Systems and techniques for compensation-based secure positioning

An apparatus for wireless communications, the apparatus comprising:

• at least one memory;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to:
• obtain, at a network entity,
• a target relative time difference (RTD);
• determine, at the network entity, a transmission timing pre-compensation between a first reference signal and
• a second reference signal, wherein the transmission timing pre-compensation is determined based on the target RTD and one or more network delay components;
• and
• transmit, by a transmitter at the network entity,
• the first reference signal and the second reference signal using the transmission timing pre-compensation;
• wherein at least one of the first reference signal and
• the second reference signal is a positioning reference signal (PRS).