User equipment and method in a wireless communications network

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause a remote User Equipment (UE) for handling a path switch failure of a connection in a wireless communication network to perform operations comprising:

• detecting the path switch failure, which path switch failure relates to a failure to switch path from a first path to a first network node, to a second path to a second network node, wherein at least one path out of the first path and the second path, comprises an indirect link;
• upon detecting the path switch failure, continuing to apply a previous configuration for the connection that was used before a path switch was triggered;
• and
• during continuing to apply the previous configuration to recover from the path switch failure, triggering a recovery procedure to continue transmission, during which recovery procedure, the connection for the first path is kept, wherein the triggering the recovery procedure comprises triggering a procedure to establish a direct link with a third network node to continue the transmission and triggering a procedure to establish an indirect link, via a relay UE, with either the second network node or a third network node to continue the transmission.

A remote User Equipment (UE) configured to handle a path switch failure of a connection in a wireless communications network, wherein the remote UE is to:

• detect the path switch failure, which path switch failure is adapted to relate to a failure to switch path from a first path to a first network node, to a second path to a second network node, wherein at least one path out of the first path and the second path, is adapted to comprise an indirect link;
• upon detecting the path switch failure, continue to apply a previous configuration for the connection that was used before a path switch was triggered;
• and
• during continuing to apply the previous configuration to recover from the path switch failure, trigger a recovery procedure adapted to continue transmission, during which recovery procedure, the connection for the first path is kept, wherein the triggering the recovery procedure comprises triggering a procedure to establish a direct link with a third network node to continue the transmission-or and triggering a procedure to establish an indirect link, via a relay UE, with either the second network node or a third network node to continue the transmission.