Techniques for improvement of voice over Wi-Fi to voice over cellular handovers

A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories and the one or more processors configured to:
• determine, during an active call on a first radio access technology (RAT), that a first condition for performing a handover from the first RAT to a second RAT is satisfied;
• determine that the second RAT would trigger a fallback to a third RAT after the handover from the first RAT to the second RAT;
• determine that a second condition for performing a handover from the third RAT to the first RAT is satisfied;
• and
• refrain from performing the handover from the first RAT to the second RAT based at least in part on the determination that the second RAT would trigger the fallback and the determination that the second condition for performing the handover from the third RAT to the first RAT is satisfied.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to:
• determine, during an active call on a first radio access technology (RAT), that a first condition for performing a handover from the first RAT to a second RAT is satisfied;
• determine that the second RAT would trigger a fallback to a third RAT after the handover from the first RAT to the second RAT;
• determine that a second condition for performing a handover from the third RAT to the first RAT is satisfied;
• and
• refrain from performing the handover from the first RAT to the second RAT based at least in part on the determination that the second RAT would trigger the fallback and the determination that the second condition for performing the handover from the third RAT to the first RAT is satisfied.

An apparatus, comprising:

• means for determining, during an active call on a first radio access technology (RAT), that a first condition for performing a handover from the first RAT to a second RAT is satisfied;
• means for determining that the second RAT would trigger a fallback to a third RAT after the handover from the first RAT to the second RAT;
• means for determining that a second condition for performing a handover from the third RAT to the first RAT is satisfied;
• and
• means for refraining from performing the handover from the first RAT to the second RAT based at least in part on the determination that the second RAT would trigger the fallback and the determination that the second condition for performing the handover from the third RAT to the first RAT is satisfied.