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US 12,593,257 B2Granted
Communication method and device and storage medium
AssigneeZte Corporation
InventorsZhuang Liu, Yin Gao, Dapeng Li
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Abstract
Provided are a communication method and device and a storage medium. A communication method applied to a first network element includes determining a target cell according to the received new radio (NR) light assistance information; and handing a first communication node over to the target cell or paging the first communication node in the target cell.
Claims20
A communication method, being applied to a central unit (CU) and comprising:
- determining a target cell according to received cell-related new radio (NR) light assistance information;
- and
- handing over a reduced capability (RedCAP) user equipment (UE) to the target cell or paging a RedCAP UE in the target cell;
- wherein before determining the target cell according to the received cell-related NR light assistance information, the method further comprises one of the following:
- receiving the cell-related NR light assistance information sent by a distributed unit (DU), wherein the DU and the CU belong to a same base station;
- receiving the cell-related NR light assistance information sent by a third communication node, wherein the third communication node is a base station, and the CU belongs to a base station different from the third communication node;
- or
- receiving the cell-related NR light assistance information sent by a DU and a third communication node.
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A communication method, being applied to a distributed unit (DU) and comprising:
- sending cell-related new radio (NR) light assistance information to a central unit (CU), wherein the cell-related NR light assistance information is configured to enable the CU to determine a target cell to hand over a reduced capability (RedCAP) user equipment (UE) to the target cell or to page a RedCAP UE in the target cell, and the DU and the CU belong to a same base station.
A base station, comprising a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU), wherein
- the CU is configured to perform a communication interaction among the DU, a reduced capability (RedCAP) user equipment (UE), other stations, and a core network;
- and
- the CU is further configured
- to perform the following:
- determining a target cell according to received cell-related new radio (NR) light assistance information;
- and
- handing over the RedCAP UE to the target cell or paging the RedCAP UE in the target cell;
- wherein before determining the target cell according to the received cell-related NR light assistance information, the CU is further configured to perform one of the following:
- receiving the cell-related NR light assistance information sent by the DU;
- receiving the cell-related NR light assistance information sent by a third communication node, wherein the third communication node is a different base station;
- or
- receiving the cell-related NR light assistance information sent by the DU and a third communication node.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.