The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5.sup.th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4.sup.th-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.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may transmit a resource status request requesting load information related to load balancing between the wireless communication device and one or more other wireless communication devices. The wireless communication device may receive a resource status response including the load information in response to the request. In other aspects, a User Equipment (UE) may receive a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration including a set of target cells for a conditional handover procedure and load information of the target cells. The UE may select a target cell from the set of target cells for the conditional handover procedure based at least on the load information of the target cells. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Various arrangements of hybrid cloud cellular network systems are presented herein. A cellular radio access network (RAN) that includes multiple base stations (BSs) can be in communication with a cloud computing platform. Multiple cloud-implemented national data centers (NDCs) can be present and executed on the public cloud computing platform. Network functions (NFs) are executed within each cloud-implemented NDC on the public cloud computing platform. The system further includes a cellular network database function. An instance of the cellular network database function is executed within each cloud-implemented NDC on the public cloud computing platform and updates each other instance of the cellular network database function.

A remote UE or a relay UE may identify a configuration for a relocation of one or more session termination points associated with one or more radio access packet data sessions from the relay UE to the remote UE or from the remote UE to the relay UE. The remote UE or the relay UE may execute the relocation of the one or more session termination points associated with the one or more radio access packet data sessions from the relay UE to the remote UE or from the remote UE to the relay UE based on the configuration. The session termination point relocation may be controlled by the remote UE, the relay UE, or a network entity. The remote UE may transmit or receive data with a network via the relay UE based on the relocation of the one or more session termination points.

The technology described herein reduces control-plane overloading by transferring UEs from the overloaded control plane to another available control plane. At a high level, the technology identifies when a control plane is overloaded, identifies other available control planes in a geographic area served by the overloaded control plane, and then identifies UEs for transfer using one or more criteria. Initially, a measure of control-plane performance for a control plane is received. Next, a determination is made that the control plane is overloaded by comparing the measure of control-plane performance to an overload threshold. When an overload condition exists for a control plane, then UEs with existing communication sessions using the control plane are identified for transfer.

A wireless communication system includes one or more base stations able to divide resources between multiple network operators sharing the base station. A shared base station is configured to monitor a contribution to the load on the base station associated with network operators sharing the base station resources and to provide the determined contribution to the load to one or more other base stations for use in load balancing between the base stations.

A method for selecting a serving cell by a user equipment (UE) to which the inter-site carrier aggregation (CA) technology is according to the intensity of a reception signal of each carrier wave is provided. However, in order to improve resource usage and a throughput of the entire cells, a method is performed in which a PCell and an SCell are selected considering the intensity of a reception signal and a load between cells, the SCell is activated, and loads of the PCell and the SCell are adjusted. The method can balance an inter-cell traffic load, and eventually, increase usage of the entirety of a network and improve a throughput.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a load balance method and relevant apparatuses to implement load balance between base stations in a communications network that includes an LTE base station. The method in an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining, by a radio resource management RRM server, load information reported by base stations, where the base stations include a Long Term Evolution LTE base station; determining an overloaded base station in the base stations; determining a target base station according to the load information, where the target base station is a base station to share a load of the overloaded base station; and instructing the overloaded base station and the target base station to perform load balance.

In a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) may include a first AP and a second AP, the first AP may operate in a first link, and the second AP may operate in a second link. A station (STA) MLD may receive BSS information related to the first and second links, in which the AP MLD operates, from the AP MLD through the first link. The BSS information may include information related to the number of single radio STAs operating in the first link and the number of single radio STAs operating in the second link. The STA MLD may determine a link, in which the STA MLD is to operate, on the basis of the BSS information.

This application provides a service traffic steering method and an apparatus, to improve user experience. The method includes: A first network device determines at least one second terminal device, where first quality of experience corresponding to a first service flow of the second terminal device does not meet target quality of experience corresponding to the first service flow of the second terminal device. The first network device determines a target radio access network device, where the target radio access network device meets the target quality of experience corresponding to the first service flow of the at least one second terminal device. The first network device connects the first service flow of the at least one second terminal device to the target radio access network device.