| CPC H04W 4/40 (2018.02) [H04W 80/04 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), an announcement of support for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service using a unicast or a groupcast communication;
transmitting, by the UE, a first connection establishment request message to establish a secure link to a second UE, to support a V2X communication to enable the V2X service, wherein the first connection establishment request message is transmitted over a PC5-S interface;
receiving, by the UE, a first response message from the second UE over the PC5-S interface that accepts the first connection establishment request message;
transmitting, by the UE, a second connection establishment request message that is transmitted over a PC5-Radio Resource Control (PC5-RRC) interface to the second UE; and
receiving, by the UE, a second response message from the second UE over the PC5-RRC interface that accepts or rejects the second connection establishment request message.
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