Cells sharing rrc layer

Abstract

A method is disclosed comprising: transmitting, to a network entity, at least one measurement report, the network entity providing a serving cell and a target cell for the apparatus, wherein the serving cell and the target cell share at least a protocol configuration of a radio resource control layer; receiving, from the network entity an indication of a handover configuration for a handover of the apparatus to the target cell; performing, based on receiving the indication of the handover configuration, the handover according to the handover configuration. Further, a respective apparatus is disclosed, as well as a network entity and core network entity and respective methods performed by the same.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.