Qualcomm Incorporated

Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Vid Scale, Inc.

Other

Drnc Holdings, Inc.

Integrated Patent Holdings, Inc.

Anantharaman Balasubramanian

Kapil Gulati

Shuanshuan Wu

Junyi Li

Sudhir Kumar Baghel

Ravikumar V Pragada

Sourjya Dutta

Preeti Kumari

Navid Abedini

Gabi Sarkis

Hong Cheng

Chang-Sik Choi

Shailesh Patil

Nagi Jayaraman Mahalingam

Liangping Ma

Gene Wesley Marsh

Tanbir Haque

Sony Akkarakaran

Tien Viet Nguyen

Marian Rudolf

Dan Vassilovski

Gregory S Sternberg

Patrick Cabrol

Hussain Elkotby

Saadallah Kassir

Wanshi Chen

Mihaela C Beluri

Samian Kaur

Yuriy Reznik

Weimin Liu

Himaja Kesavareddigari

Kyle Chi Guan

Taesang Yoo

Yugeswar Deenoo

Dan Zhang

Ralph Neff

Louis Joseph Kerofsky

Eduardo Asbun

Avi Rapaport

Mahmoud Ashour

Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni

Alpaslan Demir

Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar

Jubin Jose

Frank La Sita

Urs Niesen

Faris Alfarhan

Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian

Dirk Trossen

William E Lawton

Stelios Stefanatos

Seyedkianoush Hosseini

Wooseok Nam

Yan Ye

Ghyslain Pelletier

Qing Li

Benoit Pelletier

John Edward Smee

Ariela Zeira

Gokul Sridharan

Soo Bum Lee

Thomas Stockhammer

Prashanth Haridas Hande

Karthika Paladugu

Dimitrios Karampatsis

Yong He

Imed Bouazizi

Robert A DiFazio

Cheol Hee Park

Martin Renschler

Hui Guo

Jun Xu

Muhammad U Fazili

James Francis Geekie

Zhifeng Chen

Michel Roy

Farrukh Rashid

Dylan James Watts

Aria Hasanzadezonuzy

Libin Liu

Shijun Wu

Aspects present herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may receive, from a base station, a security mode command message associated with secure sidelink communication with at least one other UE. The apparatus may also identify, based on the security mode command message, at least one of a RRC encryption key or a user plane encryption key. Additionally, the apparatus may receive, from the base station, an indication of at least one of a common base key or the RRC encryption key. The apparatus may also identify a physical layer sidelink encryption key based on at least one of the common base key or the RRC encryption key, the physical layer sidelink encryption key being associated with the secure sidelink communication with the at least one other UE.

Secure sidelink communication

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may receive, from one or more user equipments (UEs), feedback information associated with a distributed sensing procedure. The network node may select, based at least in part on the feedback information, a set of UEs to be included in the distributed sensing procedure. The network node may transmit, to the set of UEs, an indication of configuration parameters associated with the distributed sensing procedure. Numerous other aspects are described.

Distributed sensing with low-resolution analog-to-digital converters

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain a common key. The UE may communicate with one or more other UEs using a lower layer groupcast key that is based at least in part on the common key, a parameter, and at least one of a group identifier or a destination identifier. Numerous other aspects are described.

Lower layer security for groupcast communication

Wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) may include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The WTRUs/UAVs may cooperate to exchange channel busy ratio (CBR) and/or CBR statistics of one or more (e.g., all) the carriers that the WTRUs/UAVs monitors with each other for carrier selection/carrier reselection. A network may provide one or more inputs on carrier selection. For example, a network may provide one or more inputs on carrier selection based on the congestion that the network infers (e.g., through the CBR measurements reported by the WTRUs/UAVs and/or through its own measurements). MAC/PHY layers may be configured to perform transmit adaptation during PDCP packet duplication. For example, the carrier aggregation capability of receivers may be considered to adapt the number of transmissions per carrier. Based on the carrier aggregation capability of the receivers, the number of transmissions at one or more (e.g., every) carriers may be optimized jointly across carriers.

Carrier aggregation for wireless transmit/receive unit

Method, apparatus and systems are disclosed. In one representative embodiment, a method may be implemented by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for communication via a network access point (NAP). The method may include the WTRU receiving from the NAP a set of preambles and corresponding propagation delay related thresholds and determining propagation delay related information associated with a distance between the WTRU and the NAP or a location in a coverage of the NAP. The method may further include selecting a subset of preambles from the set of preambles based on the determined propagation delay related information, randomly selecting a preamble from the selected subset of preambles, and sending the randomly selected preamble to the NAP.

Methods, apparatus, systems and procedures for distance dependent random access channel (RACH) preamble selection in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs)

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support multiple-transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) based positioning. In some aspects, a method includes transmitting, by a first user equipment (UE) including a first set of transmission and reception points (TRPs), a first request for a first sidelink (SL) positioning session. The first request indicates a multi-TRP positioning session is enabled. The method also includes receiving, from a second UE including a second set of TRPs, a first response based on the first request. The first response indicates a number of TRPs of the second set of TRPs available for the first SL positioning session. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Multi-transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) based positioning

An example device for exchanging media data via a network includes a memory configured to store media data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: retrieve data representative of an expected time between a first frame of media data and a second frame of the media data from a media application; receive the first frame of the media data at a first time; wait to process the second frame of the media data until a second time that is equal to or greater than the first time plus the expected time; and process the second frame of the media data at the second time.

Signaling media timing information from a media application to a network element

A method of assisting joint network entity/user equipment and user equipment/user equipment (NE/UE-and-UE/UE) ranging includes: transmitting, from a first UE to a network entity, a capability indication that indicates a capability of the first UE to serve as an anchor UE for joint NE/UE-and-UE/UE ranging; obtaining, at the first UE, a location of the first UE; transmitting, from the first UE, the location of the first UE; transmitting, from the first UE to the network entity, at least one indication that a second UE is in a line of sight of the first UE or that the second UE is in close proximity to the first UE; and transmitting, from the first UE, at least one of a first positioning reference signal to the second UE, or a measurement report indicating a measurement of a second positioning reference signal received by the first UE from the second UE.

Joint network entity/user equipment-and-user equipment/user equipment ranging

Techniques for using optical sensing by wireless network nodes to assist with positioning of user equipment (UE) are provided. In some embodiments, such techniques may include sending first configuration information to the UE, the first configuration information indicative of how optical sensory data is to be obtained with the UE; receiving the optical sensory data from the UE; and based at least on the optical sensory data received from the UE, determining angular information regarding wireless transmissions between at least one wireless network node and the UE.

Positioning and beam alignment based on optical sensing

Aspects are provided which allow a UE to achieve sidelink parameter coordination through various signaling in clustered FL or peer-to-peer FL. The UE provides a first ML model information update and a measurement associated with the update. The UE obtains an aggregated ML model information update aggregating the first update with a second ML model information update of either a first network node in a FL cluster including the UE or a second network node in a second FL cluster. The UE provides a sidelink communication parameter in SCI to a network node, which parameter is an output of an ML model associated with the aggregated ML model information update. As a result, UEs may derive common SCI parameters from their updated ML models to apply in sidelink communications, thereby leading to maximized packet reception rate, maximized throughput, or minimized latency in communication.

Methods for enhanced sidelink communications with clustered or peer-to-peer federated learning

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive, from a first network entity, data to be relayed to a second network entity. The mobile station may transmit the data to the second network entity. The mobile station may receive, from the second network entity, a digitally signed acknowledgement of reception of the data. The mobile station may transmit the digitally signed acknowledgement to the first network entity. Numerous other aspects are described.

Mobile station relaying verification

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for using situational information to aid in beam-based communications between a first user equipment (UE) and a network entity. The first UE may collect data at one or more sensors and may generate the situational information using the collected data. The first UE may then use the situational information in a beam selection procedure to identify suitable candidate beams for communicating with the network entity. The first UE may also transmit the situational information to the network entity in a beam management report, and the network entity may use the situational information to identify suitable candidate beams for communicating with the first UE. In some cases, the network entity may also use the situational information to identify suitable candidate beams for communicating with a second UE associated with the first UE.

Perception-aided beam-based communications

Aspects relate to mechanisms for a wireless communication device to generate a superposition transmission of a sidelink signal to be transmitted to at least one receiving wireless communication device and an uplink signal to be transmitted to a base station. The wireless communication device may transmit the superposition transmission on resources allocated by the base station on a common carrier utilized for both sidelink and uplink transmissions. The superposition transmission includes a base layer corresponding to the uplink signal and an enhanced layer corresponding to the sidelink signal. The wireless communication device may further generate and transmit interference assistance information to the receiving wireless communication device for use by the receiving wireless communication device in canceling the base layer from the superposition transmission.

Superposition transmission of sidelink and uplink

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a central network node, configuration information for reporting UE positioning information or distributed network node positioning information. The UE may identify one or more distributed network nodes based at least in part on respective connections between the one or more distributed network nodes and the UE or based at least in part on measurement information. The UE may obtain one or more encrypted identifiers respectively associated with the one or more distributed network nodes. The UE may transmit, to the central network node, the one or more encrypted identifiers in accordance with the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.

User equipment positioning

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) system may receive configuration information from an assisting node, such as a roadside unit (RSU), for calculating location information for a target UE in the V2X system. The assisting node may reflect one or more radar signals from the UE towards the target, and from the target back towards the UE according to the configuration information. That is, the assisting node may modify one or more waveform parameters of the reflection according to the configuration information. The UE may calculate location information for the target based on the reflection, such as by classifying the target as non-line-of-sight (NLOS) based on modified waveform parameters, location information of the assisting node, or both.

Assisting node radar assistance

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