Embodiments include systems and methods that may be performed by a processor of a wireless device for managing a communication link with a communication network. Various embodiments may include determining whether a cause of a detected physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) error in a downlink communication from a base station is an out of coverage condition, and initiating an autonomous handover from the base station to a second base station in response to determining that the cause of the PDSCH error is an out of coverage condition.

According to some embodiments, a wireless device receives (1020) a discovery burst from a network node (115). The same discovery burst includes multiple signals within at least one subframe, each of the multiple signals having one or more associated measurement functions. At least one of the multiple signals is received with multiple repetitions within the same discovery burst and two or more repetitions of the same type of signal can be combined by the wireless device. The wireless device performs (1024) at least one radio measurement based at least in part on a particular one of the signals of the discovery burst. The performed at least one radio measurement corresponds to a measurement function associated with the particular signal of the discovery burst.

An apparatus comprising means for performing: receiving, while connected to a first cell, preparation information for preparing the apparatus for a conditional handover of the apparatus to at least one other cell; receiving, from the first cell, a message, wherein the message causes the apparatus to transition from a connected state to an inactive state; receiving, from the first cell, information of a release condition; when it is determined that the release condition is met, sending a release indication and releasing the preparation information from the apparatus.

Embodiments of a system and method for providing DRX enhancements in LTE systems are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a system control module is provided for controlling communications via a communications interface. A processor is coupled to the system control module and is arranged to implement an inactivity timer and an on-duration timer for determining an active time for monitoring subframes on the physical downlink control channel for control signals, the processor further monitoring subframes after the active time.

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for enhanced conditional handover (CHO). An operation method of a base station may comprise: receiving a measurement report message from a terminal; transmitting a CHO request message to one or more candidate target cells; receiving a CHO request ACK message from the one or more candidate target cells; and transmitting an RRC reconfiguration message including CHO status report configuration information to the terminal, wherein the CHO status report configuration information requests transmission of information for determining a target cell to which terminal is likely to be handed over among the one or more candidate target cells.

A system described herein may provide for the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning (“AI/ML”) techniques to generate models for various locations or regions (e.g., sectors) associated with one or more radio access networks (“RANs”) of a wireless network. The system may determine Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) or other attributes that are of particular relevance or importance for a given sector model, and may determine actions to perform with respect to particular sectors in order to enhance performance according to the KPIs that are of particular relevance to a sector model determined with respect to the particular sectors.

In a method in a user equipment, UE, in a communications network, of determining whether to perform a handover procedure from a first network node to a second network node, a location of the UE is provided as input to a model stored on the UE, the model having been trained using a machine learning process to predict conditions on the second network node in the communications network based on the location of the UE. A prediction of conditions on the second network node at the provided location of the UE is provided by the model. The received predicted conditions are then used to determine whether to perform a handover procedure.

A switching method and a device in a sidelink relay architecture are provided. The method is performed by a remote terminal and includes: receiving a first message from a network device, where the first message includes switching information; and performing, according to the switching information, switching from a source link to a target link, where at least one of the source link and the target link is a relay link.

A method includes receiving cell reselection information from a radio access network device. The cell reselection information includes an identifier of at least one carrier frequency, an identifier of a network slice supported by each of the at least one carrier frequency, and priority information corresponding to the identifier of the network slice that is information of a specific service type of the network slice or a network slice set identifier corresponding to the network slice. The method further includes in response to the terminal device performing cell reselection, selecting a cell on a carrier frequency of the network slice supported by the terminal device as a reselected to-be-camped cell based on the identifier of the at least one carrier frequency, the identifier of the network slice supported by each of the at least one carrier frequency, and priority information corresponding to the identifier of the network slice.

A network switching method includes determining, by a terminal device, a second signal corresponding to a second network according to a first signal corresponding to a first network; and measuring, by the terminal device, the second signal. Each of the first signal and the second signal includes at least one of a reference signal or a synchronization signal.