Communications with non-terrestrial networks
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsVivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
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Abstract
A method for an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving a request to establish a connection from a communications device in a first cell; and in response to receiving the request, selecting a second cell to be a next serving cell for the communications device and transmitting an indication of an identity of the second cell to the communications device.
Claims18
A method for an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network, comprising:
- receiving a request to enter a connected mode from a communications device in a first cell;
- and
- in response to receiving the request,
- selecting, independently of a time at which cell reselection is to occur, a second cell to be a next serving cell for the communications device based on at least a direction of movement of the communications device, and
- transmitting an indication of an identity of the second cell to the communications device.
A method for a communications device in a wireless communications network, comprising:
- transmitting in a first cell a request to enter a connected mode to an infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network;
- transmitting at least a direction of movement of the communications device to the infrastructure equipment;
- and
- receiving an indication of an identity of a second cell to be a next serving cell for the communications device, the indication of the identity of the second cell transmitted the infrastructure equipment in response to receiving the request, is based on the direction of movement of the communications device, and is independent of a time at which cell reselection is to occur.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.