Abstract: A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an handover management service. The handover management service may include receiving a measurement report from an end device. The measurement report may include an SINR value in combination with RSRP and/or RSRQ values. The measurement report may include values from a source cell, a candidate target cell, or both source and candidate target cells. The handover management service may determine whether to perform a handover, based on the measurement report in which a handover criteria does not include an RSRQ value. The handover management service may also determine whether to perform a handover based on handover criteria that includes a variable value for a threshold value. The variable value, among values, may be selected and correlated to a value included in the measurement report.

Abstract: A novel method for service based network resource allocation is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving from a UE at a base station over a Primary Cell (PCell), a request message to perform an action with respect to a Secondary Cell (SCell), the request message including service information. The method then determines a specific action to be performed with respect to the SCell based on the service information. Finally, the method performs the specific action with respect to the SCell at the base station and transmits a connection reconfiguration message to the UE to direct the UE to perform the specific action based on a service to be supported.