Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify that an uplink transmission to a base station is to occur in accordance with an uplink timing advance value representing an amount of time that the uplink transmission takes from transmission at the UE to reception at the base station. The UE may perform an autonomous open-loop adjustment to the uplink timing advance value. The UE may transmit the uplink transmission to the base station in accordance with the adjusted uplink timing advance value. The base station may transmit an indication of a set of uplink timing advance values for a UE to use for uplink transmissions, each of the set of uplink timing advance values representing an amount of time that an uplink transmission is expected to take from transmission at the UE to reception at the base station.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central entity may determine a set of schedulable resources for a plurality of links associated with a plurality of nodes of a multi-link network; and may provide scheduling information to the plurality of nodes to schedule communication on the plurality of links based at least in part on determining the set of schedulable resources. In some aspects, a node of a network may determine an extended slot format indicator for the node based at least in part on a received extended slot format indicator of a parent node of the node and a received null adjust request from a child node of the node; may provide the determined extended slot format indicator to the child node; and may provide the received null adjust request to the parent node. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Aspects relate to technologies and techniques for migrating a radio access network (RAN) node associated with a first donor node in a communications network. The first donor node may receive, via a first communications interface, such as an F1-C or resource control (RRC) interface, cell configuration data associated with one or more cells of the RAN node activated by the first donor node. The first donor node may process the cell configuration data and transit the cell configuration data, using a second communications interface, such as an Xn or X2 interface, to a second donor node for use in migrating the RAN node from the first donor node to the second donor node.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB)-donor central unit (CU) may trigger connectivity between a distributed unit (DU) of a first network node and the IAB-donor CU, wherein the first network node comprises an IAB-node. The IAB may instantiate connectivity between a mobile terminal (MT) of the first network node and the IAB-donor CU after instantiation of the connectivity between the DU of the first network node and the IAB-donor CU. The IAB may transmit a communication to a second network node via the first network node. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node may transmit, to a second wireless node, a cross-link interference (CLI) management configuration message including information identifying a time division duplexing configuration of a mobile terminal of a third wireless node; and communicate with one or more wireless nodes in accordance with the time division duplexing configuration of the mobile terminal based at least in part on transmitting the CLI management configuration message to the second wireless node. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Techniques for using simultaneous connectivity for mobility of integrated access and backhaul nodes may include an IAB node establishing a first connection with a first parent node (e.g., second IAB node) associated with a first IAB donor device (e.g., first base station) and establishing a second connection with a second parent node (third IAB node), wherein the second connection is simultaneous with the first connection. The IAB node may also switch the first connection from the first parent node to the second parent node. In doing so, the IAB node may have dual connectivity with the second parent node, where one connection is a master connection and the other connection is a secondary connection.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may identify one or more resources for transmitting one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), the one or more resources being associated with a mobility state of the IAB node. The IAB node may transmit the one or more SSBs in the one or more resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for UL LBT status reporting. A scheduled node (e.g., a UE) may sense a status of each LBT channel in a set of one or more LBT channels. The set of one or more LBT channels may include at least one of one or more first LBT channels associated with a scheduling grant or one or more second LBT channels unassociated with the scheduling grant. The scheduled node may transmit, to a scheduling node (e.g., a base station), a LBT status report indicative of the status of each LBT channel in the set of one or more LBT channels. The scheduling node may schedule, via a second scheduling grant, a second set of one or more LBT channels based on the status of each LBT channel indicated in the LBT status report.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a distributed unit (DU) of a first integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node may configure an indication of a capability to reuse measurements, associated with a mobile terminal of the first IAB node, as crosslink interference measurements for a DU of a second IAB node. The DU may transmit the indication to a central unit of an IAB donor. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for avoiding conflicts of resources assigned to one or more signals with resources assigned to Random Access Channel (RACH) in an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network. Configurations for first and second sets of signals are obtained for a first and second base station (BS) respectively. Based on the obtained configurations, a RACH configuration is determined for the first BS for performing a RACH procedure with the second BS over a wireless backhaul link, wherein one or more Physical RACH (PRACH) occasions according to the determined RACH configuration do not conflict with resources used for at least one of the first or the second set of signals. The determined RACH configuration is communicated to the second BS, wherein the second BS transmits a RACH signal to the first BS based on the determined RACH configuration.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a child node in a wireless multi-hop network may receive a cost parameter from a neighbor node in the wireless multi-hop network, wherein the cost parameter indicates a cost, due to an operating mode of the neighbor node, of selecting the neighbor node as a target node for a handover procedure, a cell selection procedure, or a cell reselection procedure. The child node may perform the handover procedure, the cell selection procedure, or the cell reselection procedure based at least in part on the cost parameter. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for system information (SI) for access and backhaul. An access node (AN) may provide SI to devices within its cell indicating communication procedure configurations. The AN may provide SI to devices that is specific to whether the communication procedure is an access procedure or a backhaul procedure. The AN may transmit a common master information block (MIB) directing the devices within its cell to a search space in order to receive the remaining SI. The search space may be shared between access devices and backhaul devices or alternatively may be separate between access and backhaul devices. The remaining SI may not be shared between access and backhaul devices. The devices may determine different configurations as defined by the SI from the AN for communications procedures based on whether the procedure is an access procedure or a backhaul procedure.

Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to resource allocation in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) system. In an example, the aspects include receiving, by a wireless node, an indication of not-available (NA) resources of a parent node, the NA resources corresponding to a first set of one or more resources configured at the parent node as being unavailable for uplink and downlink communications between the parent node and the wireless node, wherein the indication of NA resources of the parent node comprises an invalid time division duplex (TDD)-uplink-downlink configuration; and refraining, by the wireless node, from communicating with the parent node within the NA resources based on the indication of NA resources of the parent node.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a child node may receive a message, from a serving or neighboring cell, that includes an indication of an intended time division duplex (TDD) configuration for the serving or neighboring cell. The indication may include downlink and uplink indicators for at least one slot used within the intended TDD configuration. Accordingly, the child node may determine a symbol to use within a TDD configuration for the child node, based at least in part on receiving the message. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support resource utilization based event triggering. A wireless node in a wireless communications system may establish a connection with a core network via a path that includes one or more relay nodes. The wireless node may determine that a network load associated with one or more paths between the wireless node and the core network has changed, or that a difference between two or more network loads of different paths has changed. Based on such a determination, the wireless node may transmit a report to the network. In some cases, the network may receive the report from the wireless node, and may initiate a path change based on the report.

Abstract: A configuration for dynamically updating the neighbor list sent to a UE based on the location of the UE and the location of one or more mobile relays. The apparatus receives first location information for one or more UEs. The apparatus receives second location information for one or more mobile relays. The apparatus determines a distance between the one or more UEs and each of the one or more mobile relays. The apparatus sends assistance information to at least one of the one or more UEs in an area, the assistance information identifying at least one mobile relay of the one or more mobile relays based on the determined distance between the one or more UEs and the at least one mobile relay.

Abstract: A network management function of a relay network may identify relay node support of multi-mobile terminal (MT) operation, and may coordinate configuration of multiple backhaul links supported by the relay node via the multi-MT functionality of the relay node. In some cases, a relay node may transmit MT capabilities to the management function over a first established backhaul link, and the management function may configure a second backhaul link using a second MT function of the relay node. In other cases, the relay node may autonomously establish multi-MT connectivity based on preconfigured parent-selection policies, and the network management function may identify the relay node is dual-connected to the network management function. In either case, the network management function may configure backhaul routes (e.g., backhaul links) and resource configuration across the redundant topology.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a node in a wireless network may transmit an indication of a capability of the node for simultaneous communication with respect to at least one of: multiple parent nodes of the node, multiple mobile termination components of the node, multiple transmit receive points of the node, multiple cells of the node, or a combination thereof; and communicate with another node in the wireless network based at least in part on the capability. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first parent node of a wireless backhaul network may receive, from a donor node of the wireless backhaul network, a token for a child node of the wireless backhaul network, the token being unique to a first wireless link between the first parent node and the child node. The first parent node may determine that a triggering event has occurred for a second wireless link between the first parent node and a second parent node. The first parent node may transmit, in response to determining that the triggering event has occurred, the token to the child node over the first wireless link to indicate for the child node to select a third parent node of the wireless backhaul network.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for mobility-aware access control. A method that may be performed by a first wireless device generally includes receiving one or more signals from a second wireless device in the network, wherein the one or more signals provide an indication of a mobility state corresponding to the second wireless device; determining whether to establish a connection with the second wireless device based, at least in part, on the indication of the mobility state corresponding to the second wireless device; and taking one or more actions based on the determination. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.