Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within one or more nodes. The apparatus includes control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to perform adaptive ranking to generate an alternative ranked set of beam pairs based on an adaptive ranking criteria, where the adaptive ranking criteria includes switching latencies and predicted qualities and select an alternative beam pair of the alternative ranked set of beam pairs.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to decode a conditional handover command from a serving cell for the UE to connect with a target cell, and to evaluate a condition before executing the handover command, wherein a first time to trigger (TTT) is started in the event the condition is true, and wherein a second TTT is started in the event the condition is true at an expiration of the first TTT, and wherein the one or more baseband processors are to execute the conditional handover command when the condition is true after an expiration of the second TTT, and a memory to store the first TTT and the second TTT.