Conditional handover in wireless networks

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions to configure a source base station (SBS) for conditional handover between the SBS and a target base station (TBS) in a wireless network, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the SBS to:

• encode measurement configuration information for transmission to a user equipment (UE), the measurement configuration information indicating a measurement event and a first threshold associated with the measurement event wherein the first threshold is for triggering measurement reporting;
• decode a measurement report from the UE, the measurement report triggered based on the first threshold associated with the measurement event;
• and
• encode radio resource control (RRC) signaling for transmission to the UE, the RRC signaling including a conditional handover command for handover from the SBS to the TBS, the conditional handover command associated with a second threshold for the measurement event, the second threshold being higher than the first threshold.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions to configure a user equipment (UE) for conditional handover between a source base station (SBS) and a target base station (TBS) in a wireless network, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the UE to:

• decode measurement configuration information from the SBS, the measurement configuration information indicating a measurement event and a first threshold associated with the measurement event to trigger measurement reporting;
• encode a measurement report for transmission to the SBS, wherein the measurement report is triggered based on the first threshold associated with the measurement event;
• decode signaling from the SBS, the RRC signaling including a conditional handover command, the conditional handover command associated with a second threshold for the measurement event, the second threshold being higher than the first threshold;
• and
• perform a handover from the SBS to the TBS based on the conditional handover command after detecting that the measurement event satisfies the second threshold.