Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for a mobility robustness optimization (MRO) mechanism of an inter-radio access technology (RAT) handover procedure. According to an embodiment of the present application, a method can include: receiving a mobility command message from a source new radio (NR) cell, wherein the mobility command message includes an identifier (ID) of a target cell, and the target cell is at least one of an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) cell and an universal terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) cell; determining whether a timer for initiating failure recovery based on triggering a measurement report (e.g., timer T312) is running; and in response to the timer being running, stopping the timer. Furthermore, radio link failure report (RLF) information is transmitted to a network in response to the failure of Inter-RAT handover from NR to E-UTRAN and UTRAN.

This application provides a communication method and apparatus. In an example method, when a first access network device performs unsuccessful listen before talk (LBT) for channel detection on an unlicensed channel, the first access network device sends first indication information to a second access network device. The first indication information indicates that the first access network device performs unsuccessful LBT for channel detection on the unlicensed channel.

Embodiments herein relate, for example, to operations performed by a network node for handling communication of a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The network node receives a first preamble associated with a first downlink (“DL”) beam from the wireless device. The network node transmits a random access response (“RAR”) to the wireless device using the first DL beam associated with the first preamble. Responsive to transmitting the RAR using the first DL beam, the network node determines that the wireless device has not received the RAR. Responsive to determining that the wireless device has not received the RAR, the network node transmits the RAR using a second DL beam.

Disclosed are a handover method for between base stations, and a device, system and storage medium. The base station sends a handover request to a target base station, where the handover request carries type information of a core network used for indicating the type of core network which the UE to be handed over between base stations needs to access. The base station receives a handover response sent from the target base station, where the handover response indicates whether the target base station allows the UE to be handed over to the target base station, and the handover response is sent by the target base station according to the type information of a core network and the type of at least one core network connected to the target base station.

Provided in the present disclosure are a method for radio link failure recovery and user equipment. The method for radio link failure recovery comprises: user equipment (UE) detecting that a handover failure occurs, and when the UE has a stored conditional handover (CHO) configuration, or when the UE has a stored conditional handover (CHO) configuration and CHO recovery is enabled, the UE reverting back to a configuration used in a source cell, the configuration used in the source cell including one or more of a physical layer dedicated configuration, a medium access control (MAC) layer configuration, or a semi-persistent SPS configuration.

A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for forwarding of buffered user data at a target node to a re-establishment node. In an example implementation, the method may include receiving, by a first network node, a handover cancel or an Xn-User plane address indication message from a second network node, the handover cancel or the Xn-User plane address indication message including tunnel addresses for one or more data radio bearers; and forwarding, by the first network node, buffered downlink packets to a third network node or the second network node, the forwarding based at least on the tunnel addresses. In an additional example implementation, the method may include sending, by a third network node, tunnel addresses for one or more data radio bearers to a second network node upon re-establishing of a radio resource control connection; and receiving, by the third network node, buffered packets at the first network node from a second network node or the first network node. In an additional example implementation, the method may include initiating, by a user equipment, a radio resource control re-establishment procedure with a third network node, the re-establishment procedure is initiated upon a handover failure of the user equipment from a second network node to a first network node; and receiving, by user equipment, buffered packets at the first node from a third network node.

A method performed by a target network node includes receiving, from a source network node, a handover request associated with a wireless device. The target network node transmits, via a core network node, a handover reject message to the source network node. The handover reject message comprises a cause value for rejecting the handover request.

The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for integrated access and backhaul radio link failure and handover scenarios in wireless communication systems.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure proposes, when a UE is registered in an AMF which does not support ATSSS (registration procedure), a method by which, an old AMF identifies the registration and releases an MA PDU session and a method by which the UE identifies the registration and releases the MA PDU session in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment.

Restricting mobility between networks by identifying and rejecting incoming mobility events (e.g. handovers) from unknown cell sites based on a cellID included in a handover request. Core network nodes e.g. MME, AMF, SMF, can detect and reject the incoming mobility events by comparing Cell ID with a white list or referring to a database. This improves over current 3GPP specifications and network vendor implementations that support restriction policies on the source but not on the target.