Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to relate to network nodes (20A; 20B), methods and computer program products configured to hand over a communication link between a cell and user equipment (10) in a wireless communication network from a source cell (40A) to a target cell (40B; 40C).

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a method of mobility between distributed units with a local control plane are provided. For example, a method can include detecting, at a target distributed unit, a handover based on an indication from a source distributed unit after a handover command has been sent to a user equipment to hand over from the source distributed unit to the target distributed unit. The method can also include sending, from the target distributed unit to a central unit user plane, a data transmission resume notification, to trigger to the central unit user plane to resume downlink data transmission toward the target distributed unit. The downlink data transmission was previously suspended by instructions from a source distributed unit to the central unit user plane when the handover was initiated from the source distributed unit to the target distributed unit.

Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: detecting, by a first network node from a user equipment, a connection request to a first radio access technology, RAT; determining, before the user equipment is switched to a connected state in the first RAT, whether a second RAT is more suitable to serve the user equipment than the first RAT; and upon deciding that the second RAT is more suitable, providing the user equipment with connection information of the second RAT, wherein the connection information causes the user equipment to directly connect with the second RAT instead of the first RAT.

Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: detecting, by a first network node from a user equipment, a connection request to a first radio access technology, RAT; determining, before the user equipment is switched to a connected state in the first RAT, whether a second RAT is more suitable to serve the user equipment than the first RAT; and upon deciding that the second RAT is more suitable, providing the user equipment with connection information of the second RAT, wherein the connection information causes the user equipment to directly connect with the second RAT instead of the first RAT.