Providing Conditional Configuration at an Early Opportunity
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorChih-Hsiang Wu
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Abstract
A method in a RAN is for providing, to a user equipment (UE), a conditional configuration which the UE is to apply when a network-specified condition is satisfied. The method includes determining that a suspended radio connection between the UE and the RAN is to be resumed, the radio connection associated with N cells (1302); obtaining the conditional configuration related to a candidate secondary cell to provide the UE with connectivity over multiple cells (1304); and providing the conditional configuration to the UE prior to the UE resuming the radio connection over at least N cells (1306).
Claims20
A method implemented in a radio access network (RAN) for providing, to a user equipment (UE), a conditional configuration which the UE is to apply when a network-specified condition is satisfied, the method comprising:
- determining that a suspended radio connection between the UE and the RAN is to be resumed;
- after the determining, obtaining the conditional configuration related to a candidate secondary cell to provide the UE with connectivity over multiple cells;
- and
- providing the obtained conditional configuration to the UE prior to the UE resuming the radio connection over at least two cells.
A base station implemented in a radio access network (RAN), the base station comprising processing hardware and configured to:
- determine that a suspended radio connection between a UE and the RAN is to be resumed;
- after the determining, obtaining a conditional configuration which the UE is to apply when a network-specified condition is satisfied to provide the UE with connectivity over multiple cells, the conditional configuration related to a candidate secondary cell;
- and
- providing the obtained conditional configuration to the UE prior to the UE resuming the radio connection over at least two cells.
A method implemented in a UE for obtaining a conditional configuration which the UE is to apply when a network-specified condition is satisfied, the method comprising:
- suspending a radio connection between the UE and a radio access network (RAN);
- transmitting, to the RAN, a request to resume the suspended radio connection;
- and
- receiving, from the RAN after transmitting the request to resume the suspended radio connection and prior to resuming the radio connection over at least two cells, the conditional configuration for establishing connectivity with the RAN over multiple cells.
A UE comprising processing hardware and configured to:
- suspend a radio connection between the UE and a radio access network (RAN);
- transmit, to the RAN, a request to resume the suspended radio connection;
- and
- receive, from the RAN after transmitting the request to resume the suspended radio connection and prior to resuming the radio connection over at least two cells, a conditional configuration for establishing connectivity with the RAN over multiple cells, which the UE is to apply when a network-specified condition is satisfied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.