Managing measurement gap configurations

A method in a first network node of a radio access network (RAN) for managing measurement gap information, wherein the first network node is a central unit (CU) of a distributed base station or a source base station in a handover procedure, and a second network node of the RAN is a distributed unit (DU) of the distributed base station or a target base station in the handover procedure, respectively, the method comprising:

• receiving an information element specifying a measurement gap capability of a user equipment (UE) in communication with the RAN;
• transmitting, to the second network node, an indication of the measurement gap capability;
• and
• receiving, from the second network node, an indication as to whether the second network node has generated a measurement gap configuration for the UE.

A first network node of a radio access network (RAN) comprising processing hardware, wherein the first network node is a distributed unit (DU) of a distributed base station or a target base station in a handover procedure, and a second network node of the RAN is a central unit (CU) of the distributed base station or a source base station in the handover procedure, and wherein the first network node is configured to:

• receive, from the second network node, an information element that specifies a measurement gap capability of a user equipment (UE) in communication with the RAN;
• determine, based on the information element, whether to generate a measurement gap configuration for the UE;
• and
• provide, to the second network node, an indication of whether the first network node generated the measurement gap configuration for the UE.