Performing measurements for a handover procedure in a non-terrestrial network

A user equipment (UE) connected to a serving cell associated with a first satellite, the UE comprising:

• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions for performing measurements;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:
• receive a measurement configuration comprising a plurality of synchronization signal block (SSB) measurement timing configurations (SMTCs), wherein:
• a first SMTC in the plurality of SMTCs has a first set of parameters and a second SMTC of the plurality of SMTCs has a second set of parameters,
• the first SMTC and the second SMTC are associated with a non-terrestrial network (NTN), and
• the first and second sets of parameters have at least one parameter in common and one different parameter;
• receive a signal to perform a measurement procedure for a second cell associated with a second satellite;
• and
• perform the measurement procedure based on the received plurality of SMTCs, wherein:
• each of the first and second sets of parameters comprises a same duration of time that indicates an SMTC window within which at least one of an SSB or channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) is detectable by the UE to perform the measurement procedure, and
• each of the first and second sets of parameters further comprises a different offset value.