Enhanced mobility load balancing (MLB) with beam-specific handover

P Soldati, A Centonza, ILJ Da Silva - US Patent 11,902,846, 2024 - Google Patents
Embodiments include methods for beam-level mobility load balancing, MLB, in a radio
access network, RAN. Optionally, such methods include receiving (1810) measurement …

Reuse of mobility reference signals to perform radio link monitoring in a beam-based system

U Ugurlu, ILJ Da Silva, R Fan, P Ramachandra… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
An access node configures a user equipment, UE, to perform mobility management
measurements using at least a first subset of beam-formed reference signals and to perform …

Bearer count alignment during inter-rat handover

NE Tenny, A Meylan - US Patent 8,391,239, 2013 - Google Patents
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for bearer count alignment
during handover of a user equipment (UE) from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a …

Methods for controlling unauthorized aerial UEs

ZOU Zhenhua, M Bergström, LIN Xingqin… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
Exemplary embodiments include methods performed by a network node of a radio access
network (RAN). Such embodiments can include establishing a connection with a user …

Mobility procedures with hierarchical mobility

H Lee, HD Ly, GB Horn, JI Tingfang - US Patent 11,234,180, 2022 - Google Patents
Techniques are described herein for mobility procedures configured to maintain connectivity
with a device, such as a user equipment (UE), when the UE moves between single …

Beam selection for cellular access nodes

L Maggi, DK Nayak, S Kalyanasundaram - US Patent 11,425,591, 2022 - Google Patents
A solution for allocating N radio beam configurations to access nodes including, in some
embodiments, a method comprising storing a beam library defining a set of radio beam …

Link Adaption in Beam-Forming Radio Access Networks

V Garcia, N Jaldén - US Patent App. 16/759,624, 2020 - Google Patents
There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node (10, 100) in a radio access network,
the radio node (10, 100) being adapted for reception beamforming based on radio …

UE selection of contention-free and contention-based random access for handover

S Nagaraja, T Luo, MPJ WILSON… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods
for wireless communication. A communication system may include a user equipment (UE) …

Determining module and method performed therein for handling dual connectivity in a communication network

J Vikberg, G Hall, M Wahlqvist - US Patent 11,019,523, 2021 - Google Patents
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a determining module, for managing
dual connectivity, DC, in a communications network. The communications network …

Enhancements to mobility reference signals for radio link monitoring in a beam-based system

ILJ Da Silva, R Fan, P Ramachandra… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
An access node transmits, in a downlink signal having a series of subframes, a beam-
formed reference signal in subframes, where the beam-formed reference signals are …