Abstract: The positioning capabilities of a User Equipment (UE) are stored in a core network to reduce positioning latency when the UE indicates that its positioning capabilities are stable and/or are long term valid. The UE may provide its positioning capabilities to a location server during a location session along with an indication of whether the positioning capabilities are stable. The location server may enable storage of the positioning capabilities for the UE in the core network, e.g., in the location server or another entity in the core network such as Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), if there is an indication that the positioning capabilities are stable. The AMF may include a UE identifier in location requests with which the location server may retrieve the UE positioning capabilities if stored at the location server or may include the UE positioning capabilities if stored at the AMF.

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: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems may support inter-user equipment (UE) cross-link interference (CLI) reduction. For example, a first UE may receive sidelink signaling from one or more other UEs and may generate measurement information associated with inter-UE cross link interference between the first UE and the one or more other UEs based on the sidelink signaling. Further, the first UE may transmit, to a network entity, an inter-UE cross link interference report that includes information indicative of a first set of one or more UEs from among the one or more other UEs, where each UE of the first set of one or more UEs is associated with respective measurement information of the measurement information that satisfies a threshold.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first node may transmit, to a second node on a beamformed link from the first node to the second node, a first signal, wherein the first node and the second node are associated with common timing; determine whether a second signal, based at least in part on the first signal, is received on a beamformed link from the second node to the first node; and transmit a third signal based at least in part on receiving the second signal or perform a sidelink beam failure recovery procedure based at least in part on determining that the second signal is not received. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for air interface and sidelink discontinuous reception alignment for inactive/idle user equipment. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a second user equipment at a first user equipment over a sidelink interface, discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration assistance information and transmitting, from the first user equipment to a network via an air interface, the DRX configuration assistance information.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment (UE) may utilize opportunistic cooperative relaying to support exchanging packets between UEs without establishing or maintaining beamforming alignment between the UEs. Specifically, a source UE may invite nearby UEs (e.g., helper UEs) that receive a sidelink transmission (e.g., a packet meant for a different destination UE) to perform a single frequency network (SFN)-type transmission to opportunistically relay the packet to the destination UE. The helper UEs may receive, decode, and transmit the sidelink signaling from the source UE without establishing or configuring a relay agreement with the source UE. The destination UE may receive the sidelink signaling via cascading, SFN-type transmissions by one or more helper UEs. The destination UE may respond to the sidelink signaling with feedback information via one or more helper UEs or directly to the source UE.

Abstract: A UE may be configured to receive, from a base station, a downlink transmission on a downlink data channel including data and an indication of a beam switch; transmit first ACK feedback to the base station in response to receiving the data; and transmit second ACK feedback to the base station in response to receiving the indication of the beam switch, the second ACK feedback being separate from the first ACK feedback. A base station may be configured to transmit, to a UE, a downlink transmission on a downlink data channel including data and an indication of a beam switch; receive first ACK feedback from the UE in response to transmitting the data; and receive second ACK feedback from the UE in response to transmitting the indication of the beam switch, the second ACK feedback being separate from the first ACK feedback.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for informing a network of a timing source outage in a node and reestablishing a synchronized time in the node. An example method for providing a timing source outage notification includes detecting an outage of a timing source, determining one or more impacted nodes, generating one or more notification messages based at least in part on a communication context for each of the one or more impacted nodes, and transmitting the one or more notification messages.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for signaling of reception-to-transmission measurements from gNBs and user equipments (UEs) for round trip time (RTT) based positioning in wireless networks such as new radio (NR). In multi-RTT positioning, the flow of messages that are exchanged differ depending on the entity acting as the location server determining the position of the UE.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communications. In an aspect, a network entity determines whether a source reference signal transmitted from a first transmission-reception point (TRP) is a quasi-collocation (QCL) source of a target reference signal transmitted from a second TRP based, at least in part, on a first bandwidth (BW) portion occupied by the source reference signal and a second BW portion occupied by the target reference signal, the first BW portion having a first start frequency and a first BW size and the second BW portion having a second start frequency and a second BW size, and configures a user equipment (UE) with the source reference signal as the QCL source of the target reference signal when it is so determined.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for signaling of reception-to-transmission measurements from gNBs and user equipments (UEs) for round trip time (RTT) based positioning in wireless networks such as new radio (NR). In multi-RTT positioning, the flow of messages that are exchanged differ depending on the entity acting as the location server determining the position of the UE.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for utilizing a sidelink discovery interface to determine a location of a user equipment (UE). An example method for determining a location of a mobile device according to the disclosure includes receiving one or more reference signals transmitted via a first radio access technology, determining measurement values for the one or more reference signals, receiving a discovery signal from a station via a second radio access technology that is different from the first radio access technology, wherein the discovery signal includes and identification value associated with the station, and obtaining the location based at least in part on the measurement values and the discovery signal.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In one aspect, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of non-preferred resources to a second UE and an indication of an amount of transmit power reduction for the second UE to observe for a sidelink transmission on the non-preferred resources. In another aspect, a first UE may transmit an indication of an amount of transmit power reduction for a second UE to observe for a sidelink transmission on conflicting resources (e.g., resources reserved by the second UE and a third UE). Because the second UE may transmit on the non-preferred resources or the conflicting resources with reduced power (e.g., rather than suppressing transmissions on the non-preferred resources or the conflicting resources), the utilization of the non-preferred resources or the conflicting resources may be improved.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to intra-slot transmit beam selection and receive beam selection for sidelink are provided. A first user equipment (UE) transmits, to a second UE over a sidelink, a plurality of beam measurement signals in a plurality of beam directions during a first slot, wherein each beam measurement signal of the plurality of beam measurement signals includes at least one of sidelink control information (SCI) or a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), and wherein the plurality of beam directions includes at least two different beam directions. The first UE receives, from the second UE, an indication of a preferred beam direction of the plurality of beam directions. The first UE transmits, to the second UE over the sidelink, data in the preferred beam direction.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for directional quality of service (QoS) targets of a user equipment (UE) for directional communications to multiple UEs in multiple directions. An application layer of the UE may provide data with multiple different directional QoS targets, that may be mapped to multiple QoS data flows that are each configured with different directional QoS targets such as direction and priority associated with the direction. The data may be duplicated for each of the multiple QoS data flows having different QoS parameters, and each QoS data flow may be transmitted in a different direction using a different beam.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a serving BS of a UE may transmit a PDCCH communication to the UE. The PDCCH communication triggers a partial RACH procedure, whereby a RACH transmission is performed. In some designs, the RACH transmission is for positioning, and positioning measurements are performed at the serving BS and (optionally) at one or more non-serving BSs. In some designs, measurement data based on the positioning measurements are conveyed to a position estimation entity (e.g., LMF), which performs a positioning estimate of the UE.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to communication device and method of managing a user equipment group, first user equipment and method of providing position information from a first user equipment. A method of managing a UE group includes: determining a plurality of UEs of the UE group based on proximity of each of the plurality of UEs to at least one other UE of the plurality of UEs; and transmitting, from a communication device, to at least one of the plurality of UEs of the UE group, an indication of the UE group.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for facilitating sidelink (LS) cross-link interference (CLI) measurements within a wireless communication network. A method that may be performed by a second UE includes receiving a sidelink (SL) cross-link interference (CLI) configuration from a second base station indicating resources for performing the SL CLI measurements, performing the SL CLI measurements on the resources indicated in the SL CLI configuration, and transmitting a report to the second base station indicating the SL CLI measurements.

Abstract: A UE may be configured with at least one SRS hopping configuration associated with an SRS hopping pattern, and the UE may obtain the SRS hopping pattern based on the at least one SRS hopping configuration and at least one hopping offset. Here, the SRS hopping pattern may include one or more subsets of hopping patterns and each subset of hopping patterns including a subset of consecutive SRS transmission occasions may be associated with a hopping offset. The UE may transmit a set of SRS across a plurality of SRS transmission occasions based on the SRS hopping pattern.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first device may generate an indication of an error vector magnitude (EVM) capability of the first device, where the first device is configured to transmit a positioning reference signal. The first device may transmit the indication to a second device. Numerous other aspects are described.