Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for determining shared resources associated with one or more user equipments (UEs) for sidelink communications, including control resources and data resources. A first UE may determine a first set of control resources in a first frequency band corresponding to a first group of UEs including the first UE. The first UE may transmit a sidelink request to reserve a subset of data resources to a second UE in the first group of UEs. The first UE may monitor for one or more sidelink responses indicating a positive sidelink response to the sidelink request, a negative sidelink response to the sidelink request, or both. The first UE may determine, based on monitoring for the one or more sidelink responses, whether to transmit a sidelink confirmation indicating a reservation of the data resources to the second UE.

Aspects relate to mechanisms for a wireless communication device to configure and indicate one or more beams for sidelink communication with another wireless communication device. The sidelink communication can include first stage sidelink control information (SCI) and second stage SCI that may be communicated on a first beam configured on the wireless communication devices. The sidelink communication can further include sidelink data traffic that may be communication on a second beam. The second beam may be the first beam or a different beam based on at least one of a beam capability of at least the first wireless communication device or a gap between the sidelink data traffic and at least one of the first stage SCI or the second stage SCI.

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which beam configuration management service is provided. A network device of a wireless access network provides the service that includes identifying redundant configurations across carriers associated with a cell group, and links the common beam configurations to these carriers. The service also includes identifying any difference in beam configurations relative to the common beam configurations for a carrier. The service may transmit this beam configuration information in a control plane message to an end device. The end device may use the beam configuration information.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for rate matching of synchronization signal block (SSB) transmissions in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information indicating a beam-specific rate matching pattern for at least one beam of a plurality of beams configured for the UE, wherein a SSB transmission corresponding to each of the plurality of beams is configured using the same set of frequencies, receiving a data channel using the at least one beam, and processing the data channel based on the rate matching pattern.

A method for operating an access node includes receiving motion information from a user equipment (UE) in accordance with a communications beam, determining a predicted area of the UE in accordance with the motion information, configuring multiple tracking beams in accordance with the predicted area of the UE, and sending the multiple tracking beams.

A base station retransmits data to a user equipment (UE) using a fast beam selection process before the retransmission. The UE transmits an uplink feedback in a beam sweep manner to facilitate fast beam selection in retransmission. The base station can measure the beam sweep patterns from the UE to decide the best beam for retransmission. The UE can send a negative acknowledgment (NACK) or a reference signal in a beam sweep manner to facilitate beam selection at the base station for retransmission.

Methods and apparatuses for measurement information reporting. A method of a user equipment (UE) includes method receiving a configuration for a set of resources comprising non-zero-power channel state information reference signal (NZP CSI-RS) resources or synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block resources and receiving NZP CSI-RS in the NZP CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks in the SS/PBCH block resources from the set of resources. The method includes measuring signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) values based on the NZP CSI-RS or the SS/PBCH blocks; and transmitting, for a subset of resources from the set of resources, a largest of the SINR values, differential SINR values relative to the largest SINR value, and NZP CSI-RS resource indexes (CRIs) or SS/PBCH block indexes for at least some of the NZP CSI-RS resources or the SS/PBCH blocks resources from the subset of resources.

Provided are an electronic device for wireless communication, a method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to obtain configuration information of a unified transmission configuration indication state from a base station, the unified transmission configuration indication state being used for indicating both a downlink beam and an uplink beam; and to execute a beam management-related operation on the basis of the configuration information.

This application describes systems and processes for sensor-assisted antenna and beam selection for wireless networks. The systems and processes are configured to detect out of coverage (OoC) scenarios and perform beam management in response to detecting the OoC scenario. The systems and methods are configured to perform beam management during baseband interruption scenarios. In each scenario, the device (e.g., user equipment UE) is configured to determine whether the UE is static or mobile.

A method of wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE) includes receiving a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message from a second UE. The method also includes periodically transmitting and receiving a radar signal to sense an environment of the first UE. The method includes estimating joint communication and radar side information based on the V2X message and the radar signal. The method further includes predicting a communication state between the first UE and the second UE based on the joint communication and radar side information. The method still further includes updating communication transmit parameters based on the communication state.