Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify conditions associated with one or more physical channels, for example, a set of resources with which the UE may be configured to communicate with a base station. The UE may determine whether to enable a reduced power mode based on the conditions satisfying certain criteria, for example, the set of resources corresponding allocated for particular transmissions. The UE may identify that the conditions satisfy corresponding criteria, and the UE may determine to enable the reduced power mode. The UE may accordingly modify operations one or more components of a receive chain of the UE. The UE may determine to disable the reduced power mode based on the conditions failing to satisfy the criteria, and the UE may modify operations of the one or more components of the receive chain accordingly.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may synchronize a beam switch of the base station with transmission of a reference signal for channel state feedback, and schedule a channel state feedback report to be transmitted after the transmission of the reference signal for channel state feedback. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: In one aspect, performing, by a wireless communication device, a non-coherent encoding operation on first data to generate a first transmission, wherein the non-coherent encoding operation encodes data independent of channel state information (CSI); and transmitting, by the wireless communication device, the first transmission, wherein the first transmission is non-coherently encoded. In another aspect, receiving, by a wireless communication device, a first transmission, wherein the first transmission is non-coherently encoded independent of channel state information (CSI); and performing, by the wireless communication device, a non-coherent decoding operation on the first transmission to decode the first transmission. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting a first message indicating a precoding matrix identifier configured to identify a particular precoding matrix for precoding by another wireless communication device for at least one future transmission; and receiving a second message indicating information about whether the particular precoding matrix was or will be used for the at least one future transmission. In another aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a first message indicating a precoding matrix identifier configured to identify a particular precoding matrix for precoding by the wireless communication device for at least one future transmission; and transmitting a second message indicating information about whether the particular precoding matrix was or will be used for precoding for the at least one future transmission. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may monitor sets of decoding candidates over a search space in each monitoring occasion to detect downlink control transmissions. Such a monitoring process may be resource intensive. To reduce the processing power involved in monitoring the control channel, a UE may measure resources associated with the downlink control channel to obtain a quality metric. The UE may compare the quality metric to one or more thresholds and may perform a decoding process on a set of configured decoding candidates for the downlink control channel based on the comparing. In some cases, if the channel quality is relatively good, the UE may perform a list decoding process using a list size less than a maximum list size or may perform partial data tone processing to reduce the processing complexity for some of the decoding candidates.

Abstract: In one aspect, performing, by a wireless communication device, a non-coherent encoding operation on first data to generate a first transmission, wherein the non-coherent encoding operation encodes data independent of channel state information (CSI); and transmitting, by the wireless communication device, the first transmission, wherein the first transmission is non-coherently encoded. In another aspect, receiving, by a wireless communication device, a first transmission, wherein the first transmission is non-coherently encoded independent of channel state information (CSI); and performing, by the wireless communication device, a non-coherent decoding operation on the first transmission to decode the first transmission. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for mapping two-stage sidelink control with multiple layer sidelink data channel. A first user equipment (UE) can rate-match a multiple-layer second stage of a two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) transmission as a single layer. The first UE transmits the multiple-layer second stage of the two-stage SCI, to a second UE, using multiple antenna ports.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may receive, using a first receive port, a first signal within a first frequency band, where the first receive port may be associated with a first receive beam. The wireless device may also receive, using a second receive port, a second signal within the first frequency band concurrently with receiving the first signal, where the second receive port may be associated with a second receive beam. After receiving the first and second signals, the wireless device may process both signals. Processing the signals may include decoding both of the signals, measuring both of the signals, and/or decoding one of the signals and measuring the other of the signals. To support concurrent reception over multiple receive beams within a single frequency band, the wireless device may employ an idle antenna panel and corresponding receive ports.

Abstract: In some aspects, a UE may select a first type of antenna for communication with a base station based at least in part on a beam management procedure that uses an RSRP parameter determined using a downlink reference signal associated with a single antenna port; measure a CSI-RS resource for CSF, associated with multiple antenna ports, using a second type of antenna and after selecting the first type of antenna; compare a first spectral efficiency parameter associated with communicating using the first type of antenna and a second spectral efficiency parameter determined based at least in part on measuring the CSI-RS resource for CSF using the second type of antenna; and select one of the first type of antenna or the second type of antenna for subsequent communication with the base station based at least in part on comparing the first spectral efficiency parameter and the second spectral efficiency parameter.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may receive a beamformed signal from a transmitting device. The wireless device may estimate a weighted sum based at least in part on one or more coefficients that relate to impairments associated with the transmitting device, a spatial location of the wireless device, and/or the like. The wireless device may determine a cryptographic key based at least in part on a ratio among the plurality of coefficients in the weighted sum, and one or more communications between the wireless device and the transmitting device may be secured based on the cryptographic key. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may receive a sounding waveform via a reciprocal wireless channel. The wireless device may estimate one or more channel parameters associated with the reciprocal wireless channel based at least in part on the sounding waveform. The wireless device may generate a cryptographic key based at least in part on the one or more channel parameters associated with the reciprocal wireless channel. The wireless device may establish a secure communication session over the reciprocal wireless channel based at least in part on the cryptographic key. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter device may transmit a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) communication using a first code block order for code blocks of the HARQ communication; detect a trigger to retransmit the HARQ communication based at least in part on transmitting the HARQ communication; reorder the code blocks of the HARQ communication based at least in part on detecting the trigger to retransmit the HARQ communication; and retransmit the HARQ communication using a second code block order based at least in part on reordering the code blocks of the HARQ communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently reporting channel state feedback for a set of subbands. As an example, a user equipment (UE) may receive a set of reference signals on the set of subbands and determine a respective channel quality indicator (CQI) index for each of the set of subbands based on the reference signals. The UE may then transmit indications of CQI indices for different subbands of the set using variable length indications, such as indications that include different numbers of bits. Since, in some examples, a small length or number of bits may be allocated for reporting CQI indices with a high probability of being reported, overhead in a wireless communications system may be reduced.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first signal associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and receive a second signal associated with a second RAT. In some aspects, the UE may include one or more receiver chains associated with the first RAT and at least one receiver chain associated with the second RAT. The UE may couple, via one or more switches and based at least in part on respective energy levels associated with the first signal and the second signal satisfying one or more conditions, an output from a front end of the at least one receiver chain associated with the second RAT to the one or more receiver chains associated with the first RAT. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to minimizing the block error rate (BLER) experienced by a user equipment (UE) upon a downlink beam switch at the base station. The base station may mitigate the link adaptation convergence transient upon performing a beam switch by modifying the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) according to a difference in reference signal received power (RSRP) between the old beam and the new beam. The base station may further adjust the MCS utilizing an outer-loop link adaptation process or channel state feedback (CSF) provided by the UE after the beam switch. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Systems and methods to detect spurious responses (spurs) in association with mmWave wireless communications are described. Such spurs may originate internal to the receiver (internal spurs) or external to the receiver (external spurs) originated in the transmitter. Embodiments operate to identify received mmWave wireless communication signal spurs in symbols, or portions thereof, which do not have transmissions directed to the receiving device. mmWave spur detection implementations of embodiments can detect spurs in real-time operation of the receiving device. Such real-time spur detection facilitates operation by the receiving device to perform spur removal in real-time operation of the receiving device, thus enabling removal of both internal spurs and external spurs as well as dynamically adapting to different scenarios that cause different spurs. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may identify location data associated with a physical location of the transmitting device. The transmitting device may identify a time-frequency resource within a slot, the time-frequency resource corresponding to at least a portion of the location data associated with the physical location of the transmitting device. The transmitting device may generate a sequence based at least in part on the portion of the location data, or the slot, or the time-frequency resource, or a combination thereof. The transmitting device may encode a signal using the sequence. The transmitting device may transmit the signal using the identified time-frequency resource to indicate the physical location of the transmitting device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may include an interference estimation procedure that measures interference from radio access technologies (RATs) different from cellular vehicle to everything (CV2X) on the CV2X network at a user equipment (UE). A UE may record measurements of interference on the CV2X network when no CV2X signal is present during the last symbol of a subframe. Then, the UE may estimate the noise plus interference measured during the empty symbol to improve noise plus interference whitening when decoding a subframe.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam refinement. The techniques presented herein may allow for beam refinement using an existing frame structure and utilizing resources (receive antenna ports) that may otherwise be idle.

Abstract: In some aspects, a UE may select a first type of antenna for communication with a base station based at least in part on a beam management procedure that uses an RSRP parameter determined using a downlink reference signal associated with a single antenna port; measure a CSI-RS resource for CSF, associated with multiple antenna ports, using a second type of antenna and after selecting the first type of antenna; compare a first spectral efficiency parameter associated with communicating using the first type of antenna and a second spectral efficiency parameter determined based at least in part on measuring the CSI-RS resource for CSF using the second type of antenna; and select one of the first type of antenna or the second type of antenna for subsequent communication with the base station based at least in part on comparing the first spectral efficiency parameter and the second spectral efficiency parameter.