Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) packet. The UE may duplicate, at a protocol stack layer of the UE, the V2X packet to form a plurality of duplicated V2X packets, wherein each duplicated V2X packet is associated with a directional range. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes transmitting, by a wireless communication device, a transmission using a first set of transmission resources, wherein the transmission includes an indication of a second set of one or more of transmission resources in the future that the wireless communication device intends to use for one or more second transmissions, and wherein the transmission includes a total transmit power QCL indication for at least one transmission of the one or more second transmissions. The method further includes transmitting, by the wireless communication device, a particular transmission of the one or more second transmissions using a particular set of transmission resources of the second set of one or more of transmission resources based on the total transmit power QCL indication. In another aspect, a transmit power configuration indication may be sent in place of the total transmit power QCL indication, as a generalization and extension of the TTP QCL indication.

Abstract: A method of wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE) includes requesting multi-static channel sensing estimates from a device to establish a communications link with a second UE, and receiving the multi-static channel sensing estimates from the device. The method further includes setting communication parameters based on the multi-static channel sensing estimates. The method still further includes communicating with the second UE over the communications link based on the communication parameters.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an encoder device may receive, from a base station, in accordance with a buffer configuration of the encoder device or a buffer report associated with the encoder device, an indication of a set of transport blocks (TBs) for a network coded sidelink retransmission, the set of TBs associated with one or more sidelink transmissions. The encoder device may transmit the network coded sidelink retransmission based at least in part on encoding TBs, included in the set of TBs, that are stored in a buffer of the encoder device. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for subchannel-based listen before talk (LBT). An example method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one or more transmissions indicating one or more allocated subchannels of a frequency band that are allocated during a first time period, the frequency band comprising the one or more allocated subchannels and one or more unallocated subchannels during the first time period; sensing the one or more unallocated subchannels for at least a portion of the first time period prior to a second time period; and transmitting a signal within the frequency band during the second time period based on energy sensed for the one or more unallocated subchannels being less than a threshold.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sidelink communications in an unlicensed spectrum. A method that may be performed by a first device includes sensing that an unlicensed frequency band is idle, the unlicensed frequency band consisting of a plurality of subchannels. The method also includes, in response to sensing that the unlicensed frequency band is idle, transmitting, by the first device, at least one of a data signal or a reservation signal during an entire duration of a time period over one or more subchannels of the plurality of subchannels, the at least one of the data signal or the reservation signal reserving the unlicensed frequency band during the time period.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an encoder device may transmit a network coded sidelink retransmission that is associated with a set of transport blocks (TBs), the set of TBs associated with one or more sidelink transmissions. The encoder device may receive, from one or more user equipments (UEs), first feedback information, associated with the network coded sidelink retransmission, that indicates whether the one or more UEs successfully decoded the set of TBs. The encoder device may transmit, to a base station, second feedback information associated with the network coded sidelink retransmission that is based at least in part on the first feedback information. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for sidelink feedback reporting over an unlicensed spectrum in a wireless communication system. In aspects, a transmitting UE monitors for a feedback response for a sidelink transmission from one or more receiving UEs at each feedback occasion of a sidelink feedback window. A receiving UE attempts to transmit the feedback response by performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure at each feedback occasion of the sidelink feedback window. In aspects, the sidelink feedback window may be defined as a plurality of sidelink feedback occasions, or may be defined as a duration of an LBT timer covering a plurality of sidelink feedback occasions. The receiving UE stops attempting to transmit the feedback response once the receiving UE successfully performs an LBT procedure at a feedback occasion, and the transmitting UE stops monitoring for a feedback response a feedback response is successfully received.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to reduce interference caused by power leakage. A first user equipment (UE) or a base station may select communication resources for a sidelink communication based on a distance between UEs reserving frequency resources in a same time window. The first UE or the base station may determine a distance parameter between the first UE and one or more other UEs (e.g., including a second UE) reserving frequency resources within the time window. The distance parameter may represent a physical distance between the first and second UEs or a reference signal received power of the second UE as received by the first UE. The first UE or the base station may select communication resources based on whether the distance parameter is below a threshold, and the first UE may communicate the sidelink communication using the selected resources.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may receive, on a sidelink and from a second wireless communication device, resource reservation information associated with the second wireless communication device. The resource reservation information may identify sidelink resources that are reserved for the second wireless communication device for transmission on the sidelink. The first wireless communication device may transmit, on the sidelink, the resource reservation information to a third wireless communication device. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating scrambling of sidelink control information for sidelink communication are disclosed herein. The scrambling of the SCI may include scrambling CRC, scrambling information bits, and/or scrambling channel bits. An example method for wireless communication at a user equipment UE includes scrambling at least a portion of SCI. The example method also includes transmitting the SCI carrying control information for a sidelink transmission. In another aspect, an example method for wireless communication at a UE includes receiving SCI having scrambled bits. The example method also includes decoding the SCI based on information known to the UE.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment may determine parameters for congestion metrics based on a type for a channel access procedure associated with a sidelink transmission. The user equipment may determine a channel access procedure type for a sidelink channel transmission, and determine a limit for a channel occupancy (e.g., a channel occupancy ratio) based on the type. The user equipment may compare the channel occupancy with the limit to determine whether to transmit the sidelink channel transmission, based on whether the channel is available. In some aspects, the user equipment may additionally perform the channel access procedure (e.g., a listen before talk procedure) to determine whether to transmit the sidelink channel transmission. The user equipment may also perform channel measurements to obtain a congestion metric (e.g., a channel busy ratio) based on a threshold before transmitting the sidelink channel transmission.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive information identifying a shared channel occupancy for a packet transmission resource; determine a range metric for die shared channel occupancy based at least in part on location information; determine whether to share the shared channel occupancy for packet transmission using the packet transmission resource based at least in part on the range metric; and selectively transmit one or more packets in the shared channel occupancy based at least in part on a result of determining whether to share the shared channel occupancy. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Aspects relate to group-based reference signal broadcast in a wireless communication network. A first wireless communication device may transmit a first group formation broadcast message associated with a first positioning group comprising a first plurality of wireless communication devices including the first wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device may receive a second group formation broadcast message associated with a second positioning group comprising a second plurality of wireless communication devices including a second wireless communication device. The second positioning group may be associated with a channel occupancy time (CoT) in a sidelink channel. The CoT may comprise transmission opportunities configured to be used by the second plurality of wireless communication devices for communicating reference signals.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may transmit the sidelink message to a second UE via a sidelink communications channel of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. The first UE or the second UE may transmit a reservation signal to retain the sidelink communication channel for corresponding feedback for the sidelink message (e.g., while the second UE generates a feedback transmission). The second UE may transmit the feedback transmission over the sidelink communication channel.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit, in a first slot within a channel occupancy time (COT), a first communication; determine whether one or more transmission criteria are satisfied for transmission of a second communication in a second slot within the COT; and selectively transmit the second communication in the second slot within the COT based at least in part on a result of determining whether the one or more transmission criteria are satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may transmit, from the mobile station to an encoding device, acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) feedback based at least in part on a transmission by the encoding device, wherein the ACK-NACK feedback is associated with a feedback bin, and wherein the feedback bin is associated with a location of the mobile station. The mobile station may receive, at the mobile station from the encoding device, a network coding transport block, wherein the network coding transport block is formed based at least in part on the transmission and the ACK-NACK feedback associated with the feedback bin. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for assisted mmW sidelink beam discovery in non-standalone mode. A UE may transmit, to an AN, a request to access one or more ADs. The request may be based on an absence of at least one BPL that has a threshold QoS for a DRB with a second UE. The UE may receive, from the AN based on the transmitted request, an authorization to access the one or more ADs, and exchange, via an SRB, beam training information with the second UE based on the authorization to access the one or more ADs for performing a beam training procedure via the one or more ADs.

Abstract: A transmitting user equipment (UE) may perform resource hopping for a periodic sidelink resource reservation by scheduling a plurality of periodic sidelink resources with a first periodicity, the plurality of periodic sidelink resources being shifted at a first offset in a frequency domain. The transmitting UE may reduce persistent collisions of periodic or semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) reservation of the sidelink resources with another UE. The transmitting UE may transmit, to a receiving UE, sidelink control information (SCI) indicating the first offset and the plurality of sidelink transmissions via the plurality of periodic sidelink resources at the first periodicity based on the SCI. The receiving UE may receive, from the transmitting UE, the SCI and the plurality of sidelink transmissions via the plurality of periodic sidelink resources at the first periodicity based on the SCI.

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication within a network. The UE receives, from a radio access network (RAN) entity, one of an uplink indication or an uplink port identification associated with an uplink port. The uplink indication and the uplink port identification are associated with an uplink message. The UE also maps one of the uplink indication to a sidelink indication associated with a sidelink message or the uplink port identification to a sidelink port identification associated with a sidelink port and the sidelink message. The UE further superposition codes the uplink message and the sidelink message into a broadcast transmission based on one of (A) the uplink indication and the sidelink indication, or (B) the uplink port and the sidelink port. In addition, the UE transmits, to the RAN entity, the broadcast transmission.