Conditional handover in handover command

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12256453-B2
Application number	US-202017632617-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 14, 2020
Priority date	Aug 15, 2019
Publication date	Mar 18, 2025
Grant date	Mar 18, 2025

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for conditional handover in handover command. In one embodiment, a wireless device (WD) is configured to receive a request to perform a mobility procedure for a wireless device from a source cell supported by a source network node to a target cell supported by the network node, the request including a current configuration for the wireless device in the source cell; upon receiving the request, determine to prepare a conditional reconfiguration for the wireless device; and transmit the conditional reconfiguration and a radio resource control, RRC, reconfiguration for the wireless device, the RRC reconfiguration being associated with the requested mobility procedure from the source cell to the target cell supported by the network node and the conditional reconfiguration being associated with a target candidate cell determined by the network node.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method implemented in a wireless device (WD), configured to communicate with a source network node and a target network node, the method comprising:
receiving at least one radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message, the at least one RRC reconfiguration message including a conditional reconfiguration prepared by the target network node and an indication that the WD is to perform a mobility procedure from a source cell supported by the source network node to a target cell supported by the target network node;
attempting to access the target cell according to the indicated mobility procedure;
when the attempt to access the target cell succeeds, then performing a cell change according to the indicated mobility procedure; and
when an attempt to access the target cell fails, performing a cell change to a target candidate cell selected associated with the conditional reconfiguration from one of a first set of candidate cells associated with the source network node supporting the source cell.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein
each selected candidate cell is associated with a respective conditional reconfiguration and the target network node.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein
each selected candidate cell being associated with a respective conditional reconfiguration and the source network node supporting the source cell.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the conditional reconfiguration and the indication to perform the mobility procedure are both included in a same RRC reconfiguration message.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein an explicit indication indicates to the WD to perform the conditional reconfiguration comprised in the same RRC reconfiguration message only after accessing the target cell according to the mobility procedure indicated in the same RRC reconfiguration message.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the conditional reconfiguration and the indication to perform the mobility procedure are prohibited from being in a same RRC reconfiguration message.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
when the conditional reconfiguration and the indication to perform the mobility procedure are included in a same RRC reconfiguration message, performing an RRC re-establishment procedure, instead of the indicated mobility procedure and the conditional reconfiguration.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the mobility procedure is a handover of the WD from the source cell to the target cell.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the mobility procedure corresponds to request to at least one of add and change a primary secondary cell, PScell, for the WD.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication to perform the mobility procedure includes one of a reconfiguration with sync field and a mobility control information field comprised in the at least one RRC reconfiguration message.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving signaling indicating to one of add, modify and release the conditional reconfiguration of the target candidate cell prepared by the target network node.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the conditional reconfiguration associated with the target candidate cell includes a trigger condition configuration, the trigger condition configuration including a set of pointers to at least one measurement identifier, and each measurement identifier of the at least one measurement identifier is associated with at least one trigger condition and an RRC reconfiguration.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining to not transmit a RRC reconfiguration complete message based at least in part on a presence of the conditional reconfiguration associated with the target candidate cell in the at least one RRC reconfiguration message.

14. A method implemented in a target network node, the method comprising:
receiving a request to perform a mobility procedure for a wireless device (WD) from a source cell supported by a source network node to a target cell supported by the target network node, the request including a current configuration for the WD in the source cell;
upon receiving the request, determining to prepare a conditional reconfiguration for the WD; and
transmitting the conditional reconfiguration and a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration for the WD, the RRC reconfiguration being associated with the requested mobility procedure from the source cell supported by the source network node to the target cell supported by the target network node;
when an attempt to access the target cell succeeds, performing a cell change according to the requested mobility procedure; and
when the attempt to access the target cell fails, transmitting an explicit indication to select the target candidate cell associated with the conditional reconfiguration from one of a first set of candidate cells associated with the source network node supporting the source cell.

15. A wireless device (WD) configured to communicate with a source network node and a target network node, the WD comprising processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to cause the WD to:
receive at least one radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message, the at least one RRC reconfiguration message including a conditional reconfiguration prepared by the target network node and an indication that the WD is to perform a mobility procedure from a source cell supported by the source network node to a target cell supported by the target network node;
attempting to access the target cell according to the indicated mobility procedure;
when the attempt to access the target cell succeeds, then performing a cell change according to the indicated mobility procedure; and
when an attempt to access the target cell fails, performing a cell change to a target candidate cell selected associated with the conditional reconfiguration from one of a first set of candidate cells associated with the source network node supporting the source cell.

16. A target network node, the target network node comprising processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to cause the target network node to:
receive a request to perform a mobility procedure for a wireless device (WD) from a source cell supported by a source network node to a target cell supported by the target network node, the request including a current configuration for the WD in the source cell;
upon receiving the request, determine to prepare a conditional reconfiguration for the WD; and
transmit the conditional reconfiguration and a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration for the WD, the RRC reconfiguration being associated with the requested mobility procedure from the source cell supported by the source network node to the target cell supported by the target network node;
when an attempt to access the target cell succeeds, perform a cell change according to the requested mobility procedure; and
when the attempt to access the target cell fails, transmit an explicit indication to select the target candidate cell associated with the conditional reconfiguration from one of a first set of candidate cells associated with the source network node supporting the source cell.

Assignees

• Ericsson Telefon Ab L M

Inventors

• Da Silva Icaro Leonardo
• Eklöf Cecilia

Classifications

• H04W76/19 Primary

  Connection re-establishment · CPC title

• H04W36/0064

  of control information between different access points · CPC title

• H04W36/00698

  using different RATs · CPC title

• H04W36/0055

  Transmission or use of information for re-establishing the radio link · CPC title

• H04W36/08

  Reselecting an access point · CPC title