Qualcomm Incorporated

University of Missouri

National Science Foundation

Weimin Duan

Alexandros Manolakos

Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli

Huilin Xu

Qiang Wu

Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar

Jun Ma

Lianghai Ji

Hyojin Lee

Karthik Anantha Swamy

Wanshi Chen

Seyong Park

Mehmet Izzet Gurelli

Tingfang Ji

Liangping Ma

Jay Kumar Sundararajan

Naga Bhushan

Mohamad Sayed Hassan

Sony Akkarakaran

June Namgoong

Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni

Jingchao Bao

Hung Dinh Ly

Jing Lei

Hwan Joon Kwon

Runxin Wang

Gokul Sridharan

Yu Zhang

Seyedkianoush Hosseini

Taesang Yoo

Joseph Binamira Soriaga

Renqiu Wang

Tao Luo

Juan Montojo

Yi Huang

Peter Pui Lok Ang

Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug

Yuwei Ren

Yuxiang Peng

Fei Huang

Chengshan Xiao

Yahong Rosa Zheng

Peter S Gaal

Gavin Bernard Horn

Jing Jiang

Wei Jennifer Yang

Linhai He

Sven Fischer

Aziz Gholmieh

Soo Bum Lee

Danlu Zhang

Wei Yang

Xiaoxin Zhang

Bo Chen

Changhwan Park

Ruifeng Ma

Yan Wang

Ning Luo

Bala Ramasamy

Charles Edward Wheatley

Alexander Dorosenco

Kangqi Liu

Venkatraman Rajagopalan

Sooryanarayanan Gopalakrishnan

Onur Senel

Nitzan OFer

In an aspect, a relay UE transmits sidelink reference signals for positioning (SL-RS-P) off first and second reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The target UE measures the reflected SL-RS-Ps. In an aspect, the SL-RS-Ps may be associated with configurations that are configured by a base station. In an aspect, a position estimation entity may obtain measurement information associated with the reflected SL-RS-Ps and determine a position estimate of the target UE based at least in part upon the measurement information.

Sidelink reference signal for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided positioning

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network entity may encode first information using keying modulation. The first network entity may encode second information using frequency modulated continuous waveform (FMCW) modulation. The first network entity may transmit a communication that includes a first layer indicating the first information and a second layer indicating the second information. Numerous other aspects are described.

Layered modulation communication

An apparatus comprises: an interface; a memory; and a processor, communicatively coupled to the interface and the memory, configured to: instruct a node to send a first cellular reference signal to a target UE (user equipment) and to another UE, the node being a cellular-communication node; instruct, via the interface, the target UE to report to the node a first time difference, the first time difference being a first time amount between receipt of the first cellular reference signal by the target UE and transmission of a second cellular reference signal by the target UE; and instruct, via the interface, the other UE to report a second time difference, the second time difference being a second time amount between receipt of the first cellular reference signal by the other UE and receipt of the second cellular reference signal, in a cross-link interference resource, by the other UE.

RTT-based positioning with CLI measurement

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a broadcast message via a cell associated with a network entity. The broadcast message may include an indication that the cell supports a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT. In some examples, the first RAT may be associated with a first subcarrier spacing (SCS) and the second RAT may be associated with a second SCS. The UE may perform measurements of one or more reference signals associated with the first RAT based on the indication. In some examples, the one or more reference signals may be multiplexed with physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) data. The UE may transmit a channel feedback report to the network entity based on performing measurements of the one or more reference signals, and may demodulate the PDSCH data using the first SCS and the second SCS.

Techniques for dynamic spectrum sharing between radio access technologies

Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to perform positioning using virtual anchors and/or positioning reference units. In one aspect, a UE transmits a request for assistance data for performing UE-based positioning, where the request includes at least one of location information of the UE or a list of anchors observed by the UE. The UE receives the assistance data for the UE-based positioning, where the assistance data includes a list of virtual anchors and a list of positioning reference units (PRUs) that includes a set of virtual PRUs (VPRUs), where the list of virtual anchors and the list of PRUs are selected based on at least one of the location information of the UE or the list of anchors observed by the UE. The UE performs the UE-based positioning using at least one virtual anchor and at least one VPRU in the assistance data.

Virtual positioning reference unit for positioning

Reference signals used in location estimation of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless data network can be secured against a man-in-the-middle attack by a transmitting device withholding the conveyance of transmission parameters for decoding portions of a reference signal until after the portions are transmitted. Thus, receiving devices can buffer received signals and, after receiving the transmission parameters, process the buffered signals. To further prevent an attacker device from attacking future reference signals, transmission parameters can be nondeterministic such that an attacker device obtaining a parameter at a certain period of time is unable to use the decoded parameter predict or determine subsequent transmission parameters.

Positioning reference signal (PRS) securitization in user equipment (UE) positioning

Disclosed are techniques for wireless sensing. In an aspect, a method for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sensing performed by a base station (BS) includes configuring one or more reciprocal RIS beam pairs for sensing, wherein each of the one or more reciprocal RIS beam pairs comprises a downlink (DL) beam having a DL angle of departure (DL AoD) from a RIS controlled by a first set of control voltages and an uplink (UL) beam having an UL AoD from the RIS controlled by a second set of control voltages. The BS may send, to the RIS, information identifying the one or more reciprocal RIS beam pairs. The BS may perform monostatic sensing using at least one of the one or more reciprocal RIS beam pairs.

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sensing

Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for wireless communications. For example, an example of a process includes receiving a signal comprising a slot including at least one shared signal resource. The process further includes determining whether the slot is allocated for sensing and communications or is allocated for communications. The process further includes determining whether to demodulate the at least one shared signal resource using at least one sensing reference signal (RS) resource or at least one communication RS based whether the slot is allocated for sensing and communications or is allocated for communications.

Reference signals for joint communication and sensing

In an aspect, a wireless entity may transmit a first indication of one or more Doppler error group (DEG) identifiers (IDs) corresponding to one or more DEGs supported by the wireless entity, where each of the one or more DEGs is associated with a hardware configuration or an operational state of the wireless entity. The wireless entity may transmit a first set of measurements associated with a DEG ID of the one or more DEG IDs.

Doppler error groups for cellular-based radio frequency sensing

In an aspect, a position estimation entity may obtain a first differential round trip time (RTT) measurement based on a first RTT measurement between a user equipment (UE) and a first wireless node and a second RTT measurement between the UE and a second wireless node, may obtain a second differential RTT measurement based on a third RTT measurement between a third wireless node and the first wireless node and a fourth RTT measurement between the third wireless node and the second wireless node, and may determine a positioning estimate of the UE based at least in part on the first differential RTT measurement and the second differential RTT measurement.

Double-differential round trip time measurement

Aspects presented herein may improve the performance and accuracy of a UE positioning based on RIS, such as when the RIS has a limited number of control voltage sets available. In one aspect, a UE obtains an indication of beam pattern information for a set of DL beams for a network entity, where the set of DL beams is associated with an RIS. The UE adjusts a first transmission angle for a set of UL beams based on the beam pattern information and measurement for the set of DL beams, where the first transmission angle for the set of UL beams is adjusted to proximately align with a second transmission angle of the set of DL beams from the RIS. The UE transmits, via the RIS, the set of UL beams to the network entity based on the adjusted first transmission angle.

Beam adaptation for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided UE positioning

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, an indication of a subset of tracking reference signal (TRS) resource sets from a plurality of TRS resource sets. The UE may receive, from the network node, a TRS availability indication bitmap that indicates an availability of a TRS associated with the subset of TRS resource sets. The UE may determine that the TRS is available based at least in part on the TRS availability indication bitmap. The UE may receive, from the network node, the TRS based at least in part on the TRS availability indication bitmap indicating that the TRS is available. Numerous other aspects are described.

Indicating an availability of a tracking reference signal (TRS) associated with a subset of TRS resource sets

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a first network node, a first indication of satellite assistance information that is associated with a second network node, a second indication of first timing information that is associated with the satellite assistance information, and a third indication of second timing information that is associated with the satellite assistance information. The UE may transmit an uplink signal to the second network node based at least in part on validating the satellite assistance information using the second timing information. Numerous other aspects are described.

Mobility management in a non-terrestrial network

Techniques are disclosed for determining an object's location by using a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) to aid in RF sensing. Radar techniques can be used in which one or more base stations act as a transmitter and a receiving device acts as a receiver in a bistatic or multi-static radar configuration where an RIS directs signals transmitted by the one or more base stations to the receiving device. By comparing the time a line-of-sight (LOS) signal (redirected to the receiving device by the RIS) is received by the receiving device with that of an echo signal (redirected to the receiving device by the RIS) from a reflection of an RF signal from the object, a position of the object can be determined. Depending on desired functionality, this position can be determined by the receiving device or by a location server or other network entity.

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided UE passive RF sensing

In a wireless communication system, cross-link interference (CLI) measurements are used for received signal strength indicator (RSSI) based positioning. A first user equipment (UE) receives from a base station, a first message comprising a cross-link interference (CLI) configuration; performs one or more CLI measurements associated with an uplink transmission of a second UE based on the CLI configuration; receives a second message comprising an uplink transmission power measurement of the second UE; determines a pathloss associated with the second UE based on the one or more CLI measurements and the uplink transmission power measurement; and determines a range between a location of the first UE and a location of the second UE based on the pathloss.

Cross-link interference (CLI) measurements for received signal strength indicator (RSSI) based positioning

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