A wireless terminal comprises receiver circuitry and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive a message. The message comprises one or more conditional handover configurations; at least one indication; and, at least one triggering condition; each of the one or more conditional handover configurations comprising at least one identity of a candidate target cell, the at least one indication indicating whether or not the message is provided as full configuration. The processor circuitry is configured to: store the one or more conditional handover configurations and the at least one indication; perform a handover to a target cell; and determine validity of the one or more conditional handover configurations based on the indication upon or after performing the handover.

A random access method including receiving, by a user equipment, a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message from a first network device, where the RRC connection reconfiguration message is included in a first message sent by a second network device to the first network device, and where the RRC connection reconfiguration message indicates a primary serving cell of the second network device for the user equipment, and further indicates an active bandwidth part (BWP) in the primary serving cell, and the method further including initiating, by the user equipment, a random access procedure on the active BWP.

A random access method and device. The method includes receiving, by user equipment, a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message from a first network device, the RRC connection reconfiguration message indicating a primary serving cell of the second network device for a user equipment, an active uplink bandwidth part (BWP) in the primary serving cell, and an active downlink BWP in the primary serving cell, the RRC connection reconfiguration message includes an uplink BWP identifier indicating the active uplink BWP and a downlink BWP identifier indicating the active downlink BWP, the uplink BWP identifier corresponds to the active uplink BWP, the downlink BWP identifier corresponds to the active downlink BWP, and initiating, by the user equipment, a random access procedure to the second network device on the active uplink BWP and the active downlink BWP.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for handover optimization using time sensitive communication assistance information. The method may include, receiving, from a network element, a handover request message or a context message. At least one of the handover request message or the context message may include time sensitive communication assistance information. The method may also include at least one of performing an admission control procedure based on the time sensitive communication assistance information, and scheduling data transmission with a user equipment based on the time sensitive communication assistance information.

The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for providing an AM policy for a UE in a wireless communication system. The disclosure is applicable to apply a consistent policy to a UE in a system in which 4G and 5G networks co-exist. According to the disclosure, a BS in a wireless communication system may include a transceiver, and at least one controller coupled to the transceiver. The at least one controller may be configured to determine handover for a UE based on a communication state of the UE, transmit a handover request message for the UE to an AMF, receive a handover command for the UE from the AMF in response to transmitting the handover request message, and perform a handover procedure with the UE. The handover request message may include information related to a rule used to select a network and a frequency applied to the UE.

A method includes a first access network device that sends first indication information to a second access network device. The first indication information indicates information about a current active BWP and/or transmission rate information of a terminal device on the first access network device. The second access network device determines information about a first-time active BWP and/or BWP configuration information of the terminal device on the second access network device based on the first indication information. The method may be used to enable the second access network device to determine the appropriate information about the first-time active BWP and/or the appropriate BWP configuration information of the terminal device on the second access network device. In this way, service interruption caused by switching of an active BWP is reduced, and/or service interruption caused by changing of a BWP configuration is reduced.

This application provides a method for configuring assistance information and a communications apparatus. A first network device sends a path switch request message to an access and mobility management function (AMF), where the path switch request message is used to request for switching least one radio bearer (RB) of a terminal device from a second network device to the first network device. The first network device receives a path switch request response message from the AMF. The first network device determines, based on the path switch request response message, first burst arrival time at which a downlink quality of service QoS flow arrives at an ingress of the first network device within a first periodicity, where the first burst arrival time is used for downlink scheduling.

Embodiments of this application provide a node handover method, in which a source donor node sends a handover request message to a target donor node, where the handover request message includes context information of an IAB node and context information of at least one terminal device. The source donor node receives a handover response message sent by the target donor node, where the handover response message includes an identifier of an accepted terminal device in the at least one terminal device and/or an identifier of a rejected terminal device in the at least one terminal device.

Methods and systems are provided for signal offloading in an mmWave environment in the event of high fading. The methods and systems include one or more mmWave nodes that are each configured to wirelessly communicate with a user device in a geographic service area and a Wi-Fi access point configured to wirelessly communicate with the user device. The methods and systems determine that the user device has detected a fading measurement corresponding to an mmWave transmitted by one of the one or more mmWave nodes is above a threshold. In response to the fading measurement being above the threshold, the methods and systems redirect a control signal of the user device through the Wi-Fi access point to the one or more mmWave nodes. Accordingly, the user device transmit data through the Wi-Fi access point to the one or more mmWave nodes.

A method for processing a slice service is provided. The method is applied to a first device and includes: receiving slice policy information for at least one of a service and a terminal; and determining a slice policy for the at least one of the service and terminal based on the slice policy information. The slice policy is used to determine a slice configuration of the first device for the at least one of the service and the terminal.