A method (1200) performed by a wireless device (110) includes obtaining a remaining service time (T.sub.service) associated with a first satellite or first spot beam. Based on the remaining service time, the wireless device determines whether to initiate a connection with the first satellite or first spot beam.

A method by a wireless device includes determining that a Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is unavailable to the wireless device and/or will be unavailable to the wireless device. The wireless device determines not to perform an inactive mode or idle mode procedure during a period of time when the NTN is unavailable to the wireless device.

A multi-user satellite system provides communication services to external satellites. This satellite system provides in-orbit access points that can be used by the external satellites to offload data instead on relying directly on ground stations. One approach to such communication is to use a set of interface satellites (“converter satellites”) that provide a gateway between a constellation of satellites that together provide communication services to one or more ground stations, but that do not necessarily have the communication capabilities to communicate with external satellites. In this way, the interface satellites can be put in compatible orbits with external satellites and provide communication gateways that can be used to offload data from the external satellites to ground stations. As external satellites change their communication methods, the interface satellites can be reconfigured or new compatible interface satellites can be launched, without having to modify the constellation of satellites.

An architecture to eliminate situations in which aerial user equipment become unreachable by core mobile network operator equipment as a consequence of radio link failure events. A method comprises determining, based on type data, that a user equipment is an aerial user equipment, initiating a discontinuous reception timer device using defined time values, transmitting downlink data addressed to the aerial user equipment, determining, based on an expiration of the defined time values as measured by the discontinuous reception timer device and acknowledgement data associated with the transmitting of the downlink data, that the aerial user equipment is unreachable, and based on the aerial user equipment being unreachable, sending request data to base station equipment, wherein the request data facilitates the base station equipment to terminate a communication channel that links the base station equipment to the aerial user equipment.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a coordinate switch indication that indicates that the UE is to calculate a first value of a new ephemeris coordinate of a plurality of coordinates. The UE may calculate the first value of the new ephemeris coordinate based on one or more other ephemeris coordinates of the plurality of ephemeris coordinates and may generate ephemeris information, associated with a non-terrestrial communication device, based on the calculation of the first value of the new ephemeris coordinate. The UE may communicate with the non-terrestrial communication device based on the ephemeris information. Numerous other aspects are described.

A measurement method including determining, by a terminal device, a first adjustment parameter of a to-be-measured neighboring cell, determining, based on the first adjustment parameter, a first synchronization signal block-based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window corresponding to the to-be-measured neighboring cell, and measuring the to-be-measured neighboring cell based on the first SMTC window.

A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive broadcast information from a public land mobile network (PLMN) including at least a PLMN identifier (ID), attempt a registration with the PLMN by sending a registration request to the PLMN, wherein the UE attempts the registration via a base station operated by the PLMN deployed in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) arrangement including a non-terrestrial component configured to provide services to the UE via a service link, receive a message including a cause code indicating the PLMN is not allowed to operate at a current UE location and further including a set of attributes indicating further conditions wherein the registration with the PLMN is not allowed and avoid further registration attempts with the PLMN when the further conditions are met.

A method and a user equipment (UE) for performing timing alignment is provided. The method includes receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a Timing Advance (TA) report configuration in System Information (SI); and transmitting, to the BS, a TA report based on the TA report configuration. The TA report configuration includes an indication for enabling or disabling the UE to transmit the TA report.

A method and apparatus for non-terrestrial network beam switching is provided. A non-terrestrial network base station includes a transmitter configured to transmit downlink data to user equipment and a receiver configured to receive uplink data from the user equipment. A channel bandwidth of the non-terrestrial network base station is divided into a plurality of bandwidth parts respectively corresponding to a plurality of geographic areas, and each bandwidth part is respectively associated with a satellite beam. When the user equipment is located in a first geographic area, the transmitter transmits the downlink data to the user equipment over a corresponding first bandwidth part. After the user equipment transitions from the first geographic area to a second geographic area, the transmitter transmits the downlink data to the user equipment over a corresponding second bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network node and a user equipment (UE) may establish a connection between the UE and the network node of a non-terrestrial network. The UE may receive, from the network node and based on a type of orbit around Earth of the network node, a first value or the first value and a second value associated with a position or a velocity of the network node relative to a terrestrial-based reference. The UE and the network node may communicate based on the position or the velocity of the network node, or both. In some cases, the position or the velocity of the network node is based on an altitude of the network node, the first value, the second value, and a third value.