A wireless communication device is provided with: 1st to Mth communication processing circuitry, corresponding to 1st to Mth sectors (where M?2), which in operation, each communicate with a wireless terminal by using a beam in any of N directions (where N?2); and handover control circuitry, which in operation, instructs the 2nd communication processing circuitry corresponding to the 2nd sector to change a beam used for beacon transmission to a beam closest to a boundary between the 1st sector and an adjacent the 2nd sector, and switch a communication partner of the wireless terminal from the 1st communication processing circuitry to the 2nd communication processing circuitry.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for a beam-aware handover procedure for multi-beam access systems. A source base station may determine that a handover request is to be sent to a target base station in preparation for handover of a user equipment (UE) from the source base station to the target base station, and transmit the handover request to the target base station with an indication of whether the handover is to be delayed. Alternatively or in addition to, either the target base station or the source base station may generate and transmit a time expiration indicator. The indication of whether the handover is to be delayed or the time expiration indicator may allow either the target base station or the UE to determine whether access parameters for the UE are valid.

Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a second radio network node (13) for enabling a mobility procedure of a wireless device (10) between a first radio network node (12) and the second radio network node in a wireless communication network (1). The second radio network node (13) determines an active set of beams used at the second radio network node for connected wireless devices, and the second radio network node (13) transmits an indication to the first radio network node (12). The indication indicates the determined active set of beams. The active set of beams is used in the mobility procedure of the wireless device (10).

Supplementary uplink (SUL) may be used in wireless systems. Cell suitability criteria may be provided for cells configured with SUL. A Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) may receive paging with an indication of a carrier (e.g., SUL or regular uplink (RUL) in which to initiate part or all of an initial access. A WTRU that may be performing response-driven paging may provide (e.g. explicit) beam information for beamforming of a paging message on a non-beamformed SUL. A handover (HO) procedure (e.g., carrier selection, configuration handling, HO failure, etc.) may be provided for a WTRU with a configured SUL. A WTRU may request a change of a configured UL. A WTRU may (e.g., autonomously) perform a switch to a different (e.g., configured) uplink, for example, when one or more conditions may be met (e.g., conditional switch). Semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) resources/configuration may be relocated from a first UL to a second UL.

A beam sending method, a device, a base station, a terminal and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: sending a first part of SSB beams of a first cell or not sending SSB beams of a first cell; when a set condition is met, or when set time information and/or frequency domain information are met, activating and/or sending the SSB beams of the first cell; the activated and/or sent SSB beams are part or all of other SSB beams if the SSB beams are sent, or all or part of the SSB beams of the first cell if the SSB beams are not sent; where the SSB beams of the first cell are divided into at least two parts; the set time information and/or frequency domain information are configured by a network in advance through a signaling.

A method and device for selecting a beam used in communication in an environment in which massive-MIMO beamforming is performed, to include a base station including: a communication unit configured to form multiple beams and perform communication with a terminal apparatus; and a control unit configured to transmit, to the terminal apparatus, first identification information of a group that is used in communication with the terminal apparatus among the first identification information allocated to groups each of which includes multiple beams to be formed.

According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method of performing a conditional handover by a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) user equipment (UE) may include: transmitting a cell measurement report to a serving cell; receiving conditional handover configuration information from the serving cell; determining whether to perform a handover, based on the conditional handover configuration information; and when it is determined to perform the handover, performing random access to a target cell.

For example, a communication link between a first relay node and a second relay node, which are in synchronous movement, is established. Beam management assistance information from the first relay node is received at the second relay node upon an occurrence of beam failure at the first relay node (S801). At the second relay node it is decided about a timing at which the received beam management assistance information is to be transmitted to a serving network node (S802), and the received beam management assistance information is transmitted from the second relay node to the serving network node at the decided timing (S803).

Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for implementing dual-connectivity handover. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by user equipment (UE), whether the UE is capable of simultaneous communication with a source cell and a target cell, generating, by the UE, a handover indicator, the handover indicator having one or more fields structuring data that indicates that the UE is capable of simultaneous communication with the source cell and the target cell, transmitting, by the UE, the handover indicator to an access node, and receiving, by the UE and from the access node based on receipt by the access node of the handover indicator, a command to perform handover.

This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device receives conditional handover configuration information from a first network device, where the configuration information is used to configure a trigger condition of a conditional handover, and the first network device is a network device to which a serving cell currently accessed by the terminal device belongs. The terminal device determines a first target cell based on the conditional handover configuration information, where the first target cell is a cell in at least one candidate target cell that satisfies the trigger condition.