Abstract: An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: determine that a conditional handover condition is met; and based upon the determining that the conditional handover condition is met and based, at least partially, on a priority information, select a conditional handover configuration from at least one conditional handover configuration to perform a conditional handover.

Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to: receive two or more filtering configurations, wherein a first configuration is associated with at least one first target cell associated with a first distributed unit, wherein a second configuration is associated with at least one second target cell associated with at least one second distributed unit, wherein the first distributed unit is different from the at least one second distributed unit; select a configuration of the two or more configurations for at least one target cell based, at least partially, on a determination of whether a serving cell and the at least one target cell are controlled with a same distributed unit, wherein the serving cell is controlled with the first distributed unit; and perform filtering of a plurality of layer one measurements associated with the at least one target cell using the selected configuration.

Abstract: There is provided a method, apparatus, and computer program for causing a centralized unit of a radio access network to perform: signalling, to a distributed unit of the radio access network, a layer 1 measurement reporting configuration to be executed by a user equipment as part of a lower layer mobility procedure and at least one activation condition for autonomous execution of the layer 1 reporting configuration.

Abstract: According to example embodiment, a method may include transmitting, by a master node (MN) to a target-secondary node (T-SN), a request for the target-secondary node (T-SN) to prepare a set of one or more candidate target primary cells of a secondary cell group (candidate target PSCells) for a conditional PSCell change for the user device; and transmitting, by the master node (MN) to a source-secondary node (S-SN) that provides dual connectivity for a user device, information indicating or relating to an arrival probability of a cell change for the user device to the target-secondary node (T-SN).

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for configuration and transmission of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS). A method may include forwarding, to a network element, synchronization signal block measurements of a target cell along with synchronization signal block indices. The method may also include requesting the network element to provide a channel state information reference signal configuration for a channel state information reference signal index whose source reference signal corresponds to at least one of the synchronization signal block indices. The method may further include receiving the channel state information reference signal configuration from the network element. In addition, the method may include transmitting the channel state information reference signal configuration to a user equipment.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: operate the apparatus in a dual connectivity mode, wherein the apparatus is in communication with a master cell group comprising a primary cell and at least one secondary cell and the apparatus is in communication with a secondary cell group comprising a primary cell and at least one secondary cell; detect a radio link failure between the apparatus and the primary cell of the secondary cell group; provide information based on the radio link failure to the primary cell of the master cell group, the information being that the radio link failure occurred on the secondary cell group while waiting for a prepared conditional cell change from the primary cell of the secondary cell group to be fulfilled.

Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: establish a connection with a source cell; determine a first timing advance that indicates a propagation delay of uplink transmission to the source cell; determine a second timing advance that indicates a propagation delay of uplink transmission to a target cell; determine whether to initiate a handover procedure to the target cell, based at least on the first timing advance; and synchronize to the target cell during the handover procedure.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: obtain user equipment information indicating whether a user equipment served by the apparatus would need repetitions of a reference signal transmitted by a target base station to successfully select a receiving beam aligned with a transmitting beam in a beam management procedure with the target base station; and send, to the target base station, the user equipment information.

Abstract: Described herein is a User Plane Function, UPF, network node, configured for data forwarding for selective activation of a Secondary Cell Group, SCG, for serving a User Equipment, UE, the UPF network node comprising: at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the UPF network node at least to: receive an indication message for starting data forwarding; and execute data forwarding on the basis of the received indication message.

Abstract: There is provided a method, apparatus, and computer program for causing a centralized unit of a second access point to perform: signalling, to a first distributed unit of a first access point configured to provide a serving cell to a user equipment, a plurality of power control parameters associated with a target cell and a reconfiguration instruction for configuring the user equipment to report uplink measurements with an indication of whether a maximum permissible exposure event has occurred.

Abstract: A UE, in response to a beam failure being detected for a serving cell that serves the user equipment, determines whether a timer is running. One of the following is performed by the UE: in response to the timer running, a beam failure recovery procedure with a target non-serving cell; or in response to the timer not running, a beam failure recovery procedure with the serving cell. Methods, apparatus, computer programs, and computer program products are disclosed.

Abstract: A source network apparatus (10) which provides access for a user equipment (30) to a communication network transmits (S102) a handover command to the user equipment (30), the handover command indicating a target network apparatus (20) for providing access for the user equipment (30) to the communication network, and a detach condition on when the user equipment (30) is to detach from the source network apparatus (10) after having accessed the target network apparatus (20) (S204) and received user plane data packets from the target network apparatus (20) (S205), wherein the source network apparatus (10) continues exchanging user plane data packets with the user equipment (30) (S101, S103) until the user equipment (30) detaches (S306) from the source network apparatus (10).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable medium of a configuration of successful primary secondary cell (PSCell) change report. The method comprises obtaining information associated with a SPCR; and determining a configuration of the SPCR based at least partly on the information.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for survival time dependent flexible handover execution are provided. One method may include providing, by a network node, at least one handover execution condition to at least one user equipment. The at least one handover execution condition may include one or more delta values with respect to one or more actual handover execution conditions to allow for early and/or late execution of a handover by the at least one user equipment. The method may also include indicating, to the at least one user equipment, a transfer interval and/or a survival time information for which the at least one handover execution condition is taken into account.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for conditional handovers. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method including sending, by a first node serving a user equipment, a message to a second node, the message including an indication of whether a conditional cell change is prohibited at the second node; and receiving, by the first node, an acknowledgment in response to the message.

Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to methods, devices and systems that support early beam failure recovery. A terminal device may terminal device may comprise at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the terminal device to perform actions including detecting a beam failure state in association with at least one serving beam, and determining if at least one non-serving beam better than the at least one serving beam is available. The actions may further include triggering an early beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure in a case where the beam failure state is detected and the at least one non-serving beam better than the at least one serving beam is available.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, a method and a computer program product. In accordance with an embodiment the method includes measuring signals of one or more beams of a cell of a wireless communication network for handover; obtaining information of an identity of the one or more beams from the measured signals; storing the measurement results and the identity of the one or more beams; and sending the measurement results and the identity of the one or more beams to the wireless communication network when at least one predetermined condition is fulfilled.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for providing location management function (LMF) assisted mobility robustness optimization (MRO) may include a radio access network (RAN) node which is caused to, collect network handover information associated with at least one first user equipment (UE) device, determine whether to update a mobility policy associated with the RAN node based on the collected network handover information and a desired threshold condition, perform a first mobility policy update procedure for the RAN node based on results of the determination, receive current location information corresponding to at least one second UE device traveling between the at least one cell pair from a location management function (LMF) network device, and assign updated mobility configuration parameters to the at least one second UE device.

Abstract: There are provided measures for beam failure recovery enhancement. Such measures exemplarily comprise, at a terminal, identifying a beam failure with respect to a radio beam provided by a serving cell of said terminal, and deciding, in response to an identified beam failure, to perform beam failure recovery attempts including at least a first beam failure recovery attempt and a second beam failure recovery attempt with respect to said serving cell of said terminal and at least one non-serving cell of said terminal.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to an apparatus configured to enable priority configurations to be updated. The apparatus can be configured to perform receiving information indicative of at least one validity area for the apparatus wherein the at least one validity area comprises includes an area in which priority configurations assigned to the apparatus are valid; detecting that the apparatus has moved out of the at least one validity area; in response to detecting that the apparatus has moved out of the at least one validity area performing at least one of: receiving at least one new priority configuration and following the at least one new priority configuration, or triggering a state change to a connected mode to obtain at least one new priority configuration from an access node.