Techniques for improved mobility support in wireless networks are provided. A first beacon from a first wireless AP is received, where the first beacon comprises a network identifier (NID) and a service set identifier (SSID). A client device associates to the first wireless AP. Based on the NID, a set of services supported by the first wireless AP are determined. A second beacon is received from a second wireless AP, where the second beacon comprises the first NID, and the client device associates to the second wireless AP based on determining, based on the NID, that the second wireless AP supports the set of services.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reducing uplink interruption in dual active protocol stack (DAPS) handover. For example, the user equipment may transmit an indication either to a source cell or to a target cell that there is no more pending uplink medium access control and radio link control (re)-transmissions to be transmitted to the source cell, after the uplink switch to the target cell occurs during a DAPS handover. Based on the received indication, the network (e.g., the source cell or target cell) may perform one or more actions to enable forwarding of the uplink packets received from the user equipment by the target cell to a user plane function and/or serving gateway.

Disclosed are a method and device for performing a conditional DAPS handover in a mobile communication system. The handover method performed by a terminal in a mobile communication system according to an embodiment disclosed herein comprises the steps of: receiving, from a source base station, configuration information for the conditional DAPS handover of the terminal; identifying, on the basis of the configuration information, a target cell that meets the conditions of the DAPS handover; and performing (660) the DAPS handover to the target cell, wherein data transmission or reception between the terminal and the source base station is maintained during the handover procedure in the DAPS handover.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for pilot grouping, route protocols, and scheduling in multi-carrier communication systems. In an embodiment, an access terminal may group a plurality of pilot signals characterized by different frequencies into one or more pilot groups, each pilot grouping being identified by a plurality of parameters (e.g., a PN offset and a group ID). Each pilot group may include pilot signals having substantially the same coverage area. The access terminal may further select a representative pilot signal from each pilot group for pilot strength reporting. The access terminal may also use the pilot grouping for effective set management.

For continuous data transmission during a handover procedure, Make-Before-Break handover may be introduced, which maintains source evolved NodeB (eNB) connection after reception of radio resource control (RRC) message for handover. In order to reduce ambiguity of Make-Before-Break handover, the present invention provides receiving a handover command from a network, after receiving the handover command from the network, keeping exchanging data with a source cell, stopping exchanging data with the source cell when a condition is met, and after stopping exchanging data with the source cell, starting exchanging data with a target cell.

The present disclosure provides a mobility management method and apparatus. The method may include: receiving a plurality of uplink reference signals periodically transmitted by a user equipment; generating network indication information according to variation information of the plurality of uplink reference signals; delivering the network indication information to the user equipment, enabling the user equipment to perform a corresponding operation according to the network indication information and transmit operation information; and performing mobility management on the user equipment according to the operation information transmitted by the user equipment.

A method for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes the UE maintaining a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a first base station (BS) of a first network while receiving transmissions from a BS of a second network during at least one time period specified in a switch gap configuration. The UE receives an RRC reconfiguration message from the first BS that includes a first command and a second command. The first command instructs the UE to begin a handover procedure from the first BS to a second BS of the first network. The second command controls usage of the switch gap configuration by the UE. The UE initiates the handover procedure according to the first command. The UE may suspend reception of transmissions from the BS of the second network during a time interval following completion of the handover procedure based on the second command.

A method and user equipment are provided. The method includes receiving a scheduling of a transmission on a target cell that collides with a scheduled transmission on a source cell; determining a time duration from an ending symbol of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scheduling the transmission on the target cell to a first symbol of the transmission on the source cell; determining a time value based on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) preparation time and a subcarrier spacing (SCS) configuration; and determining that the time duration is greater than the time value and, in response, performing the transmission on the target cell and cancelling the transmission on the source cell.

Methods and apparatus which allow a wireless terminal (302) to simultaneously maintain connections with multiple base stations (304, 306) are described. Each wireless terminal (302) is capable of supporting multiple separate timing and/or other control loops one, for each base station connection thereby allowing the connections to operate independently and in parallel. Different control signals and/or data are transmitted on each connection that is established with a base station (302, 306). In this manner base stations (302, 306) receive different data allowing for asynchronous data transmission. The data received by the base stations (302, 306) can be supplied to a wired asynchronous network (308) without the need to combine the received data prior to supplying it to the wired network (308). The communications techniques of the invention can be used to implement soft handoffs without the need to duplicate data transmissions to multiple base stations.

AP's associated with a communication network and any wireless devices desiring contact, operated according to a protocol in which each wireless device selects AP's with which to communicate. A system coordinator causes the AP's to operate so as to guide each wireless device to an AP selected by the system coordinator. This has the effect that, notwithstanding that the protocol involves having the wireless device make the selection of AP, functionally, the AP's make the selection for it. In a 1st technique, multiple AP's share an identifier, with the system coordinator directing one particular AP to respond to the wireless device, thus appearing to wireless devices as a personal cell. In a 2nd technique, AP's each maintain identifiers substantially unique to each wireless device, with the system coordinator directing only one particular AP to maintain any particular wireless device's identifier, thus appearing to wireless devices as a personal AP.