrial network based, at least in part, on a propagation delay associated with the at least one scheduled radio transmission and/or a propagation delay associated with the radio transmission by the first communication node; generating a subset of candidate radio resources by excluding the identified one or more conflicting radio resources from the set of candidate radio resources; and selecting a radio resource from the subset of candidate radio resources for transmitting the data over the direct radio link.

Abstract: An SL UE that detects a resource conflict associated with a transmitting UE may be able to indicate this resource conflict by transmitting inter-UE coordination information over a PSFCH resource determined based on a group member ID of the transmitting UE. This may be different from transmitting HARQ feedback via a PSFCH resource determined based on a group member ID of the detecting UE.

Abstract: An instrument includes: an aberrometer; a corneal topographer; an optical coherence tomographer; and a fixation target subsystem. The fixation target subsystem includes a fixation target and a Stokes cell disposed in an optical path between the fixation target and the eye, wherein the Stokes cell includes a first rotation stage having a first cylinder lens and a second rotation stage having a second cylinder lens, wherein; and a controller configured for controlling a rotation of the first rotation stage and the second rotation stage for correcting for an astigmatism of the eye.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for counter measures for attacking messages are provided. Solution comprises communicating (500) with another apparatus utilising sidelink transmissions, monitoring (502) for an attacking sidelink message based on the content or timing of received messages and entering (504) a defensive mode to mitigate the attack when one or more received messages has been detected as attacking sidelink messages.