A method and an apparatus for supporting a wireless connection between an electronic device and an external device are provided. An electronic device includes a microphone; a wireless communication circuit; a display; a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor operatively connected to the microphone, the wireless communication circuit, the display, and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to: detect a trigger for a wireless connection to an external device; based on the detection of the trigger, search for the external device by using the wireless communication circuit; control the display to display a guide related to proximity between the electronic device and the external device; based on detecting that the electronic device and the external device are within a designated range from each other, acquire an external signal through the microphone by performing a designated operation with the external device; perform authentication for the wireless connection to the external device, based on the acquired external signal; and based on a result of the authentication, configure the wireless connection to the external device via the wireless communication circuit.

Signalling and protocol methods are proposed to allow positioning operations with signals of the cellular system for a UE in idle or inactive mode. In one novel aspect, UL-PRS is embedded in the RACH procedure: a set of RACH preambles with the functionality of UL-PRS are defined. These preambles are sent by the UE to the serving gNB to initiate a RACH procedure, and the following signalling could convey the measurement results. In another novel aspect, positioning operations on the network side are triggered through an AMF. The AMF may elect not to bring the UE to connected mode before transferring the location request to an LMF; instead, the AMF may indicate that the UE is in idle mode and it expects to page the UE with a subsequent message from the LMF.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit route information indicating a route associated with the UE. The UE may receive, based at least in part on transmitting the route information, configuration information indicating at least one other UE assigned to the UE for sidelink positioning. Numerous other aspects are described.

A wireless entity, such as a user equipment (UE) or transmission reception point (TRP), receives and processes aggregated positioning reference signals (PRS) to increase the effective PRS bandwidth, thereby increasing positioning accuracy, such as time of arrival measurements. An aggregated PRS includes one or more PRS components that are transmitted from a same transmitting entity. Each PRS component may be, e.g., a separate PRS resource associated with a contiguous frequency-domain bandwidth or may be, e.g., a plurality of frequency-domain bandwidths spanned by a single PRS resource. PRS components of an aggregated PRS that are unpunctured, e.g., do not collide with higher priority signals, are aligned in time domain, and are configured with common constraints are processed jointly assuming that the PRS components are transmitted from a same antenna port, thereby increasing the effective PRS bandwidth.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive situational information for a second wireless device over a first communication link between the first wireless device and the second wireless device and situational information for a third wireless device over a second communication link between the first wireless device and the third wireless device. The first wireless device may transmit message with guidance information to the second wireless device on behalf of the third wireless device and based on the second wireless device and the third wireless device having an event likelihood above a threshold. The event likelihood may be based on the situational information for the second wireless device and the situational information for the third wireless device.

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor configured to estimate positions where wireless devices communicating each other are located from position candidates based on position candidate information indicating the position candidates of the wireless devices and from first communication information in communication using a first propagation path between the wireless devices to N-th communication information in communication using a N-th propagation path (N: an integer of 2 or more) between the wireless devices.

Presented herein are methodologies for managing radio resources in a venue that implements a high density wireless infrastructure. The methodology includes detecting, using wireless access points, neighbor awareness networking (NAN) communications broadcast by a mobile device, determining a wireless channel on which the mobile device is sending the NAN communications, predicting a destination of the mobile device based on a path, through a predetermined venue, being taken by the mobile device, the path being detected using the wireless access points; and implementing a radio resource management remediation technique to reduce radio interference that is expected to be caused by the NAN communications broadcast by the mobile device at the destination based on the wireless channel and the destination.

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to responder-to-responder Wi-Fi sensing between station devices. A device may cause to send, during a trigger frame sounding phase of a responder-to-responder Wi-Fi sensing, a sensing responder-to-responder sounding trigger frame to the first station device and the second station device, the sensing responder-to-responder sounding trigger frame associated with causing the first station device to send a responder-to-responder null data packet (NDP) to the second station device; cause to send, during a reporting phase of the responder-to-responder Wi-Fi sensing, a sensing report trigger frame to the second station device; and identify, during the reporting phase, a sensing measurement report from the second station device based on the sensing report trigger frame, wherein the sensing measurement report is indicative of measurements of the responder-to-responder NDP.

Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a transmitter user equipment (UE) determines a first zone identifier (ID) corresponding to a first zone in which the transmitter UE is located, determines a distance threshold based on a distance requirement of an application associated with the transmitter UE, determines a second zone ID based on the first zone ID, the distance threshold, a size of the first zone, or any combination thereof, and transmits the second zone ID and the distance threshold to one or more receiver UEs. In an aspect, the receiver UE receives the second zone ID and the distance threshold, determines a distance between the receiver UE and the transmitter UE based on the second zone ID and a location of the receiver UE, and transmits, based on the distance being less than the distance threshold, a feedback message to the transmitter UE.

A server includes a processor configured to execute instructions stored on a memory to cause the server to: receive a client position signal; predict a future position of a client device based on a client device position signal providing location and velocity information about the client device; instruct a first access point device to provide a first Wi-Fi hotspot network with a first SSID, currently in use by the client device with another access point device, based on the predicted future position of the client device; and instruct a second access point device, which was previously providing a second Wi-Fi hotspot network with the first SSID, to stop providing the second Wi-Fi hotspot network with the first SSID after instructing the first access point device to provide the first Wi-Fi hotspot network with the first SSID.