This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, for measurement and reporting procedures associated with a sidelink positioning reference signal (SL-PRS). In one aspect, a first user equipment (UE), which may function as a sidelink anchor node, may transmit an SL-PRS to a second UE in accordance with a slot format or structure that is dedicated for SL-PRS transmissions. The first UE may select resources for the transmission of the SL-PRS via sensing and exclusion or using a set of resources that are dedicated for SL-PRS transmissions. The second UE may receive the SL-PRS and use the SL-PRS to acquire positioning information, in accordance with an observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA)-based positioning method, or may transmit a second SL-PRS to the first UE to facilitate acquisition of positioning information at the first UE, in accordance with a round-trip-time (RTT)-based positioning method.

One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for operating in relay user equipment (UE). The method may comprise the steps of: receiving a communication request message directly from a first remote UE; performing a procedure for establishing an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity and a protocol data unit (PDU) session; and storing mapping information between an identifier of a PCS link with the first remote UE and an identifier of the PDU session on the basis of the PDU session being established for an unstructured PDU session type for unstructured traffic.

A method for performing wireless communication by a first device and a device for supporting same are provided. The method may comprise: obtaining a default sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration; obtaining a profile representing whether SL DRX is compatible; performing first SL transmission based on the default SL DRX configuration, based on the profile representing that the SL DRX is compatible; establishing a PC5 radio resource control (RRC) connection with a second device; obtaining an SL DRX configuration; transmitting, to the second device, information related to the SL DRX configuration; and performing, to the second device, second SL transmission based on the SL DRX configuration, regardless of the profile.

A communications device is provided. The communications device (which is a receiving communications device) comprises a transceiver configured to receive signals from and/or to transmit signals to one or more of a plurality of other communications devices within sidelink communications resources of a plurality of resource pool instances of a sidelink interface, each of the resource pool instances being arranged in time in accordance with a resource pool periodicity, the resource pool being formed of a plurality of time-divided slots and a plurality of frequency-divided regions, and a controller. The controller is configured in combination with the transceiver to exchange control signaling with a first transmitting communications device of the plurality of other communications devices. Here, the control signaling comprises an indication of a current power saving status of the receiving communications device.

Aspects relate to mechanisms for measuring the interference on the sidelink for use in calculating the channel quality indicator (CQI) in channel state information (CSI) reporting. Channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resources on which a sidelink device may measure the interference may be located outside of a bandwidth allocated for the transmission of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and/or inside of the allocated bandwidth. The sidelink device may measure respective interference values on one or more CSI-IM resources, identify one or more CQI(s) based on the measured interference value(s) and transmit one or more CSI reports including the one or more CQIs to another sidelink device.

The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting and receiving a sidelink positioning reference signal and a terminal. The method includes: when a resource occupied by the sidelink positioning reference signal collides with a resource occupied by at least one type of information in a first information set, not transmitting the S-PRS on the collided resource, wherein the first information set includes: at least one of a sidelink physical channel, a sidelink reference signal, a sidelink synchronization signal, a sidelink synchronization signal block, an automatic gain control information and a guard period information.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for sensing sidelink resources. In a method for communication, in accordance with receiving, at a terminal device from a network device, a first higher layer parameter indicating that partial sensing is enabled for the terminal device, the terminal device determines a candidate resource for performing a sidelink transmission in a target slot. The terminal device determines, for the partial sensing, a sensing window with a configured time length before the target slot. The terminal device determines, in the sensing window, a set of slots based on the configured time length of the sensing window. The terminal device determines a reservation state of the candidate resource by monitoring the set of slots. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, a feasible partial sensing procedure is provided for a terminal device to perform a sidelink transmission in the 5G NR, and thus the performance of sidelink transmissions can be improved.

A transmitting user equipment comprising: means for generating assistance information for a network node. The network node provides a grant of resources for sidelink communications between the transmitting and at least one receiving user equipment. The receiving user equipment is configured to operate in a discontinuous reception mode comprising a discontinuous reception cycle with an active time and an inactive time. The assistance information comprises a plurality of elements indicative of characteristics of the sidelink communications and at least one of the plurality of elements comprises an indication of the discontinuous reception mode of the receiving user equipment.

A communication method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving at least one piece of quality of service QoS information from a second terminal; determining first QoS information based on the at least one piece of QoS information; and determining a first bearer configuration based on the first QoS information, and forwarding data from the second terminal to a third terminal based on the first bearer configuration; or sending the first QoS information to a network device, receiving a first bearer configuration of the network device, and forwarding data from the second terminal to a third terminal based on the first bearer configuration.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may reserve a transmission resource for transmitting a transmission block (TB) via a sidelink communication; reserve a retransmission mission resource for retransmitting the TB, wherein the retransmission resource is reserved such that at least one hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback occasion occurs between transmission of the TB and a first retransmission of the TB; and communicate with another UE via the sidelink communication based at least in part on the transmission and retransmission resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.