| CPC H04B 7/06966 (2023.05) [H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 76/19 (2018.02)] | 15 Claims |

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1. A first user equipment (UE), comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the first UE to:
establish a PC5 radio resource control (PC5-RRC) connection for sidelink unicast communication with a second UE;
transmit the sidelink unicast communication over the PC5-RRCconnection;
detect a sidelink failure for the PC5-RRC connection based at least in part on reception of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH);
declare the sidelink failure for the PC5-RRC connection based at least in part on detecting the sidelink failure; and
increment a value of a counter in response to the sidelink failure.
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