Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for radio frequency (RF) beamforming using a plurality of differently skewed cylindrical lenses. In one example, an apparatus for wireless communication may include a plurality of cylindrical lenses, each respective cylindrical lens of the plurality of cylindrical lenses having a respective first surface and a respective second surface opposite to the respective first surface. Each respective cylindrical lens can include a power direction corresponding to a curvature of each respective first surface and a non-power direction that is orthogonal to the power direction. The apparatus can further include at least one linear antenna array disposed proximate to each respective second surface of each respective cylindrical lens, the at least one linear antenna array including a plurality of antenna array elements.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some implementations, a wireless communications network may support per-beam synchronization signal block (SSB) periodicity configurations. A network entity may transmit, using a first beam, a first SSB associated with a cell supported by the network entity. The first SSB may include a first broadcast channel that indicates a first periodicity for transmission of the first SSB associated using the first beam. In addition, the network entity may transmit, using a second beam, a second SSB associated with the cell supported by the network entity. The second SSB may include a second broadcast channel that indicates a second periodicity for transmission of the second SSB associated with the cell using the second beam. In such cases, the second periodicity may be different from the first periodicity.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device, such as a user equipment (UE) or base station, may receive, at a first antenna of a first antenna array, a first set of reference signals. The first device may measure the phase for each of the reference signals and estimate a linear offset between the first antenna array and a second antenna array of a second device that transmitted the reference signals. The first device may adjust an alignment of the first antenna array according to the estimated linear offset. The first device may receive a second set of reference signals, measure the phase for each of the reference signals, and estimate one or more rotational offsets between the first antenna array and the second antenna array. The first device may adjust the alignment of the first antenna array based on the one or more rotational offsets.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless networks may maintain up-to-date location information for the UE by periodically determining the location the UE using a low power transponding mechanism while the UE is in an inactive state. The UE may monitor a first beam to receive one or more transponder search signals during one or more transponder occasions, and between paging attempts from one or more of the base stations of the network. The UE may receive the one or more transponder search signals, and may transmit a transponder response message to a base station including a UE identifier associated with the inactive state. The base station may receive the transponder response message, and may conduct various location measurements for the UE using the transponder response.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a power harvesting protocol at a network entity and a channel engineering device (CED) of a wireless communication network. In some aspects, the network entity and the CED may implement a power harvesting protocol that includes power harvesting capabilities and configuration signaling to support power harvesting at the CED. The CED may provide a power harvesting capabilities message to the network entity that includes a parameter that indicates capabilities for power harvesting at the CED. The network entity may respond with a power harvesting configuration message to configure the CED for power harvesting. After configuration of the CED, the network entity may transmit dedicated and non-dedicated (or opportunistic) power harvesting signals to the CED for use by the CED for power harvesting.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node may transmit a first signal using a first antenna of the antenna array, the antenna array having a plurality of antennas that are arranged along a curved structure, wherein the curved structure is convex in a direction opposite a transmission direction, and wherein the first antenna is located at a first position on the curved structure so that the first signal has a first aperture with respect to the lens. The first network node may transmit a second signal using a second antenna of the plurality of antennas, wherein the second antenna is located at a second position on the curved structure so that the second signal has a second aperture with respect to the lens. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communications device may transmit a first signal. The first signal may be transmitted from a first antenna array of the communications device through a lens of the communications device in a direction. An energy of a portion of the first signal may be below a threshold based on a position of a second antenna array of the communications device. The portion of the first signal may correspond to a portion of a reflection of the first signal that overlaps with the position of the second antenna array. The communications device may concurrently receive, at the second antenna array, a second signal originating from another direction, where the second signal may be focused in the direction of the second antenna array based on the lens.

Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to receiving a configuration including one or more parameters related to compressing feedback values for multiple code blocks, performing, using a compression method and an associated codebook that are selected using the one or more parameters, a compression of multiple feedback values for a set of code blocks received from a network device into a compressed feedback value, and transmitting, to the network device and using the compressed feedback value, compressed feedback for the set of code blocks.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for dedicated pilot signals associated with radio frequency impairment compensation. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) and a network entity may support a signaling mechanism according to which the UE may measure and report, to the network entity, an imbalance between an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature (Q) component of a modulated signal. For example, the UE may request the network entity to transmit an out-of-band pilot signal to enable frequency domain residual side band (FDRSB) estimation at the UE and the UE may transmit measurement information associated with the IQ imbalance or the FDRSB estimation to the network entity. The network entity may receive the measurement information and compensate or correct signaling in accordance with the received measurement information.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first device may transmit an indication of a first set of signal strength metrics for signal strengths of transmit beams of a second device using receive beams of the first device and a second set of signal strength metrics for signal strengths of transmit beams of the first device using the receive beams of the first device. The first device may determine, for one or more signal strength metrics in the first set of signal strength metrics, the second set of signal strength metrics, or both, a change in the corresponding signal strength. The first device may transmit, based at least in part on the determining, an indication of the change in the corresponding signal strength for each of the one or more signal strength metrics.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For instance, the described techniques support resource offset mapping for multiplexing. Resource offset mapping may refer to the mapping of frequency-domain symbols to different subsets of resources that are offset from each other or separated by gaps. For instance, a first wireless device may map a first set of frequency-domain symbols to a first subset of subcarriers and a second set of frequency-domain symbols to a second subset of subcarriers. A lowest subcarrier of the second subset of subcarriers may be separated by an offset or a gap from a highest subcarrier of the first subset of subcarriers. As a result, at least some distortion experienced on subcarriers in the gap may not spread to other subcarriers, and the reliability and throughput of communications between the first wireless device and a second wireless device may improve.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive one or more reference signals (RSs) via a beam of a first frequency range, the beam of the first frequency range being associated with a set of beams of a second frequency range. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the one or more RSs, beam management for communication via the second frequency range. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications systems may support rotational alignment of a first antenna panel of a first device and a second antenna panel of a second device. The first and second devices may exchange signaling that indicates a panel rotation capability and a panel rotation procedure configuration based on the panel rotation capability. The second device may transmit a reference signal from a central antenna element of the second antenna panel based on the configuration. The first device may receive the reference signal via two antenna elements of the first antenna panel and may adjust an angular rotation of the first antenna panel based on the reference signal to modify a respective distance between each of the two antenna elements of the first antenna panel relative to the central antenna element of the second antenna panel.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment (UE) may receive reference signals for a UE beam measurement procedure for measuring a set of network transmit beams corresponding to the set of reference signals. The UE may transmit a measurement report indicating measurements of the set of reference signals based on the UE beam measurement procedure, where the measurement report further includes an indication of one or more candidate network transmit beams that are additional to the set of network transmit beams and that are within an angular offset threshold from one or more network transmit beams of the set of network transmit beams. In response to transmitting the measurement report, the UE may receive a message indicating a configuration for communications with the network entity.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish a connection with a network node using a beam. The UE may receive, based at least in part on establishing the connection using the beam, an indication that the network node will refrain from transmission of synchronization signal block (SSB) signaling during a portion of an SSB occasion associated with the beam. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay may receive, from a network node and via a network node beam, a network node synchronization signal block (SSB). The relay may transmit, to a user equipment (UE) and via a relay beam, a relay SSB that is based at least in part on the network node SSB. The relay may receive, from the UE and via the relay beam, a preamble during a first random access channel (RACH) occasion that is associated with the relay SSB. The relay may transmit, to the network node and via the network node beam, the preamble during a second RACH occasion that is associated with the network node SSB. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Aspects relate to assisted beam management between frequency bands that each utilize spatially directional beams. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive a plurality of first transmit beams on each of a plurality of first receive beams within a first frequency band to select at least one first beam pair link in the first frequency band. The UE may then receive a plurality of second transmit beams on each of a plurality of second receive beams within a second frequency band different than the first frequency band to select a second beam pair link in the second frequency band on which to communicate with a transmission and reception point. Each of the second transmit or receive beams has a respective spatial direction within a spatial direction of at least one of the first transmit or receive beams of the first beam pair links.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, a slot based at least in part on a transmit beam, wherein the slot is associated with a plurality of slot repetitions using different transmit beams. The UE may transmit, to the network node in the slot and based at least in part on a metric associated with a beam pair satisfying a threshold, feedback to early terminate remaining slot repetitions of the plurality of slot repetitions using the different transmit beams. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect, via a camera of the UE, an optical beacon emitted from a network node, wherein the optical beacon is associated with a modulation with a repeated pattern that indicates an optical cell identifier associated with the network node. The UE may determine the optical cell identifier associated with the network node based at least in part on the optical beacon. The UE may communicate with the network node based at least in part on a beam association between the UE and the network node, wherein the beam association is based at least in part on the optical cell identifier associated with the network node. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for orbital angular moment capability in millimeter wave and higher frequency bands. An example method for wireless communication at a first communication device includes transmitting, to a second communication device, OAM capability information indicating a capability to receive an OAM waveform. Additionally, the example method includes receiving one or more OAM transmissions from the second communication device, the one or more OAM transmissions based on the OAM capability information.