Abstract: In some implementations, a device may transmit a buffer monitoring request message, wherein the buffer monitoring request message indicates a threshold time. The device may receive a buffer monitoring response message, wherein the buffer monitoring response message indicates one or more data radio bearers (DRBs) having buffers that exceed a data threshold for a time longer than the threshold time, and wherein the buffer monitoring response message indicates respective buffer sizes. The device may receive a measurement report of a user equipment (UE) associated with a buffer size among the respective buffer sizes, wherein the measurement report is associated with secondary node (SN) candidates. The device may establish, based on the measurement report, a New Radio dual connectivity (NR-DC) for the UE by adding an SN from the SN candidates.

Abstract: A system may include a mobile integrated access and backhaul (M-IAB) base station configured to serve a set of user equipment (UE) devices; and a parent base station configured to establish a backhaul link for the M-IAB base station. The parent base station may be further configured to provide configuration data to the M-IAB base station that causes the M-IAB base station to report when a triggering condition for preparing a handover to a target parent node is satisfied; detect that the triggering condition is satisfied; and send, in response, a request to the target parent node to prepare the handover. The M-IAB base station may be further configured to detect that a handover condition is satisfied and send a handover request to the target parent node using the configuration data, in response to detecting that the handover condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A network device obtains a Physical Layer Cell Identifier (PCI) pool for allocating to ad-hoc mobile Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes traversing a wireless network. The network device selects a first PCI for allocation to a first ad-hoc mobile IAB node located in the wireless network based on PCIs contained in the PCI pool, and allocates the first PCI to the first ad-hoc mobile IAB node. The network device pushes the allocated first PCI to the first ad-hoc mobile IAB node for use by the first ad-hoc mobile IAB node to establish User Equipment (UE) wireless access to the wireless network via wireless backhaul.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide extended reality (XR)-aware scheduling in a radio access network (RAN). A RAN device receives downlink (DL) metadata for downlink packets in an extended reality (XR) session and uplink (UL) metadata for uplink packets in the XR session. The RAN device selects a scheduling discipline for the XR session, based on the DL metadata and the UL metadata, and implements the selected scheduling discipline for the XR session.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide intelligent scheduling in a radio access network (RAN). A RAN device receives traffic characterization model parameters and also receives data for a communication session with a User Equipment (UE) device. The RAN device identifies traffic characteristics for the communication session based on the traffic characterization model parameters. The traffic characteristics include a predicted level of periodicity for a future time interval. The RAN device selects a scheduling discipline for the communication session based on the projected level of periodicity for the future time interval, and implements the selected scheduling discipline for the communication session.