In an embodiment, a UE establishes, with a peer sidelink UE, at least one sidelink communications link that each comprises one or more hops. The UE determines estimates a propagation delay between the UE and the peer sidelink UE based in part upon a relationship between a propagation time, between the UE and the peer sidelink UE, and Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) irrespective of whether the UE remains synchronized with respect to the network clock.

In an embodiment, a UE establishes, with a peer sidelink UE, at least one sidelink communications link that each comprises one or more hops. The UE determines estimates a propagation delay between the UE and the peer sidelink UE based in part upon a relationship between a propagation time, between the UE and the peer sidelink UE, and Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) irrespective of whether the UE remains synchronized with respect to the network clock.

Generally, this disclosure provides devices, systems and methods for Cross-Carrier Quasi Co-Location Signaling in an NCT Wireless Network. A UE device may include a receiver circuit to receive a QCL signaling message from a primary cell, the QCL signaling message for a configured secondary cell to identify a primary or one or more secondary cells that are Quasi Co-located with the secondary cell for which the message is provided. The UE device may also include a QCL signal decoding module to decode the QCL signaling message and to determine QCL synchronization parameters. The UE device may further include a synchronization module to synchronize the UE with the primary or one or more secondary cells based on the QCL synchronization parameters obtained from the QCL message received from the primary cell.

A radio communication technology that can achieve low latency, high reliability, and low jitter characteristics. A transmitter is configured to duplicate a packet and transmit the duplicated packets. The receiver is configured to receive the duplicated packets. The receiver is configured to transfer, to an upper layer in the receiver, a first packet that is a packet received earlier out of the duplicated packets. A transfer timing that is a timing with which the first packet is transferred to the upper layer includes at least one of: a reception timing of a second packet that is a packet received later than the first packet out of the duplicated packets; and a cyclical timing (Cycle time) corresponding to a transmission cycle of the duplicated packets.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to select a synchronization signal from multiple synchronization signals received at transceiver nodes of the UE based on configured selection rules. The UE may receive control signaling from another UE, a base station, or some other device indicating a rule for selecting between multiple synchronization signals received across transceiver nodes of the UE. The selection rule may indicate signal quality comparison metrics for selecting the synchronization signal, such as reference signal received power (RSRP) metrics, timing metrics, priority metrics, or a combination thereof. The UE may select a synchronization signal for deriving a timing at the UE based on the selection rule. The UE may forward the selected synchronization signal to one or more other UEs by transmitting the selected synchronization signal via each transceiver node at the UE.

Techniques are described for millimeter wave wireless communication. One method includes configuring a synchronization slot associated with a plurality of synchronization blocks, configuring a transmission of each synchronization block of the plurality of synchronization blocks based on the configured synchronization slot, assigning a synchronization region to a first frequency portion associated with a transmission beam of each synchronization block, assigning at least one of a data region or a control region to a second frequency portion associated with the transmission beam of each synchronization block, and transmitting a synchronization signal during the synchronization region and transmitting at least one of data signal during the data region or control information during the control region to a wireless node.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a first signal; listen, after transmitting the first signal and during a listening interval, for a second signal from a user equipment (UE) affected by the first signal, the second signal being indicative of interference at the first UE; receive the second signal during the listening interval; and initiate an interference management procedure based on receipt of the second signal.

A synchronization signal block transmission method, a device and a storage medium thereof are provided. The method includes that a first device including n antenna panels uses k antennal panels of the n antenna panels for receiving a synchronization signal block sent by at least one antenna panel of at least one second device, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2. Additionally, in accordance with signal strength of each synchronization signal block received by each of the k antenna panels, the first device determines, from the at least one second device, a target second device for carrying out synchronization.

Technologies and techniques are disclosed for managing timing advance (TA) validation of configured grant small data transmission (CG-SDT). A scheduling entity may receive downlink signal quality measurements for downlink beams from a scheduled entity, as well as a CG-SDT configuration request. The scheduling entity may transmit a CG-SDT configuration to the UE in response to receiving the CG-SDT configuration request, where the CG-SDT configuration includes a timing advance (TA) validation criteria based on downlink signal quality measurements meeting configured thresholds.

Aspects discussed herein include a method and associated network device and computer program product. The method includes receiving a network packet, and estimating, using a preamble of the network packet, a power distribution corresponding to a plurality of subcarriers of a channel. The method further includes estimating a carrier frequency offset using the power distribution, and estimating a clock offset using the carrier frequency offset.