Cell edge prediction for optimized roaming may be provided. Cell edge prediction can include predicting cell edges for a plurality of APs including a connected AP and one or more additional APs. A cell edge prediction can be for a client connected to the connected AP. The cell edge prediction may comprise an indication of one or more candidate APs for the client to roam to of the one or more additional APs and an estimated time the client will reach the cell edge of the connected AP. After generating the cell edge prediction, the cell edge prediction can be transmitted to the client.

Techniques for identifying and utilizing connectivity issue patterns are described. More specifically, embodiments are directed to utilizing data regarding historical connectivity issues to avoid potential connectivity issues and/or resolve current connectivity issues. In some embodiments, data may be harvested from a plurality of UEs regarding connectivity issues and utilized to build an assistance data repository. In some such embodiments, relevant portions of the assistance data repository may then be provided to and utilized by UEs to avoid potential connectivity issues and/or resolve current connectivity issues. In this way, UEs can leverage the connectivity issues experienced by a population of UEs to improve network connectivity and performance. For example, patterns identified in connectivity issues experienced by the population may be utilized to identify efficient and reliable ways to resolve the connectivity issue when it is experienced in the future.

Presented are systems and methods for successful handover reporting. A wireless communication node may receive a first radio resource configuration (RRC) message including: an indication that a successful handover report (SHR) is available at the wireless communication device, and an indication of a type of radio access technology (RAT) associated with the SHR from a wireless communication device. The wireless communication node may receive a second RRC message that comprises: the SHR and first information from the wireless communication device.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for supporting a successful handover report. In a method for communication, a terminal device receives a report configuration from a first network device providing a first cell. The report configuration indicates whether a successful handover report is to be generated for a handover of the terminal device from the first cell to a second cell of a second network device. Then, the terminal device applies the report configuration during performing of the handover. Through the embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device may be limited to reporting a successful handover report if the source network device considers the successful handover report as necessary, thereby saving the processing resources and communication resources for the potentially unnecessary successful handover reports.

A method and system for neighbor relation management in wireless broadband networks is disclosed. The method includes dynamically selecting, by a Serving Base Station (SBS), a set of signal measurement reports from a plurality of signal measurement reports received within a predefined time interval. The method further includes sampling, by the SBS, signal level values of a plurality of configured Neighboring Base Stations (NBSs) and at least one new NBS, from the set of signal measurement reports, for a predefined sampling time period. The method includes computing, by the SBS, a retention factor for each of the plurality of configured NBSs and each of the at least one new NBS, in response to sampling the signal level values.

A radio communication system, a radio station, a network operation management apparatus, and a network optimization method are provided that make it possible to avoid performance degradation in the entire system when network optimization is performed individually. In the radio communication system in which radio stations perform network optimization based on statistical communication quality in at least one cell, a radio station (10) notifies information related to a change in statistical communication quality in a cell under the radio station (10) to another radio station (20) or a network apparatus (30) managing the another radio station.

In one embodiment, a system includes: an input/output (I/O) module operative to receive operational data for features associated with at least inter-cell performance in a mobile network, processing circuitry, a model generator application to be executed by the processing circuitry and operative to: use at least one prediction model to analyze training sets comprising examples of values for the features for at least overshooting cells, and to generate a scoring model for detection of the overshooting cells from among cells in the mobile network, and a boomer detection application to be executed by the processing circuitry and operative to: use the scoring model with the operational data to detect the overshooting cells from among cells in a mobile network, and reduce interference by the overshooting cells.

This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives a conditional handover CHO configuration from a network device to which a serving cell belongs, where the CHO configuration includes trigger conditions respectively corresponding to M candidate cells, and the trigger condition includes a plurality of time trigger conditions and/or a plurality of distance trigger conditions, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and when a trigger condition corresponding to a first candidate cell in the M candidate cells is met, the terminal device is handed over from the serving cell to the first candidate cell, so that handover signaling overheads can be reduced.

There are provided a system and method of computerized optimizing neighbor relation tables (NRTs) of access points in a cellular network comprising a plurality of access points (APs). The method comprises: a) obtaining initial handover-related estimations for AP pairs each constituted by a given source AP and its neighbouring APs located in a predefined range and thereby considerable as candidates for an NRT of the given AP; b) generating a handover (HO) prediction model; c) using the generated HO prediction model to assess HO-related counts for each AP pair of the AP pairs; d) using the assessed HO-related counts to generate, by the computer, data usable for NRT optimization; and e) enabling modifying at least one NRT in accordance with the generated data.

The present disclosure provides a method for radio frequency fingerprint database creation, a method for radio frequency fingerprint database application, a device, a centralized processing device and a base station. During creating a radio frequency fingerprint database, neighbor cell information statistics is performed on each of a plurality of neighbor cells of the cell in each of the plurality of divided grids, and an effective radio frequency fingerprint database corresponding to the cell is generated according to a result of the dividing and a result of the neighbor cell information statistics.