Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a subcarrier spacing (SCS) for communications in a transmission time interval (TTI), such as a half-subframe, including multiple symbols, corresponding cyclic prefixes, and a padding duration which is at least as long as a symbol duration. The UE may receive a configuration for the padding duration, indicating that at least a portion of the padding duration is reallocated for a reference signal that indicates waveform parameters for one or more symbols of the TTI after the padding duration. The UE may receive the reference signal indicating the waveform parameters during the portion of the padding duration and communicate during the one or more symbols of the TTI according to the waveform parameters.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first wireless device may establish a sidelink communications link with a second wireless device. The first wireless device may transmit, to the second wireless device, an indication of a capability to support a configuration for phase continuity between multiple physical channel transmissions of the sidelink communication link. The first wireless device may transmit one or more physical channel transmissions, which each may be associated with a set of one or more demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) to the second wireless device in accordance with the indicated configuration for phase continuity between the physical channel transmissions. The second wireless device may determine channel parameters associated with the one or more physical channel transmissions based on a joint channel estimation associated with the one or more sets of DMRSs.

The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first node determines a first resource set and a first resource set group out of M resource sets; monitors a first-type channel in the first resource set group in a first time window. Any two of the M resource sets are overlapped in time domain, and the first resource set group comprises the first resource set; any of the M resource sets is connected to one or two spatial states; a reference resource set is any of the M resource sets different from the first resource set; whether the reference resource set satisfies a first condition is used to determine whether the reference resource set belongs to the first resource set group. The above method avoids the performance loss incurred by UE's unnecessary dropping the monitoring on some PDCCH candidates.

A method for a user equipment (UE) of determining a tracking reference signal (TRS) resource set availability is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a TRS configuration that indicates one or more TRS resource sets for the UE to monitor reference signals; determining whether a Layer 1 (L1)-based availability indication for the one or more TRS resource sets is received from the BS; and determining the one or more TRS resource sets are unavailable when the UE determines that the L1-based availability indication has not been received from the BS.

An apparatus in a wireless communication system is configured to perform a method for directional beam nulling of SRS-based data beams. A base station (BS) includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a data beam to at least one user equipment (UE). The processor is also configured to configure the data beam to have a null area in a direction of a satellite earth station (ES), the null area defining a space within a coverage area of the data beam in which a signal from the data beam is suppressed. The data beam is configured by: generating one or more steering vectors to the ES; obtaining a UE channel matrix via a sounding reference signal (SRS) and determining a rank value; and generating a beamforming precoder configured to directional null the data beam in the direction of the ES.

A method by a UE for handling PDSCH reception includes receiving, from a BS, a first PDSCH configuration in a CFR configuration for a multicast PDSCH, a second PDSCH configuration in a BWP configuration for a unicast PDSCH, and first DCI scheduling the multicast PDSCH, the first PDSCH configuration including a first aperiodic resource set configuration, the second PDSCH configuration including a resource configuration and a second aperiodic resource set configuration, the resource configuration for configuring one or more ZP CSI-RS resources, and the first DCI including a first field for triggering a first aperiodic ZP CSI-RS; and determining, based on the first field, a first ZP CSI-RS resource set, which is not available for reception of the multicast PDSCH, from a first list of ZP CSI-RS resource sets configured by the first aperiodic resource set configuration. The resource configuration is absent in the first PDSCH configuration.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network node, an indication of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) processing unit (PPU) limit associated with the UE. The UE may receive configurations for a plurality of search space sets, wherein the plurality of search space sets includes one or more linked pairs of search space sets with linked PDCCH candidates for PDCCH repetition. The configurations of the one or more linked pairs of search space sets may be based at least in part on the PPU limit associated with the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured with a cross-component carrier or cross-beam quasi co-location (QCL) configuration in a sidelink carrier aggregation configuration. For example, a first beam on a first component carrier may be QCLed with a second beam on a second component carrier. The first beam may have a different beam width than the second beam or be in a different frequency range than the first beam, or both. If an application at the UE requests the UE to configure a beam on the second component carrier, the UE may use some parameters used to receive on the first component carrier to communicate using the second beam on the second component carrier.

Devices and methods to provide simultaneous asynchronous and synchronous wireless communications, wherein communications with at least one wireless device are established using an asynchronous operation mode utilizing a first frequency band of a single radio device; and, the asynchronous operation mode is interrupted at periodic intervals to establish a synchronous operation mode utilizing a second frequency band of the single radio device, wherein the synchronous operation mode comprises: during a first of the periodic intervals, advertising at least a first of a plurality of available communication slots and listening for a slot petition from at least one end device; and, if a petition is received from at least one end device, assigning one of the plurality of available communication slots to each end device from which a petition was received, wherein each slot utilizes Coordinated Sampled Listening for both uplink and downlink communications with an assigned end device.

A (repeater) node may identify a first indication of a waveform switch associated with a first link between a base station and the node or a second link between the node and a UE. A waveform switch associated with the first link may be triggered by the base station or the node. A waveform switch associated with the second link may be triggered by the node or the UE. The waveform switch may correspond to a first switch from an OFDM waveform to an SC waveform or a second switch from the SC waveform to the OFDM waveform. The base station may transmit, to the node, an indication of a post-waveform switch resource mapping between a first waveform associated with the first link and a second waveform associated with the second link. The node may execute the waveform switch associated with the first link or the second link.