Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method may include determining, by a first base station associated with a first cell based on a synchronization signal block (SSB) configuration indicating one or more resources on which a synchronization signal block (SSB) may be transmitted by a second cell, one or more interference protected resources on which the first cell will reduce interference towards the second cell; and sending, by the first base station associated with the first cell to a second base station associated with the second cell, information identifying the one or more interference protected resources on which the first cell will reduce interference towards the second cell.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means configured to: determine sampling rate information which controls a rate at which an antenna panel of a communications device makes cell measurements; and determine one or more mobility related parameters based on information received from a network entity about mobility related parameters for the determined sampling rate information.

Abstract: A method for use by a communication device, wherein the method includes the steps of: receiving a handover command from one of a plurality of network cells which provides a communication service for the communication device, creating measurement data upon receiving the handover command, logging the measurement data and the end of the measurement after an execution condition to perform handover to another one of the plurality of network cells is fulfilled, and transmitting the logged measurement data to the other one of the plurality of network cells.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising providing a primary cell capable of serving a terminal device; determining a candidate secondary cell group, comprising one or more cells that have coverage area within the coverage are of the primary cell; determining, from the candidate secondary cell group, a cell that, based on information obtained before or during a connection setup signalling, has the highest probability of being successfully configured as a secondary cell for an inter-site carrier aggregation for the terminal device; and configuring the cell as the secondary cell for the inter-site carrier aggregation.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising means for: receiving, at a user equipment from a source cell, configuration information for reporting information associated with measurement sampling rates per antenna panel of the user equipment and per cell of the network, wherein the network comprises the source cell and one or more target cells; and sending, to a first cell of the network and based on the configuration information, a message comprising information associated with the sampling rates per antenna panel of the user equipment and per cell of the network.

Abstract: An apparatus for use by a UE configured to conduct a communication in a communication network. The apparatus is configured to receive and process signals from the communication network via signal receiving portions, wherein one of the signal receiving portions is a serving cell signal receiving portion used for connecting to the communication network via a serving cell, and another of the signal receiving portions is a non-serving cell signal receiving portion being not used for connecting to the communication network. A signal receiving portion specific offset value is obtained for each of the signal receiving portions. Signal quality values for signals received by the signal receiving portions from the communication network are measured, wherein the cells include the serving cell. A measurement report is sent to the communication network on the basis of the results of the signal quality measurements and the offset values for the signal receiving portions.

Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to signaling and execution of a handover based on an enhanced measurement report. A measurement report comprising an additional information element may be used by a network to make better and urgent decisions concerning handover procedures. Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a recovery mechanism for single active protocol stack handover. A method may include performing a random access procedure with a target base station. The method may also include receiving, during the random access procedure, a random access response from the target base station. A timer may be started for a predefined duration upon receiving the random access response. The method may further include, when a random access complete message is not sent to a source base station, or a radio resource control connection reconfiguration message is not received from the source base station within the predefined duration, informing the target base station about the failure to send the random access complete message to the source base station, or the failure to receive the radio resource control connection reconfiguration message from the source base station. Handover may be completed to the target base station upon expiration of the timer.

Abstract: It is provided a method comprising monitoring if a source cell intends performing a radio reconfiguration of a terminal configured with a conditional handover from the source cell to a target cell; determining a determined category among plural predetermined categories; wherein the radio reconfiguration is associated to the determined category; for each category a respective predetermined sequence of one or more operations is defined; the respective predetermined of one of the categories is different from the respective predetermined sequence of another one of the categories; and the method further comprises inhibiting the performing of the radio reconfiguration of the terminal unless the predetermined sequence of one or more operations of the determined category is performed along with the performing of the radio reconfiguration if the source cell intends performing the radio reconfiguration of the terminal.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a client device comprises 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 client device to: receive a measurement configuration from a first network node device, receive a preconfigured condition for the measurement configuration from the first network node device, and in response to the preconfigured condition for the measurement configuration being fulfilled, use the measurement configuration. A client device, a network node device, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for use by a communication device, the method including the steps of receiving a handover, HO, command from a serving network cell of a plurality of network cells which provides a communication service for the communication device, acquiring current handover related information, logging the current handover related information only if a predetermined condition is fulfilled, wherein the predetermined condition is a condition that the current handover related information is different from previous handover related information, wherein the previous handover related information was acquired and reported by the communication device before receiving the HO command.

Abstract: A multi-panel mobile apparatus may be configured to perform, periodically during a scan time, downlink quality measurements on a serving cell and on at least one neighboring cell; determine, in a first mode, a first distribution of a scan time between a plurality of antenna panels, based on measurement results of a serving antenna panel on the serving cell; determine, in a second mode, a second distribution of the scan time between a subset of the plurality of antenna panels, based on a first difference between measurement results on the serving cell and measurement results on one or more candidate target cells for a handover procedure; and determine, in a third mode, a third distribution of the scan time between a further subset of the plurality of antenna panels, based on a second difference between measurement results on the serving cell and measurement results on a target cell.

Abstract: An apparatus, comprising: means for obtaining radio environment information related to at least one downlink signal received by a user equipment using at least one currently-active reception antenna panel of a plurality of selectively-activatable reception antenna panels; and means for reconfiguring at least one of the plurality of selectively-activatable reception antenna panels to be used for performing radio measurements of a downlink signal to be one of active and inactive in response to a variation in the radio environment information.

Abstract: A method includes determining, with a user equipment, at least one filter measurement of a signal received from a source radio node, and/or at least one filter measurement of a signal received from at least one target radio node; in response to a radio link failure with the source radio node, initiating a re-establishment procedure to become connected to the at least one target radio node, to receive access to a target cell of the at least one target radio node; and transmitting a radio link failure report to the at least one target radio node, the radio link failure report comprising: the at least one filter measurement of the signal received from the source radio node, and/or the at least one filter measurement of the signal received from the at least one target radio node; wherein the at least one filter measurement of the signal received from the source radio node, and/or the at least one filter measurement of the signal received from the at least one target radio node is configured to be used for a root-

Abstract: For example, a communication link between a first relay node and a second relay node, which are in synchronous movement, is established. Beam management assistance information from the first relay node is received at the second relay node upon an occurrence of beam failure at the first relay node (S801). At the second relay node it is decided about a timing at which the received beam management assistance information is to be transmitted to a serving network node (S802), and the received beam management assistance information is transmitted from the second relay node to the serving network node at the decided timing (S803).

Abstract: When an apparatus, which has a direct connection to a serving cell in a wireless network and a sidelink connection to a relaying apparatus at least via which data is relayed between the apparatus and the serving cell, detects a mobility event relating to the direct connection, the apparatus determines for the mobility event a target cell in the wireless network; and causes transmitting over the sidelink connection to the relaying apparatus a control signal message to be relayed to the serving cell, the control signal message indicating at least the mobility event, the target cell and an identifier of the apparatus.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention pertain to a method, comprising receiving a preparatory handover request pertaining to at least one or more physical resources, respectively associated to a particular communication service, preliminarily deciding on the feasibility of such preparatory handover request for each of said at least one or more physical resources associated to the particular communication service dependent on at least one feasibility criterion, and validating the preliminary decision on the feasibility of the preparatory handover request dependent on at least one validation criterion. Likewise, corresponding apparatus and computer program products are addressed, both from network entity perspective such as a gNB, as well as from a terminal's perspective, e.g. from a UE perspective.

Abstract: Certain examples of the present disclosure relate to a first node (401) comprising means for: receiving data addressed to the first node, wherein the received data comprises information to be transmitted to a User Equipment, UE (110); determining, in response to determining that the first node does not serve the UE, an address of a second node (402) that serves the UE; and sending, based at least in part on the determined address of the second node, the received data to the second node.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of interruption time reduction. The method comprises receiving, at a terminal device and from a centralized network device, a configuration at least indicating that a L1 measurement for cell change is to be reported by the terminal device with an indication of interruption free TA acquisition for a cell associated with the cell change, or per a panel indication of the terminal device; and transmitting, to a distributed network device, a report of the L1 measurement based on the configuration.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for user equipment (UE) configuration for accessing at least one cell are provided. For instance, an IAB donor centralized unit (CU) may transmit configuration information for controlling accessing the at least one cell in a dedicated time period in case an operation and management (O&M) or the CU allocates a new physical layer cell identity (PCI) to a IAB-node serving the UE. The message may be directed to UEs served by the IAB-node. In a second scenario, the message may be directed to the mobile terminal (MT) of an IAB node to configure a target parent cell for the case of backhaul radio link failure (RLF).