Ue positioning/location assisted conditional handover

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform:
• monitoring whether a source cell has configured a terminal and a target cell for a conditional handover of the terminal from the source cell to the target cell;
• estimating a handover delay period if the source cell configures the terminal and the target cell for the conditional handover, wherein the handover delay period indicates a time period for which, according to a prediction of a likely future movement of the terminal, the terminal will likely not perform the conditional handover to the target cell;
• and at least one of
• informing the target cell on the handover delay period;
• and
• checking whether the handover delay period is larger than a predefined threshold;
• and cancelling the conditional handover configuration of the terminal and the target cell if the handover delay period is longer than the predefined threshold.

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform:
• supervising whether a target cell is configured, by a source cell, for a conditional handover of a first terminal from the source cell to the target cell, wherein the configuring of the target cell for the conditional handover of the first terminal comprises reserving a resource of the target cell for the first terminal;
• monitoring whether an information on a handover delay period for the conditional handover is received from the source cell, wherein the handover delay period indicates a time period for which the first terminal will likely not perform the conditional handover to the target cell;
• controlling the resource of the target cell in accordance with the handover delay period if the target cell is configured for the conditional handover of the first terminal and the information on the handover delay period is received.

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform:
• monitoring whether a source cell configures a terminal and a target cell for a conditional handover of the terminal from the source cell to the target cell;
• estimating a handover delay period if the source cell configures the terminal and the target cell for the conditional handover, wherein the handover delay period indicates a time period for which, according to a prediction of a likely future movement of the terminal, the terminal will likely not perform the conditional handover to the target cell;
• supervising whether the source cell obtains an indication of an actual delay of the conditional handover;
• adapting the prediction based on the actual delay and the handover delay period if the source cell obtains the indication of the actual delay.