Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support network-assisted cell selection for a device. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes generating configuration information associated with a cell selection procedure for a user equipment (UE). The cell selection procedure is associated with a passive device or a semi-passive device of the UE. The configuration information includes energy harvesting information, reference signal (RS) configuration information, or a combination thereof. The method further includes transmitting, to the UE, the configuration information. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Positioning of one or more user equipments (UEs) is performed using broadcast common sounding reference signals (SRS) resources for positioning. The common SRS that is broadcast by a UE is received and measured by one or more base stations and one or more other UEs. The other UEs may have known positions and may server as anchor nodes for positioning. The other UEs may have known positions and may serve as a positioning (anchor) node or may have unknown positions and may be jointly positioned with the target UE. During joint positioning, each of the other UEs may similarly broadcast a common set of SRS that is received and measured by the base stations and other UEs for positioning. An angular measurement of the SRS broadcast by one or more UEs may be measured and used to resolve minor symmetry in positioning solutions.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For instance, a wireless device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a base station) may transmit a set of data messages to a set of UEs, the set of data messages including one or more data messages for each UE of the set of UEs. Each UE may select a respective sequence representing feedback associated with the one or more data messages, the sequence being selected from a sequence pool that includes a first plurality of sequences representing acknowledgement feedback and a second plurality of sequences representing negative acknowledgement feedback, individual sequences of at least the second set of sequences being non-orthogonal to each other. Each UE may transmit the respective selected sequence to the wireless device via a shared set of time and frequency resources that are shared for feedback messages from the set of UEs.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for accelerated ray tracing. For instance, a process can include obtaining a hierarchical acceleration data structure that includes a plurality of primitives of a scene object and obtaining a respective information value associated with each primitive included in the plurality of primitives. A sort order can be determined for two or more nodes included in a same level of the hierarchical acceleration data structure at least in part by sorting the two or more nodes based on a respective sorting parameter value determined for each respective node of the two or more nodes. Each respective sorting parameter value can be determined based on at least one information value associated with one or more primitives included in a sub-tree of each respective node of the two or more nodes. The hierarchical acceleration data structure can be traversed using the sort order.

Abstract: Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method of wireless communication includes determining, based on environment information about an environment in which a user equipment (UE) that is receiving positioning reference signals (PRSs) using a first bandwidth (BW) is operating, a second BW to be used by the UE for receiving PRSs, and transmitting PRSs using the second BW to be used by the UE for receiving PRSs.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for using automatic gain control symbols to indicate a sidelink mini-slot. A method performed by a transmitting user equipment includes transmitting, during a first time portion of a symbol within a slot, a first beam associated with a first receiving user equipment. The first time portion of the symbol is configured to indicate that the first receiving user equipment will receive another transmission from the transmitting user equipment during a first mini-slot within the slot associated with the first time portion. The method may further include transmitting, during a second time portion of the symbol within the slot, a second beam associated with a second receiving user equipment. The second time portion of the symbol is configured to indicate that the second receiving user equipment will receive another transmission from the transmitting user equipment during a second mini-slot within the slot.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink cancellation indication that indicates a set of resources in which to cancel sidelink communications, wherein the set of resources overlaps with at least one of a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH), a gap symbol, or a sidelink synchronization signal block (S-SSB). The UE may perform one or more sidelink cancellation actions associated with the at least one of the PSFCH, the gap symbol, or the S-SSB. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for using automatic gain control symbols to indicate a sidelink mini-slot. A method performed by a transmitting user equipment includes transmitting, during a first time portion of a symbol within a slot, a first beam associated with a first receiving user equipment. The first time portion of the symbol is configured to indicate that the first receiving user equipment will receive another transmission from the transmitting user equipment during a first mini-slot within the slot associated with the first time portion. The method may further include transmitting, during a second time portion of the symbol within the slot, a second beam associated with a second receiving user equipment. The second time portion of the symbol is configured to indicate that the second receiving user equipment will receive another transmission from the transmitting user equipment during a second mini-slot within the slot.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication by a transmitter generally including transmitting a first energy signal to a receiver and receiving, from the receiver, feedback regarding an energy state of the first energy signal as received at the receiver.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently performing and reporting reference signal received power (RSRP) measurements. In particular, the techniques described herein may allow a user equipment (UE) to efficiently identify reference signals on which to perform RSRP measurements (e.g., based on signaling from a base station), identify when to report RSRP measurements (e.g., aperiodically, periodically, or semi-persistently), and identify a channel on which to report RSRP measurements (e.g., a sidelink channel or an uplink channel). In addition, the techniques described herein may also allow a UE to efficiently identify open loop parameters to use to determine an appropriate transmit power for transmitting to another UE over a sidelink.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may transmit feedback signaling for received sidelink messages to both the base station and the transmitting UE. The receiving UE may multicast a feedback message to both the base station and the transmitting UE on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH). The base station may configure the receiving UE with resources, the transmitting UE may allocate resources to the receiving UE, or the base station may actively monitor for the feedback message. In some examples, the receiving UE may operate in a dual connectivity mode, and may transmit the feedback message to both the base station and the transmitting UE on both the PUCCH and the PSFCH.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An energy transmitter device may transmit an energy signal to an energy receiver device for energy harvesting by the energy receiver device. To communicate channel state information (CSI) of a channel between the energy transmitter device and the energy receiver device, the energy transmitter device may transmit a first signal to the energy receiver device. In response, the energy receiver device may transmit a second signal to the energy transmitter device that is indicative of the CSI, where the CSI is based on the first signal. The energy transmitter device may transmit additional signals to the energy receiver device whose transmission characteristics are based on the CSI.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for multi-carrier on-off keying communications. A method for wireless communications by an apparatus includes receiving a signal comprising multiple carrier frequencies modulated with on-off keying; decoding the signal based at least in part on a delta frequency being associated with a first carrier frequency and a second carrier frequency among the multiple carrier frequencies; and recovering data from the decoded signal.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by an apparatus. A method includes transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of a first frequency of a first signal and an indication of a second frequency of a backscattered signal corresponding to the first signal; transmitting the first signal; and receiving, from the UE, information encoded in the backscattered signal.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some communications systems, interference may impede signaling between a base station and a target user equipment (UE) such that a base station may identify a donor UE to relay communications to the target UE. The donor UE may receive a coded data packet from the base station, and may identify a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) scrambling code for the packets addressed to the target UE. In cases where the donor UE identifies that the packet has an RNTI scrambling code associated with the target UE, the donor UE may forward the coded data packet to the target UE base on the RNTI scrambling code. Such early detection of data packets addressed to the target UE may allow for the UE to forward a data packet without fully decoding the packet.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for improving sidelink communication reliability. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may map allocated sidelink resources from a logical domain to a physical domain, where the mapped resources may include greater frequency diversity in the physical domain A frequency range of a sidelink control channel or of a sidelink data channel may be greater in the physical domain than in the logical domain after the mapping. In some examples, sidelink communications may be associated with an aggregation factor that represents a number of repetitions of a sidelink communication. In this example, a UE may repeat a sidelink communication within a contention-based resource pool a number of times before receiving feedback in order to increase communication reliability. A first UE may communicate a sidelink communication with a second UE using a resource mapping or repetitions of the sidelink communication.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications at an ambient internet of things (IoT) device. The ambient IoT device measures signal strength of a downlink signal transmitted from a gNodeB (gNB). The ambient IoT device estimates a pathloss between the gNB and itself based at least on the measured signal strength. Based on the pathloss between the ambient IoT device and the gNB, and together with measured received power from an assisting node, the ambient IoT device may select a random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) so that a received power at the gNB from the ambient IoT device is constrained to a limited range.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring a search space for sidelink communications between one or more sensors/actuators (SAs) and programmable logic controller (PLC) in internet of things (IoT) applications in order to minimize the number of subchannels that a receiver (e.g., PLC or SA) may need to blind decode. More particularly, the search space is configurable based on a hashing function that is based in part on a portion of the resources (e.g., PLC resources) that have been allocated or reserved for sidelink communication within the PLC subnetwork (or PLC group) from the sidelink resource pool available to a plurality of PLCs in a network. By limiting the search space to a subset of resources that are specific to the PLC subnetwork or group, the need for the SA or PLC to perform blind decoding of sidelink control information (SCI) may be further reduced.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a reader device may transmit a delta message that indicates a frequency difference between a data tone frequency for the reader device and a helper tone frequency. The reader device may transmit a data tone signal at the data tone frequency and a helper tone signal at the helper tone frequency. The helper tone signal may be a waveform that is shared among multiple reader devices. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for determining sidelink channel metrics using reference signal measurements of reference signals transmitted by other UEs. A first UE may receive a control message from a base station, and the control message may indicate a measurement threshold. The first UE may generate a reference signal measurement of a reference signal transmitted by a second UE via a sidelink channel between the first UE and the second UE. The UE may transmit a measurement report to the base station based at least in part on the measurement satisfying the threshold. The report may be a quantized value of the measurement or a bit indicating that the measurement satisfies the threshold. Based on receipt of the measurement report, the base station may determine to transmit data to the second UE via a transmission to the first UE.