Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for a conditional handover (CHO) with candidate secondary cell group (SCG) mechanism. According to an embodiment of the present application, a user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver and a processor coupled to the transceiver; and the processor is configured to: receive, via the transceiver, a radio resource control (RRC) configuration and another RRC configuration, wherein the RRC configuration includes conditional handover (CHO) configuration information and a CHO execution condition for a candidate master cell group (MCG), and the another RRC configuration includes configuration information for one or more candidate secondary cell groups (SCG) sand a set of execution conditions for the one or more candidate SCGs; and evaluate the CHO execution condition for the candidate MCG upon reception of the RRC configuration.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method and apparatus for integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node migration. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a base station (BS) may: determine whether there is an internet protocol (IP) connection between a second BS and a third BS, wherein one of the first BS and the second BS has a radio resource control (RRC) connection to a mobile termination (MT) of a wireless network node and the other one of the first BS and the second BS has an F1 connection to a distributed unit (DU) of the wireless network node; and initiate, based on the determination, a migration of the MT of the wireless network node to the third BS or a migration of the DU of the wireless network node to the third BS.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: determining, based on area configuration information of a first cell of a network device and location information of a terminal device, a first sub-area corresponding to the terminal device, where the area configuration information indicates information about a plurality of sub-areas corresponding to the first cell, and the plurality of sub-areas include the first sub-area; and obtaining satellite ephemeris information corresponding to the first sub-area. In the foregoing solution, the sub-area is introduced, and the terminal device only needs to obtain the satellite ephemeris information corresponding to the sub-area in which the terminal device is located. This reduces an amount of satellite ephemeris information obtained by the terminal device, and therefore can reduce overheads of the terminal device.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for determining a prediction for a status of a wireless network. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for determining a prediction for a status of a wireless network, comprising: transmitting a first request associated with the prediction to a first node and a second node; receiving information of a trained AI model from the second node; transmitting, to the first node, input for the trained AI model; and receiving the prediction from the first node, wherein the prediction is determined based on the trained AI model and the input.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus, and relate to the communication field. The method includes: A first network device receives a first report from a terminal device, where the first report includes first information, and the first information indicates that the terminal device passively falls back from 2-step random access to 4-step random access, or actively falls back from 2-step random access to 4-step random access. The first network device performs processing based on the first report.

Abstract: A communication method, apparatus, and system, the method including receiving first indication information from a first network device, where the first indication information is requests a terminal device to report first information, and reporting the first information to the first network device, where the first information includes related information in a conditional handover procedure.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for handling a service belonging to a multicast broadcast service (MBS) at a radio access network (RAN) node under a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G system or the like. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: receiving information relating to one or more on-going MBS associated with a UE at one or more RAN nodes; and receiving configuration information from another RAN node, so that at least some or all of data relating to at least one of the one or more on-going MB S associated with the UE can be provided by the abovementioned another RAN node.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for a beam failure detection and recovery procedure in a deactivated secondary node (SN) case in a multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) scenario under a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G system or the like. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: receiving configuration information relating to at least one of a beam failure detection (BFD) procedure and a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure; and receiving a deactivation indication associated with a SN of the UE, or determining an expiry of a timer associated with deactivating the SN of the UE, wherein the deactivation indication is included in at least one of: a radio resource control (RRC) message; and a deactivation medium access control (MAC) control element (CE).

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclose a wireless communication in an IAB network. The method performed by an IAB node may include: transmitting, to a first LAB donor, a first resource configuration for a mobile terminal (MT) of the IAB node, wherein a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node is connected to the first IAB donor and the MT of the IAB node is connected to or is for handing over to the second IAB donor; and receiving, from the first IAB donor, a second resource configuration for the DU of the IAB node, wherein the second resource configuration is determined based on the first resource configuration.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for a user equipment (UE) triggered secondary cell group (SCG) activation procedure in a multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) scenario. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method which may be performed by a UE includes: deciding whether to activate a SCG associated with a secondary node (SN), wherein the SCG has been deactivated; and in response to deciding to activate the SCG, triggering a random access (RA) procedure to the SN.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a wireless communication method and apparatus of supporting artificial intelligence. An exemplary method may include: receiving, first configuration information on a protocol layer responsible for artificial intelligence (AI) management in access stratum, from a network side; receiving, indication information on a set of AI operations from the network side; and transmitting, feedback on at least one of the set of AI operations to the network side, via a message on the protocol layer based on the first configuration information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to communication in an IAB network. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a source donor distributed unit (DU) of a base station comprises a processor and a transceiver coupled to the processor. The source donor DU is coupled to a donor centralized unit (CU) of the base station, and the processor of the source donor DU is configured: to receive, from the donor CU of the base station, address information relating to at least one integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node; and to transmit, via the transceiver, a downlink packet to a target donor DU within at least one target donor DU, wherein the downlink packet is associated with the address information relating to the at least one IAB node.

Abstract: Various implementations include generating an encoder-only model based on initializing one or more weights of one or more attention layers of the encoder-only model using one or more corresponding weights of one or more corresponding attention layers of a decoder-only generative model. Other implementations may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus of supporting data forwarding. An exemplary apparatus, e.g., a candidate target master node (MN) may include: a processor, configured to: determine information of routing optimization for early data forwarding associated with one or more candidate target secondary nodes (SNs) at least prepared by the MN, wherein the early data forwarding is for a conditional handover (CHO) with secondary cell group (SCG) of a user equipment (UE); and a transceiver, coupled to the processor and configured to: transmit the information of routing optimization to a source MN.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method and apparatus for IAB node integration. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a first centralized unit (CU) may: establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a network node; and transmit, to a second CU, information associated with the network node to facilitate an F1 connection setup between the network node and the second CU.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for an uplink (UL) synchronization failure and compliance check in a lower layer-based mobility case under a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G system or the like.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, device, and system, to reduce energy consumption of a terminal device and accelerate reselection performed by the terminal device. In this solution, a network device determines a plurality of sub-areas, and sends area configuration information to the terminal device. The terminal device receives the area configuration information, determines a first sub-area based on the area configuration information, and performs measurement based on information about one or more neighboring frequencies corresponding to the first sub-area. A geographical area range including the plurality of sub-areas includes a coverage area of a first cell, the area configuration information indicates information about the plurality of sub-areas, and the first sub-area is a sub-area in which the terminal device is currently located in the plurality of sub-areas.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for exchanging configuration information regarding a multicast radio bearer (MRB) in a multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) scenario under a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5G system or the like. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: obtaining capability information regarding one or more neighbor nodes in a RAN, the capability information regarding the one or more neighbor nodes is associated with a multicast broadcast service (MBS); determining, based on the capability information regarding the one or more neighbor nodes, configuration information regarding a MRB; and transmitting, to a another RAN node in a MR-DC scenario, the configuration information regarding the MRB, wherein the abovementioned another RAN node belongs to the one or more neighbor nodes.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a corresponding apparatus and system. The method includes: receiving, in a first network, a paging message that is from a first network device and that is used to page a first terminal device, where the paging message includes first information, and a network type of the first network is a first network type; and determining, based on the first information, a second network associated with the paging message that is used to page the first terminal device, where a network type of the second network is a second network type. The first network type is a non-public network and the second network type is a public network, or the first network type is a public network and the second network type is a non-public network. Cross-network paging between networks of different network types can be supported.

Abstract: The present application relates to methods and apparatuses of supporting subsequent L1/L2-triggered mobility (LTM).