A second RAN node (2) associated with a second RAT sends a radio resource configuration of the second RAT to a radio terminal (3) via a first RAN node (1) associated with a first RAT. The radio resource configuration explicitly or implicitly indicates at least one numerology that is included in multiple numerologies supported by the second RAT and is different from a reference numerology. It is thus, for example, possible to allow a radio terminal to be configured with a numerology of a cell served by a secondary gNB or a target gNB in Inter-RAT Dual Connectivity between E-UTRA and NR and in a handover from E-UTRA to NR.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for inter-RAT mobility from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second RAT, including cases in which different RATs correspond to different generations of networks. Approaches described herein include providing a preemptive indication of inter-RAT mobility for one or more geographic areas such to a user equipment (UE). The UE can thus use a mobility procedure to transition from the first RAT to the second RAT that is supported in the UE's location without first attempting an unsupported mobility procedure, reducing transition latency.

A base station of a dual connectivity cellular network is provided. The base station provides a first wireless connectivity of a first regulated wireless communication standard to a user equipment (UE) of a cellular network via a master node of the base station. User plane data is forwarded to the UE through the master node according to a first user plane path. The base station requests a secondary node to provide a second wireless connectivity of a second regulated wireless communication standard to the UE. When the master node is configured by a first configuration, the user plane data is forwarded to the UE through the secondary node according to the second user plane path that is established with the cellular network. When the master node is configured by a second configuration, the user plane data is forwarded to the UE through the secondary node according to the first user plane path.

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: determining that a user equipment (UE) is connected to a cell of a network using a connection in a standalone (SA) mode; based on determining a bandwidth part (BWP) of the connection, accessing a physical cell identifier (PCI) list associated with the UE for a time period; based on the number of PCI values in the list and a duration of the time period, assigning, to a BWP switch timer, a timeout value; initiating the BWP switch timer; and in response to determining that the handover of the UE to the different cell of the network occurs prior to the BWP switch timer reaching the timeout value, causing the UE to switch to a LTE mode.

Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, processors, systems, and methods for performing Quality of Service handling procedures. A wireless device may establish a cellular link that provides access to a fifth generation core network. The wireless device may establish a protocol data unit session with a cellular network entity of the fifth generation core network. The wireless device may determine one or more Quality of Service flow descriptions for the protocol data unit session. The wireless device may perform one or more Quality of Service related modifications to the protocol data unit session.

In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may detect a trigger to provide a measurement report associated with a redirection from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second RAT. The trigger may be a reference signal metric associated with the second RAT satisfying a threshold associated with the reference signal metric. The threshold may be configured by abase station. The UE may selectively provide the measurement report based at least in part on whether one or more other reference signal metrics satisfy one or more other thresholds corresponding to the one or more other reference signal metrics. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A method for congestion control at an eNodeB is described, comprising detecting congestion at an eNodeB and entering a congestion control mode, receiving, at the eNodeB, a new user equipment (UE) connection request that contains a radio resource control (RRC) establishment cause, and using the RRC establishment cause for identifying a congestion management strategy, the congestion management strategy comprising one of initiating a handover for an existing LTE bearer, or redirecting the new UE connection request to a 3G nodeB.

A method of enhancing IP packet forwarding feature support after interworking is proposed. When a PDU session in 5GS is transferred to a PDN connection in EPS, the UE shall assume the feature is supported after inter-system change from 5GS to EPS. When a PDN connection is established in EPS, the network indicated that the feature is not supported, and the network provided 5GSM parameters for ESM/5GSM interworking for this PDN connection, then UE shall assume the feature is supported after inter-system change from EPS to 5GS, the UE shall also assume the feature is supported after inter-system change from 5GS back to EPS. The IP packet forwarding features include PS data off and local IP address in TFT.

A computer-implemented method of operating a mobile communication device includes attaching the mobile communication device to a first cellular network, and while the device is attached to the first cellular network: calculating a first quality of service of the first cellular network, for each of a plurality of other available cellular networks, estimating a quality of service thereof, and if the calculated first quality of service is lower than a pre-determined threshold value representing a minimally acceptable quality of service and the estimated quality of service of at least one of the plurality of other available cellular networks is higher than the first quality of service: detaching the device from the first cellular network, and attaching the device to a second cellular network among the at least one of the plurality of other available cellular networks that has an estimated quality of service higher than the first quality of service.

A method for providing multicast services to mobile devices, comprising: providing, at a controller node, an interface representing a single network node to a multicast server node; receiving, at the controller node, link status messages from a first and a second network node; constructing, at the controller node, a multicast route at the controller node based on the received link status messages; receiving, at the controller node, a multicast data stream from the multicast server node; and sending the multicast data stream to at least two mobile devices via the constructed multicast route.