Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to neural network based channel state information (CSI) feedback. In some aspects, a device may obtain a CSI instance for a channel, determine a neural network model including a CSI encoder and a CSI decoder, and train the neural network model based at least in part on encoding the CSI instance into encoded CSI, decoding the encoded CSI into decoded CSI, and computing and minimizing a loss function by comparing the CSI instance and the decoded CSI. The device may obtain one or more encoder weights and one or more decoder weights based at least in part on training the neural network model. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes identifying, by a first node configured for operation in a synchronous communication mode, a current synchronization boundary according to a common clock of the synchronous communication mode. The method further includes performing, by the first node, a common clock-triggered (CCT) listen before talk (LBT) procedure of a shared communication channel during a periodic quiet interval at the current synchronization boundary. The method further includes establishing, by the first node, in response to success of the CCT LBT procedure, a channel occupancy time (COT) configured to end at a subsequent synchronization boundary and transmitting, by the first node, data on the shared communication channel during the COT.

Abstract: Various aspects of utilizing narrowband internet of things (NB IOT) communication are still under development. According to an aspect of the disclosure, the apparatus may be a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication via narrowband internet of things (NB IOT) in an unlicensed spectrum using frequency hopping and digital modulation. The UE performs a synchronization with a base station via at least one of a licensed spectrum or the unlicensed spectrum. The UE communicates with the base station based on the synchronization.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to uplink communications with transmission on-off patterns and frequency-hopping in a shared radio frequency band are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a configuration indicating a plurality of uplink (UL) transmission on-off patterns that are offset from each other in time. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device in an unlicensed band, a first UL communication signal based on a first UL transmission on-off pattern of the plurality of UL transmission on-off patterns.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method includes receiving a transmission from a first wireless device at a second wireless device, the transmission including a first coexistence preamble configured to reserve a channel of a shared radio frequency band for a first period of time, a first segment, and a second segment, where the first coexistence preamble comprises an initial channel reservation sequence and a data field indicating information about the first period of time; and transmitting, during a gap period between the first segment and the second segment, a receiver protection signal from the second wireless device, the receiver protection signal including a second coexistence preamble configured to reserve the channel of the shared radio frequency band for a second period of time associated with the second transmission segment.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a node may identify a listen-before-talk (LBT) success time at which an LBT procedure, performed by the node, succeeds; determine a lag between the LBT success time and a most recent synchronization reference boundary that occurred prior to the LBT success time; and determine a maximum channel occupancy time for transmissions on an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band based at least in part on comparing the lag and a threshold. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a node may receive a configuration associated with measuring an energy level of a first frequency channel of an unlicensed radio frequency band, wherein the configuration indicates a set of measurement occasions during which the energy level is to be measured on the first frequency channel; measure the energy level on the first frequency channel in a first measurement occasion, of the set of measurement occasions, according to the configuration, and operate in association with a second frequency channel of the unlicensed radio frequency band based at least in part on measuring the energy level on the first frequency channel, wherein the second frequency channel is paired with the first frequency channel for the unlicensed radio frequency band. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for reference signal transmissions and transmit power ratio determination in non-orthogonal transmissions. A traffic-to-pilot power ratio (TPR) may be determined for a base layer for a non-orthogonal channel and another TPR may be determined for an enhancement layer for the non-orthogonal channel. Reference signal transmissions may be transmitted by a base station at a reference signal transmission power, and a user equipment (UE) may estimate channel quality for the base layer or the enhancement layer based at least in part on an energy level of the received reference signal and one or more of the first TPR or the second TPR. A base station may transmit TPR signaling that may indicate one or more TPR values for one or both of the base layer or enhancement layer.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that an availability condition is satisfied, wherein the availability condition relates to an availability of the UE for sidelink communication; identify future available information (FAI) that indicates at least one of a time domain availability of the UE for sidelink communication or a frequency domain availability of the UE for sidelink communication; and transmit the FAI based at least in part on determining that the availability condition is satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a multiple listen-before-talk (LBT) bandwidths, where each LBT bandwidth is associated with one or more downlink control channel candidates of a search space for a control resource set. The UE may monitor the LBT bandwidths during a wakeup signal period for a wakeup signal from the base station. The UE may be configured with a total number of blind hypotheses in the set of blind hypotheses which is equal to or greater than a total number of LBT bandwidths. The UE may determine whether to wake up and monitor an on duration of a discontinuous reception cycle based on detection of the wakeup signal.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to autonomous sidelink communication are provided. A first user equipment (UE) communicates, in a first subband of a plurality of subbands within a shared radio frequency band during a first time period, first sidelink control information (SCI) associated with a second subband of the plurality of subbands. The first UE communicates, with the second UE, first sidelink data in the second subband during the first time period based on the first SCI. The first UE communicates, with the second UE in the first subband during a second time period, second SCI associated with a third subband of the plurality of subbands, the third subband being different from the second subband based on a frequency hopping pattern. The first UE communicates, with the second UE, second sidelink data in the third subband during the second time period based on the second SCI.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may perform a Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) procedure to obtain access to a wireless communication channel. The base station may then determine a pattern of synchronization signal block (SSB) transmissions based on an outcome of the LBT procedure and transmit the pattern of SSB transmissions after obtaining access to the wireless communication channel. The outcome of the LBT procedure may include obtaining access to the wireless communication channel after a missed opportunity for at least one SSB transmission in a discovery reference signal (DRS) measurement timing configuration (DMTC) window. A user equipment (UE) may determine system timing based on a received SSB transmission.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a report indicating that a cooperative reception group including the UE and one or more other UEs connected to the UE over an out-of-band link supports one or more downlink transmit beamforming techniques. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the one or more downlink transmit beamforming techniques supported by the cooperative reception group, a downlink transmit precoder associated with relaxed beamforming nulling. The UE may decode a downlink transmission received from the base station based at least in part on the downlink transmit precoder and one or more decoded bits received from the one or more other UEs in the cooperative reception group. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for frame-based initiator device operations. A wireless device may be operating within a frame-based equipment communications system, where a frame may include a channel occupancy time period and a minimum idle period. An initiating device may be configured to initiate autonomous uplink communications during the channel occupancy time period of its frame, while the device may not initiate communications during an idle period of its frame. In some cases, a frame-based equipment communications system may include more than one initiating device, where the idle periods for different initiating devices may occur at different times. In some cases, the initiating device may be configured to initiate communications during the idle period for another initiating device. This may allow the wireless system to decrease system overhead associated with a minimum idle period per frame.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for design of synchronization signals for narrowband operation, which can be used for stand-alone/in-band/guard-band deployment. An example method is provided for operations which may be performed by a base station (BS). The example method generally includes generating a primary synchronization signal (PSS) utilizing a first code sequence and a cover code applied to the first code sequence over a first number of symbols within one or more subframes, generating a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) based on a second code sequence over a second number of symbols within one or more subframes, and transmitting the PSS and the SSS in the first and second subframes to a first type of a user equipment (UE) that communicates on one or more narrowband regions of wider system bandwidth.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to providing frequency diversity for communications in an unlicensed spectrum are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, an opportunistic frequency-switching configuration for a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The first frequency band and the second frequency band are shared by a first network operating entity and a second network operating entity. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a first communication signal in a first frequency band based on the opportunistic frequency-switching configuration. The first wireless communication device switches from the first frequency band to a second frequency band based on the opportunistic frequency-switching configuration.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provided techniques that for wireless communications by a base station (BS). An exemplary method, performed by a base station, generally includes identifying an operating state of a user equipment that communicates with the BS in at least one narrowband region, determining, based on the operating state, one or more operating parameters of a configurable measurement procedure whereby the user equipment (UE) tunes away from the narrowband region to measure signals transmitted from other BSs, and configuring the UE to perform the measurement procedure in accordance with the determined operating parameters.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to autonomous sidelink communication in a shared radio frequency band (e.g., in a shared spectrum or an unlicensed spectrum) are provided. A first user equipment (UE) performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) in a shared radio frequency band during at least a portion of a first sidelink frame. The first UE determines a channel occupancy time (COT) in the shared radio frequency band based on the LBT. A beginning of the COT is within the first sidelink frame and offset from a boundary of the first sidelink frame. The COT includes one or more sidelink frames subsequent to the first sidelink frame. The first UE transmits, in the shared radio frequency band, a COT indication signal at the beginning of the COT within the first sidelink frame. The COT indication signal includes COT sharing information for UEs to share the one or more sidelink frames.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to autonomous sidelink communication in a radio frequency band (e.g., in a shared spectrum or an unlicensed spectrum) shared by multiple network operating entities are provided. A first user equipment (UE) performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) in a shared radio frequency band based on a first starting point of a plurality of starting points within an LBT gap duration. The first UE transmits, to a second UE, a first sidelink communication in the shared radio frequency band based on the LBT, the first sidelink communication including first sidelink control information (SCI) and first sidelink data.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device (base station or UE) may receive an indication of a listen before talk (LBT) gap for sharing a channel occupancy time (COT), the COT being acquired by another wireless device (base station or UE), and detect whether a slot within the COT is occupied by the other wireless device, the slot occurring prior to the LBT gap. The wireless device may also, responsive to detecting that the slot is occupied by the other wireless device, preform an LBT procedure during the LBT gap, and, responsive to a successful LBT procedure, transmit a signal to the other wireless device within the COT.