Sessions in progress are seamlessly moved between devices of a software platform. Proximity-based session handovers are performed between devices of the software platform utilizing short range signals. The short range signals include a frequency signature. The frequency signature is associated with a vehicle. A handover a session in progress from a mobile device to the vehicle is performed based on the detection of a short range signal.

A method of processing state information relating to user equipment in a communications system comprising a radio access network, the method comprising: maintaining current state information relating to the user equipment; and on the basis of a change of connection of the user equipment from a first cell to a second cell: transmitting a current value associated with a given state information part to the target radio access node in response to detecting at least one of one or more predetermined triggers that indicate that the target radio access node may not have received the current value from the source radio access node; or relying on the target radio access node having received the current value from the source radio access node if said at least one of said one or more predetermined triggers is not detected.

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, an apparatus, and a system. In this solution, after determining that a connection failure occurs, a terminal device records and sends a first report. The first report includes cell information of a first logical cell, or the first report includes a PLMN identifier of a first logical cell and cell information of a second logical cell. The first logical cell includes a source logical cell and/or a failed logical cell in which the connection failure occurs. The second logical cell includes a 1.sup.st logical cell that shares a same physical cell with the source logical cell and/or a 1.sup.st logical cell that shares a same physical cell with the failed logical cell. Based on this, a connection failure rate of the terminal device in a RAN sharing scenario can be reduced, and a handover success rate can be improved.

A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: In an inter-RAT handover scenario, after a terminal device fails to hand over in a process of attempting to hand over from a source network device to a target network device, the terminal device may generate and send a first report to a first network device, where the first report includes a container that includes at least one piece of information related to the handover failure, and the container uses a coding format corresponding to a communication standard of the source network device.

In one embodiment, a mobile radio station in communication with a current base station of a plurality of base stations receives hello packets from one or more of the base stations. The hello packets from the current base station are received on a first frequency via a first mobile radio unit (M1) and the hello packets from one or more base stations are received on a second frequency via a second mobile radio unit (M2). When the signal strength value of the current base station exceeds a threshold value, the mobile radio station: selects a destination from the plurality of base stations based on the destination having a highest signal strength value among those in the plurality of base stations that sent hello packets to M2 on the second frequency, and forces a handoff from M1 to M2, by establishing a new link between M2 and the destination base station.

A method, device, and apparatus for optimizing unbalanced loads covered by a same network and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining whether loads of cells covered by a same network are balanced; determining, if the loads of the cells are unbalanced, a cell with a highest network load rate and a cell with a lowest network load rate in the cells; determining a target offset parameter corresponding to a predetermined index according to a timing advance and the number of sampling points of each of the cell with the highest network load rate and the cell with the lowest network load rate; and adjusting a load of the cell with the highest network load rate and a load of the cell with the lowest network load rate based on the target offset parameter.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a handover method and device, capable of taking information on a slice requested to be handed over and/or information on a slice supported by a target network element into account in a handover process, thereby avoiding impact of introduction of network slicing on cell handover. The handover method includes: determining, by a first device, a handover behavior based on target slice information. The target slice information includes information on a slice requested to be handed over and/or information on a slice supported by a target network element. The handover behavior includes: whether to perform handover and/or whether to perform slice remapping or slice fallback during a handover process.

A camping method, an apparatus, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: executing a first event, where the first event includes the terminal moving from a first zone to a second zone, or the terminal switching from a first state to a second state; and when a first camping priority parameter of the terminal is inapplicable to the second zone or the second state, performing first camping in the second zone or the second state, where the first camping does not use the first camping priority parameter, and the first camping priority parameter includes: a camping priority parameter used by the terminal in the first zone, or a camping priority parameter used by the terminal in the first state.

A wireless communication network delivers a wireless data service from a source access node and a target access node. The network determines a source QoS for the wireless data service from the source access node and a target QoS for the wireless data service from the target access node. The network determines a QoS offset based on a QoS difference between the source QoS and the target QoS. To handover a User Equipment (UE), the network receives source signal strength for the source access node and target signal strength for the target access node from the UE. In response, the network selects the target access node for the handover based on the QoS offset and a signal strength difference between the source signal strength and the target signal strength. The network signals the UE and the target access node to handover the UE to the target access node.

This disclosure describes a request distribution system that can intelligently distribute transportation requests to provider devices to improve transportation system network coverage and efficiency. For example, the disclosed systems can identify a transportation request corresponding to a first transportation mode and analyze multiple limited-eligibility provider devices having various modes as potential recipients for the transportation request. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems can further determine an expected change in network coverage time associated with providing the transportation request to a first provider device corresponding to the first transportation mode versus a second provider device corresponding to a second transportation mode. The disclosed systems can provide the transportation request to the second provider device corresponding to the second transportation mode according to the expected change in network coverage time and/or other transportation request metrics.