CHANNEL OCCUPANCY SHARING CONDITIONS FOR BEAM-BASED CHANNEL ACCESS

Abstract

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for channel occupancy sharing conditions for beam-based channel access. In some aspects, one or more wireless devices may support a beam-based channel access procedure according to which a first wireless device may share a channel occupancy time (COT) of a second wireless device without performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure if one or more conditions associated with a transmission from the first wireless device are satisfied. Such conditions may be associated with whether a directional beam used by the first wireless device satisfies a narrow beam condition, a time gap between a transmission from the second wireless device and a transmission from the first wireless device, or a duration of a continuous transmission from the first wireless device, or any combination thereof.

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